6 articles in this issue
Samar M. Esmail, Abdelrazek S. Abdelrhim
Stripe rust (yellow rust), caused by Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici (Pst), is a serious disease of wheat worldwide. Growing resistant cultivars is the most cost-effective and environmentally friendly approach to control the disease. Fifteen Egyptian w... see more
Segun E. Omotoso, Bolajoko A. Akinpelu, Olalekan J. Soyelu
The cowpea weevil, Callosobruchus maculatus (Fabricius), is the most important postharvest insect pest of cowpeas throughout the tropics causing about 70% infestation within 6 months of storage. Control interventions have often been by way of synthetic ch... see more
Hassan M. Abd Elwahab, Youssef A. Darwish, Hosam El-Din A. Ezz El-Din, Ali A. Othman, Gamal M. Abdu-Allah
Recently, nano-insecticide formulations and new insecticide application methods are promised in pest control improvement. Wheat crop is infested by many sucking pests, such as cereal aphids in Upper Egypt. The toxicity of the recommended dose of imidaclop... see more
Aly A. Abd-Ella, Yehia A. Abdel-Rahman, Gaber H. Abou-Elhagag, Ayman S. Gaber
Oystershell scale, Lepidosaphes ulmi (L.) (Homoptera: Diaspididae) is one of the most common scale insects that attacks olive trees in Egypt. Therefore, the population density fluctuation of L. ulmi and its parasitoids, and their relations to some weather... see more
Naima Boughalleb-M'Hamdi, Ibtissem Ben Salem, Najwa BenFradj, Paloma Abad-Campus
Fusarium wilt is a serious disease, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum (FON) and responsible of significant yield losses in watermelon crop in Tunisia. Thirty-nine FON isolates were collected from different infected watermelon fields in Tuni... see more
Naglaa M. Balabel
Weed plants were randomly sampled from different potato fields in some Egyptian villages and were examined for the presence of Ralstonia solanacearum. A total of (1609) plants were sampled over two year's period (2017/2018 and 2018/2019). These weeds... see more