Companion planting with French marigolds protects tomato plants from glasshouse whiteflies through the emission of airborne limonene

Niall J. A. Conboy; Thomas McDaniel; Adam Ormerod; David George; Angharad M. R. Gatehouse; Ellie Wharton; Paul Donohoe; Rhiannon Curtis; Colin R. Tosh

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0213071

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Companion planting with French marigolds protects tomato plants from glasshouse whiteflies through the emission of airborne limonene

Niall J. A. Conboy ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Niall J. A. Conboy, Thomas McDaniel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: n.conboy2@ncl.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2028-6248

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Thomas McDaniel ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Niall J. A. Conboy, Thomas McDaniel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3427-5697

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Adam Ormerod,

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Stockbridge Technology Centre, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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David George,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Stockbridge Technology Centre, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Angharad M. R. Gatehouse,

Roles Supervision

Affiliation School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
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Ellie Wharton,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
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Paul Donohoe,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
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Rhiannon Curtis,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Northumbria University, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
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Colin R. Tosh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
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Companion planting with French marigolds protects tomato plants from glasshouse whiteflies through the emission of airborne limonene

Niall J. A. Conboy,
Thomas McDaniel,
Adam Ormerod,
David George,
Angharad M. R. Gatehouse,
Ellie Wharton,
Paul Donohoe,
Rhiannon Curtis,
Colin R. Tosh

Published: March 1, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213071

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