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The Status of research for the management of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Title The Status of research for the management of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Creator Bakaze, Elyeza
Tinzaara, William
Gold, Cliff
Kubiriba, Jerome
 
Subject breeding
genetic engineering
pest resistance
yield losses
 
Description The banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae] is a major pest of East African highland bananas and plantains. Its larvae bore in corm tissue damaging the root system, disrupting nutrient and water uptake, compromising plant anchorage, reducing yield, and shortening plantation life. Yield losses in bananas and plantains may exceed 50%. Available technologies for the management of the pest include cultural control, biological control, and chemical control. These methods may be costly, labor intensive, or ecologically unsustainable. Such effects, together with developed pesticide resistance, have led to various efforts searching for sustainable alternatives. To achieve this, there is a need to understand the biology of the pest and the currently available management options which includes use of cultural practices, resistant banana varieties, biological and microbial control, pheromone trapping and chemical and botanical insecticides. This article reviews the research status
concerning C. sordidus biology, distribution, management options, including current innovations such as genome editing, and suggests future research directions for the management of the pest. Research findings suggest that no single control strategy will provide complete control. The integration of appropriate conventional C. sordidus management options with genetic engineering and other ecologically friendly methods such as use of botanicals and infochemicals will manage the pest and ustainably increase banana production.
 
Date 2022-03-25
2023-04-27T07:52:59Z
2023-04-27T07:52:59Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Bakaze, E.; Tinzaara, W.; Gold, C.; Kubiriba, J.(2022)The status of research for the management of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Sub-Saharan Africa.European Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences 4(2) 13 p. ISSN: 2684-1827
2684-1827
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130166
https://doi.org/10.24018/ejfood.2022.4.2.469
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 39-51
application/pdf
 
Publisher European Open Science
 
Source European Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences