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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 5, Page 1024-1037, September 2024.Agricultural extension is recognized as an important pathway for generating changes in individual farmers' practices and therefore broader patterns of production. In the United States, historical research has implicated extension work in transformations that privileged White farmers and wealthier operations over other producers and that fostered the ...
Helen Anne Curry
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Pest Management Science, Volume 80, Issue 4, Page 1692-1701, April 2024.Pepper weevil were treated with gamma radiation at the pupal stage to investigate its impact on reproduction and quality. Male and female pepper weevils irradiated with 110 Gy as late‐stage pupae were effectively sterilized and also had decreased fecundity, longevity and spontaneous flight activity.
Jacob V Basso +2 more
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Commodity risk assessment of Petunia spp. and Calibrachoa spp. unrooted cuttings from Kenya
EFSA Journal, Volume 22, Issue 4, April 2024.Abstract The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to evaluate the probability of entry of pests (likelihood of pest freedom at entry), including both regulated and non‐regulated pests, associated with unrooted cuttings of the genera Petunia and Calibrachoa produced under physical isolation in Kenya. The relevance of any pest for
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FACTORS INFLUENCING WEST TENNESSEE FARMERS' WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR A BOLL WEEVIL ERADICATION PROGRAM [PDF]
Data from a survey were used to evaluate Tennessee farmers' willingness to pay for the boll weevil eradication program. Producer experience, boll weevil control costs, and attitudes about boll weevil damage and insecticide usage after the program were ...
Collins, Rebecca L. +3 more
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Reproductive Potential of Overwintering, F1, and F2 Female Boll Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas [PDF]
, 2007 The feeding and oviposition activity of overwintering boll weevils, Anthonomus grandis grandis (Boheman), and seasonal fluctuations in development, survival, and reproduction of progeny of overwintering and first- and second-generation boll weevil ...
Armstrong, J. S. +6 more
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Fungal seed treatments of cotton affect boll weevil development
Pest Management Science, Volume 80, Issue 3, Page 1566-1576, March 2024.Fewer boll weevil larvae hatched and fewer adults emerged from fungal‐treated plants. In addition, the developmental time from oviposition to adult emergence was delayed in the fungal‐treated plants. Abstract BACKGROUND Nonpathogenic fungi associated with plants can enhance plant defenses against stress factors, including herbivory. This study assessed
Janaina C. S. Cunha +4 more
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Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 1999 Com o objetivo de obter linhagens resistentes ao bicudo-do-algodoeiro (Anthonomus grandis Boheman), a Embrapa-Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Algodão vem testando progênies oriundas de raças primitivas de algodoeiro herbáceo (Gossypium hirsutum L ...
Francisco José Correia Farias +3 more
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Commodity risk assessment of Petunia spp. and Calibrachoa spp. unrooted cuttings from Guatemala
EFSA Journal, Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2024.Abstract The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to evaluate the probability of entry of pests (likelihood of pest freedom at entry), including both, regulated and non‐regulated pests, associated with unrooted cuttings of the genera Petunia and Calibrachoa produced under physical isolation in Guatemala.
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Storage and Behavior of Plant and Diet-Fed Adult Cereal Leaf Beetle, Oulema Melanopus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) [PDF]
, 2017 The univoltine life cycle of the cereal leaf beetle Oulema melanopus (L.) in Michigan (Castro et al. 1965) is similar to that reported by Venturi (1942) in Europe. Adults emerge from pupal cells in the soil in mid-June to early July, feed voraciously for
Cobb, David L +3 more
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Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 2007 This study discusses the dispersal of Anthonomus grandis Boheman, the cotton boll weevil, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia, exploring the ecological and physiological factors that have made the dispersal and establishment of this insect in ...
Teodoro Stadler, Micaela Buteler
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