Death by desiccation: Effects of hermetic storage on cowpea bruchids

By L. Murdock, V. Margam, I. Baoua, Susan Balfe, R. Shade. 2012

243 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Insect Science, Plant Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/606eddcc24f1c35df59f4900c65ac9b6b6fadd71

Citations in the corpus

• Performance of triple bagging hermetic technology for postharvest storage of cowpea grain in Niger (2012, unknown): “We have explained the mortality in PICS bags elsewhere (Murdock et al., 2012) as being the result of desiccation that in turn results from depriving the insects of life-essential metabolic water, their major source of watere for the production of which O2 is essential.”