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High-altitude migration of Heteroptera in Britain [PDF]
, 2013 Heteroptera caught during day and night sampling at a height of 200 m above ground at Cardington, Bedfordshire, UK, during eight summers (1999, 2000, and 2002-2007) were compared to high-altitude catches made over the UK and North Sea from the 1930s to ...
Chapman, Jason W. +2 more
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Agronomy Journal, Volume 116, Issue 2, Page 630-660, March/April 2024.Abstract Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.) is an important staple crop cultivated in over 100 countries, and the storage roots and vines provide food for humans and livestock. Sweetpotato consumption and demand for its value‐added products have increased significantly in the last two decades and have led to new cultivar development, expansion in acreage,
Justin George +16 more
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Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, 2022 Background Wheat is one of the main food for around 2 billion people worldwide. Among the biological stressors, Eurygaster integriceps Puton is a damaging insect in wheat and barley fields, which harms them both quantitatively (by overwintered adults ...
Mahdi Alizadeh +4 more
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Physiological Entomology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 1-13, March 2024.Aestivating M. diploterus has shown an increase in thermal tolerance as it progresses into and through its aestivation cycle (from November to June). Examination of physiological changes for survival was investigated by examining the insects' biochemical compositional changes as well as heat shock protein changes that occur over time.
R. Smit, L. G. Neven, S. A. Johnson
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Potential of intercropping for management of some arthropod and nematode pests of leafy vegetables in Kenya [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural Sciences (Belgrade), 2015 African leafy vegetables (ALVs) play an important role as income and food security crops in many households in Kenya. However, their potential in alleviating poverty and ensuring household food and nutrition security has not been fully exploited.
Linguya Kimaru S. +3 more
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Virulence determination of Beauveria bassiana isolates on a predatory hemipteran, Andrallus spinidens Fabricius (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) [PDF]
, 2015 Virulence of the two isolates of Beauveria bassiana, BB2 and AM-118, were evaluated on adults of a predatory hemipteran, Andrallus spinidens Fabricius by conidial bioassay and enzymatic activities.
Firouzbakht, H. +3 more
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Biological parameters of the egg parasitoid Trissolcus grandis (Hym.: Scelionidae) on Eurygaster integriceps (Hem.: Scutelleridae) [PDF]
نامه انجمن حشرهشناسی ایران, 2011 Trissolcus grandis Thomson is a solitary egg parasitoid of Sunn pest, Eurygaster integriceps Puton. Although widely distributed, it has often been overlooked in field surveys. Our objectives were to develop an efficient rearing technique for T.
B. L. Parker, M. Amir-Maafi
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Los Chinches de los cereales en Cataluña (Insecta, Heteroptera): algunos aspectos de su biología [PDF]
, 2008 Les xinxes dels cereals (Aelia sp., Eurygaster sp.) presents a Catalunya poden esdevenir plaga. La nostra investigació de camp pretenia establir les espècies presents, la seva fenologia i preferències pel que fa a la varietat de blat, la zona del camp i ...
Goula Goula, Marta +2 more
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Searching for wheat resistance to aphids and wheat bulb fly in the historical Watkins and Gediflux wheat collections [PDF]
, 2017 Insect pests can reduce wheat yield by direct feeding and transmission of plant viruses. Here we report results from laboratory and field phenotyping studies on a wide range of wheat, including landraces from the Watkins collection deriving from ...
Bansal +31 more
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Survey of Nematodes on Banana in Hawai'i, and Methods Used for Their Control [PDF]
, 2009 Spiral, burrowing, reniform, root-knot, and lesion nematodes are found on banana roots in Hawaii. Heavy infestations can cause significant yield reductions.
Hooks, Cerruti R.R., Wang, Koon-Hui
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