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World Vegetable Center
Nonprofit•Tainan City, Taiwan•
About: World Vegetable Center is a nonprofit organization based out in Tainan City, Taiwan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Agriculture. The organization has 294 authors who have published 364 publications receiving 8785 citations. The organization is also known as: AVRDC, Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed how pest and plant disease management among smallholder farmers has changed along with the process of land use intensification, the aim being to identify constraints as well as possible approaches to the use of more sustainable pest and disease control practices.
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TL;DR: In this article, a study quantifies the adoption of improved amaranth varieties in Kenya and Tanzania, and the extent to which these result from international vegetable breeding research conducted by the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) and partners.
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TL;DR: This review specifically focuses on the discovery and development of entomopathogenic virus and fungi-based biopesticides against major pests of vegetable legumes and brassicas in Asia and Africa.
Abstract: Vegetables are one of the important crops which could alleviate poverty and malnutrition among the smallholder farmers in tropical Asia and Africa. However, a plethora of pests limit the productivity of these crops, leading to economic losses. Vegetable producers overwhelmingly rely on chemical pesticides in order to reduce pest-caused economic losses. However, over-reliance on chemical pesticides poses serious threats to human and environmental health. Hence, biopesticides offer a viable alternative to chemical pesticides in sustainable pest management programs. Baculoviruses such as nucleopolyhedrovirus (NPV) and granulovirus (GV) have been exploited as successful biological pesticides in agriculture, horticulture and forestry. Maruca vitrata multiple nucleocapsid NPV (MaviMNPV) was found to be a unique baculovirus specifically infecting pod borer on food legumes, and it has been successfully developed as a biopesticide in Asia and Africa. Entomopathogenic fungi also offer sustainable pest management options. Several strains of Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana have been tested and developed as biopesticides in Asia and Africa. This review specifically focuses on the discovery and development of entomopathogenic virus and fungi-based biopesticides against major pests of vegetable legumes and brassicas in Asia and Africa. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry.
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18 Aug 2011
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TL;DR: Polerovirus infection was detected by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in 29 pepper plants and one black nightshade plant collected from fields in India, Indonesia, Mali, Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan.
Abstract: Polerovirus infection was detected by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in 29 pepper plants (Capsicum spp) and one black nightshade plant (Solanum nigrum) sample collected from fields in India, Indonesia, Mali, Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan At least two representative samples for each country were selected to generate a general polerovirus RT-PCR product of 14 kb length for sequencing Sequence analysis of the partial genome sequences revealed the presence of pepper vein yellows virus (PeVYV) in all 13 samples A 1990 Australian herbarium sample of pepper described by serological means as infected with capsicum yellows virus (CYV) was identified by sequence analysis of a partial CP sequence as probably infected with a potato leaf roll virus (PLRV) isolate
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Raghavan Srinivasan | 80 | 959 | 37821 |
Pepijn Schreinemachers | 30 | 92 | 3004 |
Ray-Yu Yang | 24 | 49 | 1704 |
Thomas Dubois | 23 | 77 | 1716 |
Peter Hanson | 23 | 63 | 1594 |
Venkatesan G. Sengoda | 22 | 36 | 1319 |
Andreas W. Ebert | 21 | 43 | 1214 |
Lawrence Kenyon | 21 | 55 | 1209 |
Victor Afari-Sefa | 21 | 77 | 1160 |
Ramakrishnan M. Nair | 20 | 62 | 1313 |
Ramasamy Srinivasan | 19 | 72 | 1126 |
Wen-Shi Tsai | 18 | 48 | 863 |
R. Venuprasad | 18 | 31 | 1950 |
Roland Schafleitner | 17 | 58 | 1102 |
N. P. S. Dhillon | 16 | 41 | 642 |