Sentences with phrase «fall armyworms»
"Fall armyworms" refers to a type of caterpillar that attacks and destroys crops, particularly during the fall season. They can cause significant damage to plants, leading to reduced crop yields and potential food shortages. Full definition
A Virginia Tech research collaboration produces advanced modeling about the potential spread of fall armyworm in Egypt.
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Genetically modified maize, Bacillus Thuringiensis (BT) could be Kenya's silver bullet in the fight against Fall Armyworm which has so...
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.
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.
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.
Oxitec's Simon Warner: Engineered male fall armyworms contain a gene that prevents female offspring from reaching adulthood, reducing wild pest...
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.
Description: Fruitworms include the fall armyworm, beet armyworm, and tomato fruitworm (also called the corn earworm).
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...».
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.
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 officials of NADMO were ready to collaborate with MOFA, the Regional Coordinating Council and other stakeholders in agriculture to combat the fall armyworm, which were threatening livelihoods of farmers.
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.
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.
The fall armyworm has rapidly spread across the continent and is wreaking destruction on staple crops
The free DIMBOA formed as a result causes many insects to die or cease growing, but not the fall armyworm.
According to a Reuters report this summer Brazilian farmers are complaining that Bt is not protecting the plants against the fall armyworm any longer.
In North and South America, the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda is an important maize pest causing considerable damage.
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.
The fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda is one of the most important maize pests in North and South America.
«If we can better understand how much this gut enzyme has helped the fall armyworm to become such a dangerous pest on maize, we may be able to use this to our advantage by impairing this insect enzyme and restoring the full defensive potential of maize against these pests,» says Daniel Giddings Vassão.
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).
In autumn 2017, the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission in Egypt presented a team of Virginia Tech researchers with an urgent challenge — determine if the fall armyworm, a pest native to the tropics of North and South America that is currently devastating crops across sub-Saharan Africa, could spread into Egypt and beyond.
To study Egypt, the IPM Innovation Lab developed a comprehensive risk analysis of that country's vulnerability to fall armyworm.