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Pest Management & Crop Development [PDF]
The Bulletin provides timely information about pests and crops throughout Illinois. Our objective is to keep you informed about pest problems and crop development issues and to keep you current regarding the most effective, economic, and environmentally ...
Integrated Pest Management +2 more
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Armyworm (Spodoptera litura F.) as a polyfagous insect is a key pest of either food crops or estate crops. The larva often attack leaves of beans, cereal, shallot, cabbage, cotton, tobacco, and sugarcane.
Hamdani Hamdani, Dedi Supriyatdi
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The mean critical thermal maxima varied significantly across species with Delottococcus aberiae showing the highest heat tolerance, whereas Planococcus citri recorded the lowest. All mealybug species exhibited substantial contractions in climatically suitable areas by 2100, with Pseudococcus calceolariae recording the greatest proportional decline ...
Reyard Mutamiswa +5 more
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Sugar and ethanol production process from sugarcane
Sugarcane has been grown for centuries in Brazil aiming to sugar production and, in the last decades, to ethanol production. The sugar production steps can be divided into two groups: preparation and juice boiling, and crystallization.
Contiero, Jonas [UNESP] +4 more
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A Comparative Analysis of the Equity Outcomes in Three Sugarcane–Ethanol Systems [PDF]
This article identifies equity outcomes associated with three biofuel systems in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Guatemala. Acknowledging that winners and losers are socially and politically generated, the article identifies some of the factors behind the ...
Blaber-Wegg, Tina +8 more
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Identification of Diatraea spp. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) based on cytochrome oxidase II.
Diatraea spp. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) are a group of insects that are agriculture pests in many economically relevant crops such as sugarcane, sorghum, corn and rice.
Gloria Patricia Barrera +7 more
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ADDITIVE VERSUS PROPORTIONAL PEST DAMAGE FUNCTIONS: WHY ECOLOGY MATTERS [PDF]
Economic analyses of pests typically assume damage is either additively separable from pest free yield or proportional to it. This paper describes the ecological assumptions required for additive and proportional damage functions to demonstrate that both
Mitchell, Paul D.
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The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, is a major migratory polyphagous insect pest of various crops. The essential nutrient and mineral profile of the host plants determines the feeding fitness of herbivorous insects.
Muhammad Saqib Ajmal +5 more
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Towards Reduced Pesticide Use for Cereal Crops in Asia [PDF]
Several opportunities are available for dramatically reducing the use of agrochemicals in Asian cereal crop production. The first section of this paper summarizes past trends and future prospects for pesticide use in Asia for the three major cereal crops:
Pingali, Prabhu L., Gerpacio, Roberta V.
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The insect pest complex and related problems of lowland rice cultivation in South Sulawesi, Indonesia [PDF]
CHAPTER 1.The Department of Entomology of the Research Institute for Agriculture at Maros is concerned with insect pests of food crops, and serves the needs of farmers, most of them living near subsistance level, and of extension workers.South Sulawesi ...
van Halteren, P., Halteren, P., van
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