True and False Foodplants of \u3ci\u3eCallosamia Promethea\u3c/i\u3e (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) in Southern Michigan [PDF]
, 2017 A survey in 1980 of the associations of over 400 cocoons of Callosamia promethea Drury in vegetation along and adjacent to southern Michigan roadsides gave evidence for seven species of true larval foodplants (not including two others known in the area ...
Hansen, Michael K +2 more
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REACCIÓN DE GENOTIPOS DE ÑAME (Dioscorea spp) A LA ANTRACNOSIS (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides)
Temas Agrarios, 2013 El ñame (Dioscorea spp) es afectado por diferentes patógenos, entre los que se destaca Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, agente causal de la antracnosis. Esta enfermedad reduce la eficiencia fotosintética de la planta y ocasiona pérdidas en la producción ...
Yuli P. Mendez +4 more
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Relationship between wild and cultivated yams : Case study of yam domestication in Benin [PDF]
, 2006 The Dioscorea cayenensis - Dioscorea rotundata species complex is the most widely cultivated yam in West Africa. It has been described as deriving from wild types belonging to the species Dioscorea abyssinica and D.
Agbangla, Clément +4 more
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Pharmacognostical and Analytical Standards of Dioscorea Esculenta Burkill.
Journal of Research in Traditional Medicine, 2017 Background: Dioscoria species is a Kanda Shakha (tuberous vegetable) useful as vegetable and grows abundantly around Udupi district, Karnataka, India. Dioscorea esculenta Burkill is one of the rare and costly tuber cultivated in very few areas of Udupi ...
Tapankumar H. Gandhi +4 more
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PlantsPotyvirus diseases are one of the main challenges facing the production of yam (Dioscorea spp.). The objective of this study was to identify the potyviruses present in the Dioscorea spp.
José Efraín González Ramírez +11 more
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Towards a better characterization of endogenous badnavirus sequences of yams (Dioscorea spp.) [PDF]
, 2013 Yams, and more generallytubers, are very important crops for food security in tropical and subtropical countries.They are propagated vegetativelytherefore they accumulate viruses over long periods of time.
Filloux, Denis +7 more
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The economic importance and control of vertebrate pests of graminaceous crops with particular reference to rice (Oryza sativa) in Nigeria--a review [PDF]
, 1986 Graminaceous crops, especially rice (Orzya sativa), have within the last years in Nigeria, surged to be of utmost economic importance, not in improving the economy but in depleting the country of fast foreign exchange. Attempts at improving and massively
Akande, Modupe
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The practices of yam domestication in Benin and Nigeria [PDF]
, 2008 Guinea yams (Dioscorea cayenensis Lam. D. rotundata Poir) have been described several times as resulting from a process of domestication of wild yams of the Enantiophyllum section, initially by Burkill (1939) and by Miege (1952) and later, on a more ...
Dossou, A.R. +2 more
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Entwicklung alternativer Zusatzstoffe für Bioprodukte, die der Verbesserung von Mehlmischungen für Back- und Teigwaren dienen, durch die Verwendung der Yamswurzel Dioscorea batatas [PDF]
, 2011 Ziel des Projektes ist die Entwicklung ökologischer Zutaten aus der Yamswurzel Dioscorea batatas. Durch die Verwendung der D. batatas können Mehlmischungen in ihren sensorischen, physiologischen und gesundheitlichen Eigenschaften aufgewertet werden.
Hensel, Oliver
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Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de BotánicaIntroducción y objetivos: Dioscorea es el género más diverso morfológicamente, más rico en especies y con mayor distribución de la familia Dioscoreaceae.
Patricia N. Asesor +2 more
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