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Tropical cover crops for the management of the yam nematode,Scutellonema bradys
- Source :
- International Journal of Pest Management. 62:85-91
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2016.
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Abstract
- Yam tuber dry rot caused by Scutellonema bradys results in the reduction of tuber quality. Studies were conducted on the effect of intercropping cover crops with yams on nematode damage to tubers. Eleven cover crops were intercropped with yams in pot screen house and field experiments. Plants were inoculated with S. bradys in water suspension in pots and by incorporating infected yam peels into soil around plant roots in field experiments with un-inoculated plants serving as control. The experiments were factorial with six replications per treatment in pot and four in field experiments. In pot experiments, populations of S. bradys recovered from tubers and nematode damage were lower in yam tubers intercropped with Tagetes erecta, Aeschynomene histrix, Stylosanthes guianensis, Mucuna pruriens and Pueraria phaseoloides compared to where no cover crops were intercropped with yams. Conversely, S. bradys populations from pots with Crotalaria ochroleuca, Crotalaria juncea, Centrosema pubescens, Cajanus ...
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Mucuna
biology
ved/biology
ved/biology.organism_classification_rank.species
010607 zoology
Intercropping
biology.organism_classification
01 natural sciences
Horticulture
Agronomy
meteorology.tropical_cyclone
Centrosema pubescens
Insect Science
Crotalaria juncea
Scutellonema bradys
meteorology
Pueraria phaseoloides
Cover crop
Agronomy and Crop Science
Mucuna pruriens
010606 plant biology & botany
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13665863 and 09670874
- Volume :
- 62
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Pest Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........168a2ea4d2bdf5cb9b27c9986a71a995
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09670874.2015.1111465