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Limits Imposed by Biological Factors: Pests

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Title Limits Imposed by Biological Factors: Pests
 
Creator Campbell, W V
Reed, W
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Fertilizer Appications
 
Description THE palatibility and high protein content of some
food legumes make them desirable to a wide variety
of insects. Although most have developed resistance
by natural selection to many potential pests, as for
example the chickpea with its acid exudate
(Rembold and Winter 1982), almost all food
legumes suffer severe losses. A possible exception
to this is Lathyrus; however, the plant and seed itself
is toxic to man, unless properly cooked.
Pests can damage legumes from the seedling (e.g.
cutworms) through the vegetative (e.g. defoliators)
and reproductive stages (e.g. pod borers) and in the
stored seed (bruchids). Many insects can act as pests
(e.g. over 200 insect species have been recorded
damaging pigeonpea in India). A comprehensive
account of the pest problems will not be presented,
but rather the account will be restricted to the major
food legumes peanuts, chickpeas, mungbeans,
soybeans, pigeon peas , and cow peas that are
widely grown in Southeast Asia. This paper will
concentrate upon the general aspects of the pests,
and their management
 
Date 1986
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4353/1/CP-315.pdf
Campbell, W V and Reed, W (1986) Limits Imposed by Biological Factors: Pests. In: Food Legume Improvement for Asian Farming Systems.Proceedings of an international workshop, 1-5 September 1986, Khon Kaen, Thailand.