The animal class Insecta and the plant family Palmae.

Howard, Forrest W.; Moore, Darrell; Giblin-Davis, Robin M.; Abad, R. G.

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“…The coconut palm, Cocoas nucifera L. (Arecales: Arecaceae), is amongst the twenty most significant plant varieties [52]. Presently, it is actually in a commercial sense cultivated within more than ninety nations, masking an overall area of roughly twelve million hectares.…”

Section: Coconutmentioning

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Biomass as Low-Cost Adsorbents for Removal of Heavy Metals from Aqueous Solution: A Review of Some Selected Biomass

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Low cost adsorbents have become a major area of consideration to many researchers due to the expense nature of the available activated carbon. Although commercial activated carbon is the most sufficient and efficiently used carbon for the removal of heavy metals ions coming from wastewater, it is faced with a lot of setback such as; the higher the quality of the activated carbon the more expensive it is, the regeneration of the used carbon tends to be very difficult especially in large volume. Due to this different biomass from agricultural by-products have been investigated to replace the commercial activated carbon and most of the findings have indicated a significant removal in terms of heavy metals in synthetic aqueous solution. This study have looked into and reviewed the various low cost adsorbents that have been employed for the treatment of wastewater laden with heavy metals.

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Section: Coconutmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biomass as Low-Cost Adsorbents for Removal of Heavy Metals from Aqueous Solution: A Review of Some Selected Biomass

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“…In some publications palms are referred to as being susceptible to LYD only when mature. This, however needs to be interpreted in relation to the ecology of the vectors, which in some cases feed only on mature palms as adults and are rarely found on immature palms (Howard, 2001a). Thus, in cases where palms are referred to as being susceptible at all growth stages, for example BCS in PNG (Kelly et al, 2011), this could reflect the biology of the vector species.…”

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“…In contrast to annual and temperate crops that might need protecting only for short periods of vulnerability, palms are long lived and vector feeding that results in transmission can be anytime during the palm's long productive life. A wide variety of insects feed on palms (Howard, 2001a; Gitau et al, 2009) so widespread use of insecticide could disrupt natural regulation of some of these by predators and parasitoids. Furthermore, insecticides need to be both fast acting enough to kill the vector before transmission can occur and yet enduring to protect the palms over longer periods (Riedle-Bauer et al, 2014).…”

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Coconut Lethal Yellowing Diseases: A Phytoplasma Threat to Palms of Global Economic and Social Significance

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The recent discovery of Bogia coconut syndrome in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the first report of a lethal yellowing disease (LYD) in Oceania. Numerous outbreaks of LYDs of coconut have been recorded in the Caribbean and Africa since the late Nineteenth century and have caused the death of millions of palms across several continents during the Twentieth century. Despite the severity of economic losses, it was only in the 1970s that the causes of LYDs were identified as phytoplasmas, a group of insect-transmitted bacteria associated with diseases in many other economically important crop species. Since the development of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology, knowledge of LYDs epidemiology, ecology and vectors has grown rapidly. There is no economically viable treatment for LYDs and vector-based management is hampered by the fact that vectors have been positively identified in very few cases despite many attempted transmission trials. Some varieties and hybrids of coconut palm are known to be less susceptible to LYD but none are completely resistant. Optimal and current management of LYD is through strict quarantine, prompt detection and destruction of symptomatic palms, and replanting with less susceptible varieties or crop species. Advances in technology such as loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for detection and tracking of phytoplasma DNA in plants and insects, remote sensing for identifying symptomatic palms, and the advent of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based tools for gene editing and plant breeding are likely to allow rapid progress in taxonomy as well as understanding and managing LYD phytoplasma pathosystems.

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“…The coconut palm, Cocos nucifera L. (Arecales: Arecaceae), is one of the 20 most important plant species ( Howard 2001a ). Currently, it is commercially grown in over 90 countries, covering a total area of approximately 12 million hectares.…”

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First Report on the Whitefly,Aleurodicus pseudugesiion the Coconut Palm,Cocos nuciferain Brazil

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Ferreira³

et al. 2012

Journal of Insect Science

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The coconut palm, Cocos nucifera L. (Arecales: Arecaceae), is currently grown extensively throughout the intertropical zones of the world, including Brazil, where it constitutes an important source of income for growers. Although whiteflies are not normally considered coconut pests, these insects can damage crops directly by sucking the sap, which weakens the plant; indirect damage may be caused by sooty mold formation over the excreted honeydew and by the transmission of pathogens. Whiteflies have infested coconut plants in the northeastern, northern, and southeastern regions of Brazil. Infested materials were collected and the causative insect was identified as Aleurodicus pseudugesii Martin (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae). This is the first report of A. pseudugesii in Brazil as a pest of the coconut palm.

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The animal class Insecta and the plant family Palmae.

Cited by 8 publications

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Biomass as Low-Cost Adsorbents for Removal of Heavy Metals from Aqueous Solution: A Review of Some Selected Biomass

Biomass as Low-Cost Adsorbents for Removal of Heavy Metals from Aqueous Solution: A Review of Some Selected Biomass

Coconut Lethal Yellowing Diseases: A Phytoplasma Threat to Palms of Global Economic and Social Significance

First Report on the Whitefly,Aleurodicus pseudugesiion the Coconut Palm,Cocos nuciferain Brazil

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