Nutritional Ecology of the Southern Green Stink Bug &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Nezara viridula&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) on Selected Varieties of Cowpea and Tomato

Ewunkem, Akamu Jude; Sintim, Henry Osofuhene; Dingha, Beatrice N.; Gyawaly, Sudan; Jackai, Louis Ernest

doi:10.11648/j.aje.20200401.11

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“…Fabaceae was the predominant family in the present study (Figure 4) and this may be due to the global dominance among the largest terrestrial plants (12). Another reason for its predominance among the plant families in the present study may be due to its legume fruit-producing trait and ability to fix nitrogen, as well as economically and medicinally important relevance (43).…”

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Potential medicinal, nutritive and antiviral food plants: Africa’s plausible answer to the low Covid-19 mortality

Raimi

Musyoki

Olatunji

et al. 2021

J Herbmed Pharmacol

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The surge in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has put the scientific community on overdrive to come up with a cure and/or possible vaccine to curtail the menace this virus has caused. Considering the morbidity rate from the Coronavirus and the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for healthy living, this review examined and documented the possible options of plant-based immune boosters for attaining wellness and protect against infections caused by viruses. This review documented 106 plants consumed largely in Africa as food or medicine after assessing over 172 articles from notable search engines. These plants were reported for antiviral activities and immune boosters for attaining wellness and immunomodulation, a key protective feature against infections caused by viruses. The documented plants contain several immune-modulating compounds like vitamins, flavonoids, phenols, macro, and micronutrients, which might be the possible reason for the current leverage on the mortality rate associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in the African continent. The study, therefore, concluded that medicinal/food plants are able to enhance healthy living and medicinal plants are a significant source of phytomedicinal content for the management of viral-induced diseases such as COVID-19.

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Section: Antiviral Food Plantsmentioning

confidence: 58%

Potential medicinal, nutritive and antiviral food plants: Africa’s plausible answer to the low Covid-19 mortality

Raimi

Musyoki

Olatunji

et al. 2021

J Herbmed Pharmacol

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“…There is only report on the N. Viridula parasitizing on vegetable crop of Vigna unguiculata (Linn.) Walp (Ewunkem et al, 2020). They worked on the features of histopathology and pathogenicity of phaeohyphomycosis of Nezara viridula caused by C. Lunata (Singh et al, 1991).…”

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Qualitative detection of different enzymes from the gut and salivary glands of Nezara viridula Linn. using the chemical inference

Rajak

2020

Arch. Agric. Environ. Sci.

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Globally the crop insect pests damage the 30% of agriculture production due to insect spoil, and the situation is very awful in particularly developing countries such as India. There are large number of insect pest families are well known which induce the critical destroy to agriculture crops. Crop insect pest’s harm is one of the significant features that ruin the agriculture crop productivity, although the large-scale utilization of chemical pesticides. The successfulness of the pesticides depends upon the interaction of chemicals with the physiology of the insect of the pests. In India, the Nezara viridula Linn, is one of the critical insects because of its destructive feeding on major crop which is the utmost source of economic deprivation in agriculture. The enzymes present in the gut and salivary glands of the N. Viridula play key role in the feeding behaviour. Presently very little is investigated about the gut and salivary glands of the N. Viridula at minute level. We first time investigated the different enzymes existing in the gut and salivary gland using the chemical inference. This research work is carried out to analysis the enzymes for digestive and feeding behaviour of N. Viridula which will assist the biologists to manage the challenges are created by their resistance to the traditional chemical insecticides used for prevention of N. Viridula (a type of southern green stink bug) inhabitants and high reproductive amplitude. The extensive statistics of invertase enzymes, maltase, alpha galactosidase, amylase, esterase, proteinase and polypeptidase enzymes for the N. Viridula in salivary glands and gut inspired by this research imparts supplementary resource for further understanding of the biology of this Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) species.

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Nutritional Ecology of the Southern Green Stink Bug <i>Nezara viridula</i> (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) on Selected Varieties of Cowpea and Tomato

Cited by 2 publications

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Potential medicinal, nutritive and antiviral food plants: Africa’s plausible answer to the low Covid-19 mortality

Potential medicinal, nutritive and antiviral food plants: Africa’s plausible answer to the low Covid-19 mortality

Qualitative detection of different enzymes from the gut and salivary glands of Nezara viridula Linn. using the chemical inference

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