Evaluation Of Some Plant Products For The Control Of The Bruchid Callosobruchus Subinnotatus Pic. On Bambara Groundnut (Vigna Subterranea (L.) Verdcourt

📄 Project Abstract

Laboratory Evaluations of some plant Products for the Control of adult Callosobruchus subinnotatus Pic. on Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.)) Verdc. was undertaken in 2008 and 2009. The objectives of the research were to investigate the effect of the plant products Artemisia annua crude aqueous extract, Aloe vera gel, Gmelina arborea drupe juice and oils from seeds of Moringa oleifera and Mangifera indica on the mortality of C. subinnotatus at three levels of applications of 2 ml/kg, 4 ml/kg and 8 ml/kg. The treatments were compared with Actellic 2% dust at 10 g/kg, Azadirachta indica seed oil at 2 ml/kg as standards and an untreated control. The mode of activity of the plant products, the effect of the treatments on bambara groundnut seed viability, weight, moisture content and progeny emergence were studied under prevailing laboratory conditions. The design of the experiment was completely randomized design repeated three times. Data was analyzed using statistical softwares M...