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Evaluation Resistance Recently Evolved Wheat Varieties to Trogoderama (Paperback)
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Evaluation Resistance Recently Evolved Wheat Varieties to Trogoderama (Paperback)
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Wheat Triticum aestivum L. is the 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 of
the country.Cereals constitute a major part of food throughout the
world and agro-based industries depend upon their production.
Considerable amount of damage in caused by insect pests to stored
wheat in Pakistan. The damage caused by insect pest to wheat grain
has been estimated at 10 to 20%.Most favorable grain moisture range
for storage insect pests is from 12 to 18 percent. It is important
to control insect population size before grain is irrevocably
damaged by boring, feeding and mold germination.The Khapra beetle
(Trogoderma granarium), which originated in South Asia, is one of
the world's most destructive pests of grain products and seeds.It
is considered one of the 100 worst invasive species in the
world.Adult beetles are brownish and 2 to 3 millimetres long.
Immature larvae are up to 5 millimeters long and are covered in
dense, reddish-brown hair. The eggs of the khapra beetle are
cylindrical with one end more rounded and the other more pointed,
about 0.7 mm long and 0.25 mm.
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