Breeding food legumes for resistance to storage insect pests: potential and limitations.
By G. Keneni, E. Bekele, E. Getu, M. Imtiaz, Tebkew Damte, B. Mulatu, K. Dagne. 2011
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Storage insect pests cause significant losses of food legumes particularly in the Tropics and the Sub-tropics. The most important species of storage insect pests of food legumes include Callosobruchus chinensis , C. maculatus , C. analis , Acanthoscelides obtectus , Bruchus incarnatus , B. rufimanus , B. dentipes , B. quinqueguttatus , B. emarginatus , B. ervi , B. lentis and B. pisorum . Effective post-harvest insect pest control measures should constitute part of the overall crop husbandry practices for preserving the quality of produce. Storage insect pests are commonly controlled using chemical insecticides which, however, bear many drawbacks related to high cost, environmental pollution and food safety risks. Breeding legume crops to improve their resistance against storage insect pests, although having technical limitations, is the best way of overcoming these disadvantages in an environment-friendly manner. In this paper, we present the findings of our extensive reviews on the potential of breeding resistant varieties of food legumes against storage insect pests along with the major technical limitations one would likely encounter and the prospective ways of tackling them.
Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Achievements and Challenges in Legume Breeding for Pest and Disease Resistance (2015, background): “analis, Acanthoscelides obtectus and Bruchus incarnates (Keneni et al., 2011).”
- Use of Wild Relatives and Closely Related Species to Adapt Common Bean to Climate Change (2013, background): “[87] pointed out that wild species generally have poor agronomic performance and that breeding for traits such as disease or pest resistance may be difficult if the mechanism of resistance affects productivity or crop quality.”