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*0768 Gokhale, V.G. 1973. Developmental compatibility of several pulses in
the Bruchidae. I. Growth and development of Callosobruchus maculatus
(Fabricius) on host seeds. BULLETIN OF GRAIN TECHNOLOGY, v.11(1):28-31. [En]
[En Abstj (REP.MB-1703)
The growth and development of Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) was studied on
thirteen seed species. On the basis of growth index, moth bean proved to be of
maximum food value to the insect followed by mungbean, pigeonpea, cowpea,
Bengal gram, chickpea, blackgram, pea and hyacinth bean in descending order.
The insect, however, completely failed to develop on soybean, lima bean, French
bean and lentil. The implications of these results have been discussed in light
of some previous inconsistent reports. A considerable variation in the mean
weight of the adults of either sex emerging from the favourable seed species
was observed. Similarly an appreciable difference in the mean weight of the
aaults emerging from different seed-species was also recorded. [AS]
*0769 Rao, H.N.M. ; Ramesh, A.N. ; Kulkarni, S. ; Rao, M.S. 1973. A survey
on storage infestation in Bombay warehouses. BULLETIN OF GRAIN TECHNOLOGY,
v.11(3/4):222-224. [En] (REP.MB-285b)
Twenty four stored pests were found in samples of various agricultural
commodities including rice, wheat, pigeonpeas, mungbean, crushed bone and mamda
cake from 75 warehouses in Bombay, India. [THH]
*0770 Srivastava, B.K. ; Gokhale, V.G. ; Sharma, M.M. 1973. Development of
Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) on the flours of raw
and autoclaved pulses and wheat. JOURNAL OF STORED PRODUCTS RESEARCH,
v.9(2):143-145. [EnJ (REP.MB-2687)
Feeding Tribolium castaneum on mungbean (Vigna radiata), blackgram (V.
mungo), kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), moth bean (V. aconitifolia), peas
(Pisum sativum), pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan), lentil (Lens culinaris), lablab
bean (Dolichos lablab) and wheat (Trtticum aestivum) was studied by using
autoclaved and raw flours under laboratory conditions in India. The highest
number of adults emerged from autoclaved and raw fie,-s was obtained from
mungbean, followed by moth bean. [THH]
*0771 Amaritsuth, Wanbhen ; Amaritsuth, Wisuthi ; Knapp, F.W. 1974. Stored
grain insect studies. 1. Susceptibility of the bean and rice weevil to three
insecticides. 2. Resistance of mung bean and sorghum seed to laboratory
infestations of bean and rice weevil. THAI JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE,
v.7(I):63-70. [EnJ [En Abst] (REP.MB-1863)
Chlorpyrifos was found to be more effective in protecting mungbean and
sorghum seed from the bean and rice weevil than malathion and malathion was
more effective than DDT. Seed germination was not affected by these treatments.
Two varieties of mungbean, Black seed and Golden M-B, were found to be
significantly more resistant to the bean weevil than the local variety.
Noticeable differences in resistance to rice weevil were iound among the
sorghum varieties, but only two were significantly less resistant than the
common Hegari variety now being grown. [AS]
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