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A Pilot Survey for Pest Damage in Chickpeas in Jordan and Syria

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Title A Pilot Survey for Pest Damage in Chickpeas in Jordan and Syria
 
Creator Sithanantham, S
Cardona, C
 
Subject Chickpea
Entomology
 
Description A survey of the damage caused to chickpea [Cicer arietinum] in Syria and Jordan was carried out in May 1983. Damage caused by Liriomyza cicerina was greatest in northern Syria. Larval populations of Heliothis spp. were low, generally averaging less than 1 larva/plant. Pod damage caused by Heliothis was greater in southern Syria and northern Jordan than in the other regions; the greatest pod damage (32%) was observed in a crop in southern Syria. The pterophorid Marasmarcha ehrenbergiana was common in several locations in southern Syria and Jordan and at 1 location in northern Syria. At some locations in Jordan, a black aphid (probably Aphis craccivora) was recorded together with a low incidence of stunt disease, transmitted by the aphid. None of the 6 crops studied in Jordan received any insecticidal treatment, while 6 of the 13 crops in Syria were protected with insecticides, most commonly by a cheap dust formulation of DDT and HCH
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 1984
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7988/1/ICN_10_20-22_1984.pdf
Sithanantham, S and Cardona, C (1984) A Pilot Survey for Pest Damage in Chickpeas in Jordan and Syria. International Chickpea Newsletter, 10. pp. 20-22. ISSN 0257-2508