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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Breeding food legumes for resistance to storage insect pests: Potential and limitations
Sustainability, Volume 3, No. 9, Year 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. © 2011 by the authors.
Authors & Co-Authors
Keneni, Gemechu
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Holetta Research Centre
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa University
Bekele, Endashaw
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa University
Getu, Emana
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa University
Imtiaz, Muhammad
Lebanon, Beirut
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas Syria
Damte, Tebkew B.
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Center
Mulätu, Bayeh
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Holetta Research Centre
Dagne, Kifle
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa University
Statistics
Citations: 91
Authors: 7
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.3390/su3091399
Research Areas
Environmental
Food Security
Study Design
Cohort Study