Cape Verde is an archipelago of ten islands located in the Atlantic Ocean, 750 km west of the Senegal coast. The country is largely dependent on cereals, importing around 70-90% of its needs, with maize being the most important with 60-70% of all cereals imported. The storage system comprises both bulk and bag storage. Two port terminal elevators in two distinct islands guarantee the receiving ...

Combining a biotin-enrichment protocol and 454GS-FLX titanium pyrosequencing technology, we characterised 22 polymorphic microsatellite loci from the parasitic wasp, Habrobracon hebetor (Say) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a cosmopolitan species commonly used in biological control against a wide range of both major lepidopterous pests of stored products and fi eld crops in different parts of the wo...