Development ofBrachymeria ovata [hymenoptera: chalcididae] in three noctuid hosts reared on artificial diet and insect-resistant and susceptible soybean genotypes

Entomophaga ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Rogers ◽  
M. J. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Diet ◽  
Soybean Genotypes ◽  
Insect Resistant

COMPARATIVE CONSUMPTION AND UTILIZATION OF FLORIDA BEGGARWEED AND TWO SOYBEAN GENOTYPES BY PSEUDOPLUSIA INCLUDENS LARVAE (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE)

1988 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Mark Beach ◽  
James W. Todd
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
Pseudoplusia Includens ◽  
Total Consumption ◽  
Soybean Genotype ◽  
Soybean Genotypes ◽  
Glycine Max L ◽  
Soybean Looper ◽  
Insect Resistant

Larvae of the soybean looper (SBL), Pseudoplusia includens (Walker), were reared on three food types: soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merrill, genotypes ‘Kirby’ (insect susceptible) and GatIR 81-296 (insect resistant), and Florida beggarweed, (Desmodium tortuosum (Swartz) de Candolle. Larval development was longest on GatIR 81-296 (16.7 days) followed by beggarweed (15.5 days) and Kirby (14.1 days). Total consumption and relative consumption rate by ultimate (6th) instar SBL were significantly greatest on Kirby with no difference noted in consumption between GatIR 81-296 and beggarweed. However, approximate digestibility and efficiency of conversion of ingested food by ultimate instars were significantly greatest on beggarweed compared with the two soybean genotypes. Ultimate instar weight gain and growth rate were similar for larvae restricted to Kirby and beggarweed, while larvae restricted to GatIR 81-296 had significantly reduced weight gain and growth rate. Pupal weights of individuals reared on GatIR 81-296 also were significantly reduced compared with those in the Kirby and beggarweed treatments. SBL larvae consumed less beggarweed foliage (mg dry weight) than Kirby soybean, yet compensated to some extent by utilizing beggarweed foliage more efficiently. Beggarweed proved to be a better source of larval nutrition for SBL than the insect-resistant soybean genotype GatIR 81-296.

Responses of soybean genotypes to intercropping with maize in the Southern Guinea Savanna, Nigeria

2004 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-163
Author(s):  
C. U. Egbo ◽  
M. A. Adagba ◽  
D. K. Adedzwa
Keyword(s):  
Seed Yield ◽  
Block Design ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
Yield Response ◽  
Ecological Zone ◽  
Land Equivalent Ratio ◽  
Guinea Savanna ◽  
Days To Maturity ◽  
Soybean Genotypes ◽  
Location Interaction

Field trials were conducted in the wet seasons of 1997 and 1998 at Makurdi, Otukpo and Yandev in the Southern Guinea Savanna ecological zone of Nigeria to study the responses of ten soybean genotypes to intercropping. The experiment was laid out in a randomised complete block design. The genotypes TGX 1807-19F, NCRI-Soy2, Cameroon Late and TGX 1485-1D had the highest grain yield. All the Land Equivalent Ratio (LER) values were higher than unity, indicating that there is great advantage in intercropping maize with soybean. The yield of soybean was positively correlated with the days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, plant height, pods/plant and leaf area, indicating that an improvement in any of these traits will be reflected in an increase in seed yield. There was a significant genotype × yield × location interaction for all traits. This suggests that none of these factors acted independently. Similarly, the genotype × location interaction was more important than the genotype × year interaction for seed yield, indicating that the yield response of the ten soybean genotypes varied across locations rather than across years. Therefore, using more testing sites for evaluation may be more important than the number of years.

A method for rearing Arhopalus ferus (Mulsant) (Coleoptera Cerambycidae) larvae on a modified artificial diet

2015 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 353-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.M. Barrington ◽  
D.P. Logan ◽  
P.G. Connolly
Keyword(s):  
Introduced Species ◽  
Artificial Diet ◽  
Larval Density ◽  
Pine Bark ◽  
Pine Wood ◽  
Rearing Method ◽  
Sawn Timber

Burnt pine longhorn (BPL) Arhopalus ferus (Mulsant) (Coleoptera Cerambycidae) is an introduced species sometimes found in association with export logs and sawn timber A rearing method was developed to produce larvae of a known age number and quality for control trials Growth of larvae from newly hatched to 5 weeks was measured on a standard cerambycid artificial diet and on modified diets Replacing pine wood with pine bark sawdust increased survival at 5 weeks from 23 to 76 and mean weight from 9 to 21 mg There were significant interactions between the influences of three factors (diet period of rearing initial larval density) on the weight of surviving larvae Individual rearing was preferred for convenience and a standardised method was used to rear 8740 larvae for disinfestation trials Establishment and survival to 6 weeks for these larvae was 97

SOYBEAN AND FLAX SELECTION METHODS

1970 ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
V. М. Lukomets ◽  
S. V. Zelentsov
Keyword(s):  
High Resistance ◽  
Fungal Pathogens ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Pathogenic Fungi ◽  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Physiological Basis ◽  
Oil Crops ◽  
Soybean Genotypes ◽  
Genetically Determined

To improve the effectiveness of the soybeans and oil flax breeding, research to improve existing and develop new breeding methods are conducting in all-Russia Research institute of Oil Crops (Krasnodar). One of the improved methods for the soybean breeding, based on the use of sources of complexes of compensatory genes, is the CCG technology, which allows to create varieties with an increased yield of a heterotic level transmitted along the progeny for the entire life cycle of the variety. For the purpose of non-transgenic production of new traits, a theory of polyploid recombination of the genome (TPR) was formulated, which models the mechanism of the natural formation of polymorphism in the centers of origin of cultivated plants. On the basis of this theory, a method of breeding (TPR-technology) has been developed, which makes it possible to obtain recombinant reploids of soybeans and oil flax with an extended spectrum of traits. Of these reploids, the soybean lines with increased sucking force of the roots, providing high drought resistance, were distinguished; cold-resistant soybean lines, which stand in the phase of shoots of freezing to minus 5 °С; lines of oil flax with complete resistance to flax sickness of soil and high resistance to Fusarium; winter-hardy flax lines that withstand winter frosts down to minus 20–23 °С and ripen one and a half months earlier than spring sowings. Another original developed method is the ODCS-technology for isolating and selecting soybean genotypes with high resistance to fungal pathogens. The physiological basis of ODCS-technology is the blocking of osmotic nutrition of pathogenic fungi due to genetically determined increased osmotic pressure in the tissues of host plants. The practical implementation of CCG-, TPR- and ODKS-technologies in the selection process, allowed to create a whole series of soybean and oil flax varieties with improved or new traits.

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