Download or read book Insect Pests of Tropical Food Legumes written by S. R. Singh and published by . This book was released on 1990-12-11 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work collates the information on the advances made in the control of pests of tropical food legumes, namely the cowpea, soybean, groundnut, pigeon pea and other beans. Contributors are entomologists from the IITA, the International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and researchers working in Africa, Latin America and Asia. An introduction from the USDA covers the general morphology, ecosystems, regions, distributions and uses of the crops. Chapters discuss field and storage pests, examining the taxonomy, identification, biology and bionomics, geographical distribution, status, damage symptoms and control measures for each pest covered. Also features a chapter on virus vestors and transmission of viruses and suggests strategies for future control and management of insect pests.

Download or read book Agromyzid Flies of Some Native Legume Crops in Java written by Pieter Goot and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disease and insect pest problems of the indigenous secondary crops have not received adequate attention from the point of view of research. While the insect pests of rice in Java have been extensively investigated, and their economic importance, biology and control methods studied, our knowledge of pests of secondary crops remains poor.

Download or read book Pest Control in Tropical Grain Legumes written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide for pulse growers in tropical, subtropical and semi-arid regions of Africa, Asia and Central America in the Pest Control series. It covers weed control, rodent pests, storage, diseases, nematodes, insects and mite pests.

Download or read book Pests of Grain Legumes written by S. R. Singh and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pest of grain legumes in Asia, the far wast and Australia; Pest of grain legumes in Africa; Pests of grain legumes in the United States, Latin America and de Caribbean; Bionomics and grain legume pests; Pest assessment and management; International cooperation.

Download or read book Advances in Cowpea Research written by B. B. Singh and published by IITA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowpea: taxonomy, genetics, and breeding, physiology and agronomy, diseases and parasitic weeds, insect pests, postharvest technology and utilization. Biotechnological applications.

Download or read book Agricultural Insect Pests of the Tropics and their Control written by Dennis S. Hill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-10-22 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urban Entomology written by Walter Ebeling and published by Division of Agricultural Sciences University of California. This book was released on 1975 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Integrated Pest Management written by D. P. Abrol and published by CABI. This book was released on 2012 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a critical evaluation of the management strategies involved in ecologically-based pest management, this book presents a balanced overview of environmentally safe and ecologically sound approaches. Topics covered include biological control with fungi and viruses, conservation of natural predators, use of botanicals and how effective pest management can help promote food security. In the broader context of agriculture, sustainability and environmental protection, the book provides a multidisciplinary and multinational perspective on integrated pest management useful to researchers in entomology, crop protection, environmental sciences and pest management.

Download or read book Guide for Field Crops in the Tropics and the Subtropics written by Samuel Cameron Litzenberger and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book tropical Grain Legume bulletin No 35 written by International Grain Legume Information Centre and published by IITA. This book was released on 1979 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Legume Pod Borer Maruca Vitrata written by Hari Chand Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Legumes in Rice based Cropping Systems in Tropical Asia written by C. L. L. Gowda and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Download or read book Tropical Grain Legume Bulletin 8 written by and published by IITA. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Regions written by Carmelo Rapisarda and published by CABI. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the research and application of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in tropical regions. The first section explores the agro-ecological framework that represents the foundations of IPM, in addition to emerging technologies in chemical and biological methods that are core to pest control in tropical crops. The second section follows a crop-based approach and provides details of current IPM applications in the main tropical food crops (such as cereals, legumes, root and tuber crops, sugarcane, vegetables, banana and plantain, citrus, oil palm, tea, cocoa and coffee) and also fibre crops (such as cotton) and tropical forests.

Download or read book The Pathology of Tropical Food Legumes written by D. J. Allen and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1984-03-22 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents broad coverage of the use of genetics to improve disease resistance in crops. Discusses host plant resistance as the most appropriate method of managing pests and disease and improving crop production. Provides information on the tropical environment, evolutionary diversity of the legumes, crop-pathogen evolution, cropping systems stability, germplasm exchange, and crop vulnerability. Focuses on the geographical distribution, economic importance and ecology and interactions of legume pathogens. Reviews major diseases of each crop presented and discusses the future of agricultural production.

Download or read book Insects on Grain Legumes in Northern Australia written by Merle Shepard and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1983 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey methods; Outline of survey results; Pests; Plant-sucking bugs; Pod-chewing insects; Foliage-feeding insects; Stem-borers and root-feeding insects; Beneficial orgnanisms; Predators; Parasites; Insect diseases; Postcript.

Download or read book Breeding Insect Resistant Crops for Sustainable Agriculture written by Ramesh Arora and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews and synthesizes the recent advances in exploiting host plant resistance to insects, highlighting the role of molecular techniques in breeding insect resistant crops. It also provides an overview of the fascinating field of insect-plant relationships, which is fundamental to the study of host-plant resistance to insects. Further, it discusses the conventional and molecular techniques utilized/useful in breeding for resistance to insect-pests including back-cross breeding, modified population improvement methods for insect resistance, marker-assisted backcrossing to expedite the breeding process, identification and validation of new insect-resistance genes and their potential for utilization, genomics, metabolomics, transgenesis and RNAi. Lastly, it analyzes the successes, limitations and prospects for the development of insect-resistant cultivars of rice, maize, sorghum and millet, cotton, rapeseed, legumes and fruit crops, and highlights strategies for management of insect biotypes that limit the success and durability of insect-resistant cultivators in the field. Arthropod pests act as major constraints in the agro-ecosystem. It has been estimated that arthropod pests may be destroying around one-fifth of the global agricultural production/potential production every year. Further, the losses are considerably higher in the developing tropics of Asia and Africa, which are already battling severe food shortage. Integrated pest management (IPM) has emerged as the dominant paradigm for minimizing damage by the insects and non-insect pests over the last 50 years. Pest resistant cultivars represent one of the most environmentally benign, economically viable and ecologically sustainable options for utilization in IPM programs. Hundreds of insect-resistant cultivars of rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, cotton, sugarcane and other crops have been developed worldwide and are extensively grown for increasing and/or stabilizing crop productivity. The annual economic value of arthropod resistance genes developed in global agriculture has been estimated to be greater than US$ 2 billion Despite the impressive achievements and even greater potential in minimizing pest- related losses, only a handful of books have been published on the topic of host-plant resistance to insects. This book fills this wide gap in the literature on breeding insect- resistant crops. It is aimed at plant breeders, entomologists, plant biotechnologists and IPM experts, as well as those working on sustainable agriculture and food security.