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Abundance and diversity of cotton insect pests under repeatedly cultivated cotton fields of Tanzania [PDF]

Frontiers in Insect Science
IntroductionCotton production in Tanzania is facing significant challenges due to insect pests that cause extensive damages to the crop. The most notable pests include the African bollworm (Heliothis armigera Hubner), Spiny bollworm (Earias biplaga ...
Madama Benjamin, Gration M. Rwegasira
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Insect and Mite Integrated Pest Management in Florida Cotton

EDIS, 2017
  Insect and mite pests of cotton feed on cotton roots, leaves, stems, and fruit and reduce plant health and productivity, and, subsequently, cotton crop yields.
Joseph E. Funderburk, Nicole Casuso, Norman C. Leppla, Michael Donahoe   +3 more
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COTGAME: Cotton Insect Pest Management Simulation Game [PDF]

Applied Engineering in Agriculture, 1988
An interactive version of the Cotton and Insect Management (CIM) model was developed to aid individuals in improving their insect pest management decision making skills.
Akbay, Kunter S., Brown, L. G., McClendon, R.W.   +2 more
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Characterization of the spectrum of insecticidal activity of Cry1B.3, Cry1Da_7, and Vip3Cb1 proteins produced by lepidopteran-protected MON 89151 cotton [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The spectrum of insecticidal activity of the Cry1B.3, Cry1Da_7, and Vip3Cb1 proteins targeting lepidopteran insect pests produced by MON 89151 cotton was characterized with microbially-produced protein-incorporated diet bioassays against selected insect ...
Carlos J. Esquivel, Frankie Stubbins, Harit K. Bal, Jianguo Tan, Brent Werner, Steven Michael Reyna, Jennifer Fridley, Geoffrey Mueller, Yu Liu-Gontarek, Bingyao Li, Chen Meng, Christopher R. Brown, Tianbo Xu, Steven L. Levine, Yong Yin, Chitvan Khajuria   +15 more
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Genotyping by sequencing reveals a chromosome A04 QTL governing whitefly resistance in upland cotton [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Cotton plants utilize physical defenses such as trichomes and leaf characteristics to deter insect pests and environmental stressors, safeguarding their growth and productivity. Cotton insect pests such as whiteflies, aphids, jassids and boll weevils not
Obad Ul Rahman, Syed Bilal Hussain, Muhammad Javed, Sarmad Frogh Arshad, Zulqurnain Khan, Muhammad Usman, Hasan Junaid Arshad, Muhammad Anwar   +7 more
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Phytophagous insects in cotton crop residues during the fallow period in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil [PDF]

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2018
: The objective of this work was to analyze the faunistic composition of the insect pests that occur during the fallow period in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) crop residues in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. The study sites were the municipalities
Rafael Azevedo da Silva, Paulo Eduardo Degrande, Carlos Eduardo Carducci Gomes, Ellen Patricia de Souza, Mateus Fuchs Leal   +4 more
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Plant age, crop stage and surrounding habitats: their impact on sucking pests and predators complex in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) field plots in arid climate at district Layyah, Punjab, Pakistan

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2021
Sucking pests are major threat to cotton field crop which cause unbearable losses to the crop yield. Aim of the current study was to record seasonal dynamics of major sucking insect pests including whitefly, jassid, thrips and their natural arthropod ...
A. Nadeem, H. M. Tahir, A. A. Khan
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Insect resistance management in Bacillus thuringiensis cotton by MGPS (multiple genes pyramiding and silencing)

Journal of Cotton Research, 2020
The introduction of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton has reduced the burden of pests without harming the environment and human health. However, the efficacy of Bt cotton has decreased due to field-evolved resistance in insect pests over time.
Muhammad Mubashar ZAFAR, Abdul RAZZAQ, Muhammad Awais FAROOQ, Abdul REHMAN, Hina FIRDOUS, Amir SHAKEEL, Huijuan MO, Maozhi REN   +7 more
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Transcriptome Analysis of a Cotton Cultivar Provides Insights into the Differentially Expressed Genes Underlying Heightened Resistance to the Devastating Verticillium Wilt

Cells, 2021
Cotton is an important economic crop worldwide. Verticillium wilt (VW) caused by Verticillium dahliae (V. dahliae) is a serious disease in cotton, resulting in massive yield losses and decline of fiber quality.
He Zhu, Jian Song, Nikhilesh Dhar, Ying Shan, Xi-Yue Ma, Xiao-Lei Wang, Jie-Yin Chen, Xiao-Feng Dai, Ran Li, Zi-Sheng Wang   +9 more
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Effects of transgenic Cry1Ac + CpTI cotton on non-target mealybug pest Ferrisia virgata and its predator Cryptolaemus montrouzieri [PDF]

, 2014
Recently, several invasive mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) have rapidly spread to Asia and have become a serious threat to the production of cotton including transgenic cotton.
De Clercq, Patrick, Deng, Congshuang, He, Yunyu, Liu, Ping, Pang, Hong, Wu, Hongsheng, Xie, Jiaqin, Zang, Yuhong   +7 more
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