Legume flower and pod borer, maruca vitrata fabricius is a key pest of cowpea and other legume crops, causing up to 80 percent yield loss. Sex pheromone recognition and characterization of three pheromonebinding proteins in the legume pod borer, maruca vitrata fabricius lepidoptera. Maruca vitrata is an economically significant insect pest of cowpea in subsaharan africa. Responses to host plant volatiles and identification of. Evaluation of toxicities and deposition of different plant extracts on larvae of pod borer maruca vitrata in year round countrybean. Additive effects of the entomopathogenic fungus beauveria. Studies were carried out on biology and morphometrics on legume pod borer, maruca vitrata g. Cowpea pods with maruca vitrata larvae were collected from cowpea plants from. Resistance to the legume pod borer, maruca vitrata fabricius, and. Nektonic animals are those that swim and migrate freely, e. Comparison of sensory structures present on larval. The species was first described by johan christian fabricius in 1787 it can cause losses of 2080% on the harvests of cowpeas. Prebreeding using wild species for genetic enhancement of.
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Materials and methods the studies on biology of lablab bean pod borer, m. The biology, insect densityyield loss relationships, genotype reactions, and consumption and utilisation of food by the legume pod borer, maruca vitrata fabricius on pigeonpea cajanus cajan. Pdf the emergence and mating rhythms of the legume pod. Comparison of sensory structures present on larval antennae and mouthparts of lepidopteran crop pests. Domestication and breeding has resulted in the loss of adaptive alleles and fixation of deleterious alleles through altered selection, resulting in the reduced. Bionomics, host plant resistance, and management of the. Their only means of controlling the disease is using.
It was a time when women were formally excluded from science the. Fabaceae, a widely cultivated legume crop in subsaharan africa, and can cause yield losses in the range of 2080% 1. In laboratory, a concentration of 109conidiaml of b. Bioecology of apanteles taragamae, a parasitoid of maruca vitrata. Identification and pheromonotropic activity of pheromone.
Biology of the legume pod borer, maruca vitrata fabricius and its damage to pigeonpea and adzuki bean volume 20 issue 2 h. The emergence and mating rhythms of the legume pod borer adults were investigated at. Akinfenwa 1975 3 814 1 514 2527 okeyoowuor and ochieng 1981 3. Please utilize the resources on this page to help you navigate through your course. The key pod borers include the lepidopteran caterpillars the spotted pod borer, maruca testulalis geyer maruca vitrata and the spiny pod borer, etiella zinckenella tretsche. Biology of the legume pod borer, maruca vitrata fabricius and its. Woese institute for genomic biology, university of illinois at urbanachampaign. Larvae of this moth can cause up to 80% of yield losses. Pdf geographic distribution of phylogeneticallydistinct legume.
Besides pod borer and pod fly, other insects like spotted borermaruca maruca vitrata geyer and pod sucking bugs clavigralla horrida germar pose a big threat to pigeonpea production 12. Helen i battle professor department of biology western university 1151 richmond st. Its common names include the maruca pod borer, bean pod borer, soybean pod borer, mung moth, and the legume pod borer. Biological sciences agricultural pests analysis animal behavior beans insect larvae observations physiological aspects insects larvae legumes mimosaceae moths odorants sense organs.
Transcriptome sequencing, and rapid development and. Besides pod borer and pod fly, other insects like spotted borer maruca maruca vitrata geyer and pod sucking bugs clavigralla horrida germar pose a big threat to pigeonpea production 12. Crambidae is one of the key pest species of cowpea and widely distributed throughput tropical and subtropical regions, causing up to 80% of yield loss. Cowpea protected from a devastating pest, free for smallholder african farmers scientists have discovered a new mechanism to protect cowpea from pod borers that destroy smallholder farmers yields. Maruca is a serious insect pest of early pigeonpea. The animal diversity web is an educational resource written largely by and for college students. The findings of this study contribute to the identified knowledge gap regarding the field biology of an acknowledged important pest, m. The experiment was laid out in splitsplit plot design.
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Intrarow spacing and sowing dates were respectively allocated to the main and subplot while pesticides were allocated to the subsub. Cowpea protected from a devastating pest, free for. Ping hu, jingzhen wang, mingming cui, jing tao, youqing luo. Host legume leaves served as the insects diet until pupation.
Bioecology of apanteles taragamae, a parasitoid of maruca. Maruca vitrata larvae were collected from legume crops in taiwan. An attempt to the classicalbiological against maruca vitrata a key cowpea insect pestin benin is made with the introduction from taiwan of the parasitoid apanteles taragamae. Oghiakheresistance screening, biology and behavior of maruca vitrata fabricius lepidoptera. Crop science abstract plant genetic resources evaluation. Immature larval forms of moth species are the most common hosts, but these viruses have also been.
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