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Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.We applied three thiamethoxam spray treatments to buckwheat border strips: control (no nearby spray), drift (adjacent peach trees directly sprayed) and direct spray (buckwheat and peaches directly sprayed). Drift‐treated buckwheat received about 1.4% the amount of thiamethoxam as direct‐spray buckwheat. This amount has no lethal effects on parasitoids,
Emma O. Waltman, Anne L. Nielsen
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Evaluation of fungal isolates as possible biocontrol agents against Striga hermonthica
Journal of Crop Protection, 2014 Striga hermonthica is a parasitic weed which largely constrains maize and sorghum production in Western Kenya. The weed mostly invades small scale farms and depending on severity, it may cause damage ranging from 10% to complete crop failure thereby ...
Victor Kagot +4 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 Broomrape weeds (Orobanche and Phelipanche spp.) are root holoparasites that feed off a wide range of important crops. Among them, Orobanche crenata attacks legumes complicating their inclusion in cropping systems along the Mediterranean area and West ...
Monica Fernandez-Aparicio +2 more
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Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.Pollinator‐targeted annual flower strips increase abundances of pollinators but also natural enemies and herbivores. Natural enemies and herbivores disperse in a taxon‐specific manner into nearby crops. Pest control by ground‐dwellers slightly increases in crop areas near the flower strips.
Neus Rodríguez‐Gasol +6 more
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Impact of infestation by parasitic weeds on rice farmers' productivity and technical efficiency in sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
, 2017 Rice production is crucial for food security and income generation in sub-Saharan Africa. However, productivity and technical efficiency levels in rice production systems are severely constrained by biotic constraints such as parasitic weeds.
Adegbola, P.Y. +4 more
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LONG-RUN STRIGA CONTROL BY SUBSISTENCE FARMERS IN MALI [PDF]
A dynamic programming model is developed to identify barriers to the adoption of long-run control programs for the parasitic weed Striga. The model is applied to Sirakorola in northwestern Mali.
Fofana, Makan +3 more
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Yearly reports of biodiversity data 2018_2019 [PDF]
, 2019 Dynamic sod mulching and use of recycled amendments to increase biodiversity, resilience and sustainability of intensive organic fruit orchards and ...
Dzhuvinov, Vasiliy +9 more
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A review of the influence of root-associating fungi and root exudates on the success of invasive plants [PDF]
, 2012 Plant-fungal interactions are essential for understanding the distribution and abundance of plants species. Recently, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) partners of non-indigenous invasive plants have been hypothesized to be a critical factor ...
Bongard, Cindy
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Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.In this study, we investigated the effects of blueberry domestication on the oviposition behavior and performance of Ganaspis kimorum, a parasitoid of Drosophila suzukii. Domestication of blueberries reduced the oviposition‐searching behavior of the parasitoid but enhanced parasitoid performance, including offspring performance. Additionally, blueberry
Yahel Ben‐Zvi, Cesar Rodriguez‐Saona
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Recent research progress in combatting root parasitic weeds
Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment, 2018 The obligate root parasitic Orobanchaceae plants Striga, Orobanche and Phelipanche spp. parasitize economically important crops, vegetables and oil plants. They are the most devastating agricultural weed pests worldwide.
Hiroaki Samejima, Yukihiro Sugimoto
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