Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is important cereal crop and staple
food of people of Pakistan. It occupies the first position in area
amongst the cereal crops and covers about 65% of food crop area in
Pakistan. Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum Herbst (Coleoptera:
Tenebrionidae) are cosmopolitan insects that are associated with
stored grains. The red flour beetle feed only on flour and broken
kernels. In addition to grain they attack dried feeds, dry fruits,
pulses and prepared cereal foods such as cornflakes and numerous
other stored food products. Flour beetles contaminate wheat and
other cereal products by their feces and cast -off exoskeleton. The
odors that they leave and discoloration of white cereal products to
a dirty gray. Both the larva and the adult cause damage. Chemicals
are quite harmful and very expensive and cause many human health
problems. Keeping in view the importance of these problems, present
studies were under taken as an attempt to find out the inherent and
comparative resistance of different wheat varieties against Red
flour beetles, which could be utilized in developing wheat
varieties resistance against this pest in future.
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