Sentences with phrase «armyworm spodoptera»
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To study Egypt, the IPM Innovation Lab developed a comprehensive risk analysis of that country's vulnerability to fall armyworm.
Genetically modified maize, Bacillus Thuringiensis (BT) could be Kenya's silver bullet in the fight against Fall Armyworm which has so...
GBP was originally described in a lepidopteran, the armyworm, Pseudaletia separata, and regulates growth and immune response in a concentration - dependent manner [16,17].
An armyworm on a tomato plantDR.
In a paper published today (July 10) in Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers have shown that a tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plant's protections can encourage beet armyworm caterpillars (Spodoptera exigua) to cannibalize other caterpillars.
Bracovirus genes can be detected in the genomes of several species of butterfly and moth, including the famous Monarch (Danaus plexippus), the silkworm (Bombyx mori) and insect pests such as the Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) and the Beet Armyworm (Spodoptera exigua).
The Max Planck scientists now want to identify the enzymes and the encoding genes that are responsible for the detoxification process in the fall armyworm.
In North and South America, the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda is an important maize pest causing considerable damage.
According to a Reuters report this summer Brazilian farmers are complaining that Bt is not protecting the plants against the fall armyworm any longer.
The free DIMBOA formed as a result causes many insects to die or cease growing, but not the fall armyworm.
The fall armyworm has rapidly spread across the continent and is wreaking destruction on staple crops
Like his colleague Daniel Giddings Vassão, Felipe Wouters is from Brazil, where fall armyworm caused major losses of the maize yield before Bt maize was introduced.
Caterpillars of the fall armyworm and two other Spodoptera species deploy a gut enzyme that catalyzes the attachment of a sugar to the toxic free DIMBOA.
A 1995 outbreak of two migratory moth species — beet armyworm (Spodoptera exigua) and cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni)-- devastated cotton crops in Texas» Lower Rio Grande Valley.
In new experiments, Hobson's team captured true armyworm moths in Ontario throughout the year and analyzed the hydrogen retained within the moths» wings.
Inferring origins of migrating insects using isoscapes: a case study using the true armyworm, Mythimna unipuncta, in North America.
Then there are the delicate interactions between warblers and armyworm caterpillars, including what happens when the system breaks down through habitat destruction from logging and the overuse of insecticides.
For years, chemical ecologist Dawn Luthe and her students wondered why fall armyworm caterpillars (Spodoptera frugiperda) let piles of feces, known as frass, accumulate on corn, trapped in the plant's cuplike whorls where the leaves join the stalk.
For its latest work, Tumlinson's team knew that corn plants release a potent wasp attractant — a blend of terpenoids and indole — when under attack from the beet armyworm caterpillar.
The agriculture sector achieved a marginal growth despite the fall armyworm invasion it suffered in 2017.
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William Quaitoo reacting to complaints from farmers in the area on how their farms have been destroyed by the fall armyworm said, the complaints are «just a way of taking money from the government; that's what they do all the time because they're difficult people.
He said in 2016, the Fall Armyworm invaded maize crops in Zambia and by January 3, 2017 about 90,000 hectares were affected, according to reports released by the Zambian government's Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit.
Mr. Quaitoo reacting to complaints from farmers in the area on how their farms have been destroyed by the fall armyworm and subsequent appeal for some form of compensation said, the complaints are «just a way of taking money from the government; that's what they do all the time...».
For the experiment, researchers used bell pepper and soybean plants, beet armyworm caterpillars, and honeybees.
The beet armyworm will also feed on the foliage.
Fall and beet armyworms, yellow - striped armyworms, and variegated cutworms may feed on pods.
Dr. Afriyie Akoto said the fund could be used to mitigate the plight of farmers in distressed times, like recently where some farmers have been calling for the government's financial support after their farms were ravaged by armyworms.
The Ejisu - Juaben district chief cocoa farmer, Nana Kofi Mpiani, feared Ghana may not be able to achieve its target of producing 1 million tonnes of cocoa if the invasion of the armyworms on cocoa farms is not controlled.
«I've currently lost investment worth thousands of Ghana cedis last year when the armyworms infested my farm.
General News of Tuesday, 15 May 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com play videoEmmanuel Asante Krobea, Director of Crop Services, MoFA Contrary to claims made by the Agric Minister, Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie that government has eliminated fall armyworms which have plagued farmers since 2017, the Director of the Directorate of Crop Services at the Ministry for Food and Agriculture, Emmanuel Asante Krobea has conceded that the pests can not be exterminated in the long haul.
He was of the view that every Ghanaian must accept that armyworms are always going to be with us therefore it's about time we accept that and work around it»
Contrary to claims made by the Agric Minister, Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie that government has eliminated fall armyworms which have plagued farmers since 2017, the Director of the Directorate of Crop Services at the Ministry for Food and Agriculture, Emmanuel Asante Krobea has conceded that the pests can not be exterminated in the long haul.
Mr. Quaitoo, who is also the Member of Parliament for Akim Oda, had come under fire for saying, in an interview on Accra - based Star FM, that northern farmers could not be trusted in their assessment of damage from armyworms.
The Deputy Minister has come under intense criticisms for days after passing uncomplimentary comment about people from the Northern region in the wake of the armyworms invasion.
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The former deputy minister was heavily criticised for making what many considered ethnocentric comments with regards to people from the north in the heat of the destructive fall armyworms invasion.
It was supported by Asunafo South MP Eric Opoku, who urged the new deputy minister to do his best to support the sector minister in not only fighting the fall armyworms but also settling protesting college of agriculture students.
Oxitec's Simon Warner: Engineered male fall armyworms contain a gene that prevents female offspring from reaching adulthood, reducing wild pest...