Barley, Hordeum vulgare Linn. (family: Gramineae) is an important cereal crop of Rabi season grown in India. The chapattis made up of barley flour are very palatable and can be easily digested even by the persons suffering from stomach ailments. Besides an ideal feed and fodder for livestock, the crop has acquired the status of an industrial crop in malting and brewing. This crop could perform ...

Field experiments were carried out at the National Maize Research Program in Rampur, Chitwan, with objective of comparing effectiveness insecticides field for controlling maize leaf aphid (Rhopalosiphum maidis Fitch) during winter season 2019 and 2020. The design experiment was randomized complete block four replications. plot size 6 rows 5 m long spacing 60cm × 25cm. hybrid Rampur Hybrid-14 (R...

Agricultural production has intensified over the last century both across increasingly homogenized landscapes and at field level. This study analyzes effects of land-use intensity landscape local scales on main insect pests, predators yield grain sorghum as a summer crop in Uruguay. It represents one very few studies focused reduced system other than organic agriculture adds information from an...

Plum pox, an invasive disease recently identified in Pennsylvania stone fruit orchards, is caused by the aphid-transmitted Plum pox virus (genus Potyvirus, family Potyviridae, PPV). To identify potential vectors, we described the aphid species communities and the seasonal dynamics of the dominant aphid species within Pennsylvania peach orchards. Aphids were trapped weekly in 2002 and 2003 from ...

Signaling networks among multiple phytohormones fine-tune plant defense responses to insect herbivore attack. Previously, it was reported that the synergistic combination of ethylene (ET) and jasmonic acid (JA) was required for accumulation of the maize insect resistance1 (mir1) gene product, a cysteine (Cys) proteinase that is a key defensive protein against chewing insect pests in maize (Zea ...