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Original Article

Antioxidant Enzyme Level Response to Prooxidant Allelochemicals in Larvae of the Southern Armyworm Moth, Spodoptera Eridania

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Pages 127-133 | Received 17 May 1989, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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