Sentences with phrase «stem borer»

The researchers collected fungus from black stem borers in an Ohio woodland.

As the dreaded white stem borer (WSB) continues to wreak havoc in the country's key coffee growing regions of...

Huahui No. 1 is genetically modified rice inserted with genes coming from the Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria, giving the rice its own toxin to kill rice pests such as stem borers.

The incidence of rice diseases (e.g., bacterial leaf blight, leaf blast, sheath rot, and sheath blight) and damage from insect pests (e.g., rice bug, yellow stem borer) were recorded for GR2E Golden Rice and unmodified control rice grown at five locations during the 2017 boro season in Bangladesh.

In order to determine other characteristics of the varieties, seed was planted on the experimental farm of the ARC - Grain Crops Institute in Potchefstroom and the varieties evaluated for resistance to the lepidopterous stem borers.

The farmers identified stem borer, leaf hopper and folder, rice blast, sheath blight, rhizoctonia rot and rice smut as the major problems afflicting hybrid rice.

Hybrid rice is thus susceptible to several diseases and efforts are now underway to develop hybrid varieties genetically engineered for resistance to bacterial leaf blight and rice stem borers.

To find out why, researchers took a closer to look at the black stem borer (pictured), an ambrosia beetle native to Asia that has become a tree - boring pest in North America.

IRRI has been instrumental in developing rice varieties with built - in resistance to common pests and diseases, including brown planthoppers, stem borers, green leafhoppers, tungro virus, blast, and bacterial blight.

A good example of the development of a crop variety with resistance to a pest is an indigenous sorghum variety with resistance to the stem borer, Chilo partellus.

Their resistance levels are compared to those of varieties with proven high levels of resistance to stem borers.