Did you have any experiences on effect of leaf anatomy/ structure on feeding of the phloem feeding leaf hoppers/insects?

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Eugene Sosnovsky

Dear Gayani,

You may check these two papers for the effect of leaf anatomy on various sucking herbivore guilds, including phloem-feeders:

https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/77/1/43/2639778

Article Sucking herbivore assemblage composition on greenhouse Ficus...

I could share the full-text of the last paper privately if you need (though it does not deal with leafhoppes specifically).

Gayani Chanchala

Dear sir,

I have found the first paper. Thank you for sharing it . It includes lot of information I have searching for.

Please share your paper if it is possible. It will be much great full.

Shujaul Mulk Khan

I think it can be linked with number of stomata and size of stomata as wll!