Insect Pest Complex and Beneficial Insects Associated with Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas) (Lam.) in Southern Nigeria and Key Pests to Consider in Control Programmes

Uwaidem, Y. I.; Borisade, O. A.; Essien, Rosemary A.; Akpan, E. A.

doi:10.9734/jaeri/2018/44189

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“…Resistance to pests and disease is due to the influence of these enemies in the productivity. In fact, sweetpotato weevil is the first pest in Niger (Doumma et al, 2008), and in Southern Nigeria (Uwaidem et al, 2018) with 61.11 and 33.33%, respectively. Orange fleshed mentioned in Abia state can be explained by the membership of the producers to Sweetpotato Producers Association of Nigeria (SPAN).…”

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Sweetpotato breeding priority and preferred traits to increasing its utilisation in Niger and Nigeria

Issa,

Nwankwo,

Dan-Jimo

et al. 2023

Afr. J. Agric. Res.

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Sweetpotato is an important food, feed and vegetable crop in Niger and Nigeria. The adoption of a new variety depends on famers and consumers preferences. The objective of this study was to identify sweetpotato preferred traits by end-users in Niger and Nigeria. The study was conducted in two countries through participatory rural appraisal. The results revealed that sweetpotato is produced by men in Niger, while it is mostly produced by women in South-East Nigeria. In Niger, 100% of cultivated varieties were landraces, while 75.00% in Nigeria were landraces. Results showed that in Niger, farmers preferred high yielding, white flesh colour, and drought tolerant varieties, while in Nigeria they preferred high yielding, white flesh colour, and earliness cultivars. Traders and consumers in both countries preferred healthy, white flesh colour and big storage root size varieties. There is a need of effective breeding program in Niger, and both countries should turn toward developing cultivars with high yield, drought tolerant, and pest and disease resistant.

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Section: Sweetpotato Preferred Traits By Farmers In Niger and Nigeriamentioning

confidence: 99%

Sweetpotato breeding priority and preferred traits to increasing its utilisation in Niger and Nigeria

Issa,

Nwankwo,

Dan-Jimo

et al. 2023

Afr. J. Agric. Res.

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“…Many ecological studies around over world of piercing sucking insects infested potato-plants (Herakly,1974;Eastop and Raccah, 1988;Amitava. 1998;Buxton et al, 2005;Afsah , 2015;Mesbah et al 2016;Uwaidem et al, 2018 andKrochel et al, 2020).…”

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Studies on Certain Piercing-Sucking Insects Infesting Potato Plants and their Associated Predators in Dakhlia Governorate., Egypt

Ghanim

El-Serafy

Hassan³

et al. 2021

Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology

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Field trials were conducted to study the dominant piercing-sucking insect species infesting potato plants in Dakahlia Governorate. The obtained results indicated that there were six piercing-sucking insects attacking potato plants and the dominant piercing-sucking insects were Myzus persicae (Sulker); Aphis gossypii Glover; Empouasca descipiens Polai. and Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) during the two years of study. Data cleared that M. persicae and A. gossypii had one peak in each potato plantation and E. descipiens recorded two peaks in summer plantation, in the meanwhile three peaks in winter plantation during the two years of investigation. B. tabaci had three peaks in summer and winter plantation during the period of study. The obtained results revealed that there were four predators belonging to Family Coccinellidae namely: Hippodamia trideciapunctata L., Coccinella undecimpunctata L., Chilomenes propinqua isis (Mulsant) and Chilomenes propinqua nilotica(Mulsant), and one predator from family Chrysopidae, namely Chrysoperla carnea (Steph.) was recorded. It can be stated that most dominant species were H. tridecimpunctata and C. undecimpunctata.

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Insect Pest Complex and Beneficial Insects Associated with Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas) (Lam.) in Southern Nigeria and Key Pests to Consider in Control Programmes

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Sweetpotato breeding priority and preferred traits to increasing its utilisation in Niger and Nigeria

Sweetpotato breeding priority and preferred traits to increasing its utilisation in Niger and Nigeria

Studies on Certain Piercing-Sucking Insects Infesting Potato Plants and their Associated Predators in Dakhlia Governorate., Egypt

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