Comparative efficacy of some indigenous plant extracts against the pulse beetle callosobruchus maculatus f. (coleoptera: Bruchidae)

Biological Agriculture and Horticulture

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-150

  Babu, A ^a   Raja, N ^a   Albert, S ^a   Ignacimuthu, S ^a   Dorn, S ^b  

^a LOYOLA COLLEGE   (India)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; PEST CONTROL; PLANT EXTRACT;

ABRUS PRECATORIUS; BRUCHIDAE; CALLOSOBRUCHUS MACULATUS; CASSIA SIAMEA; COLEOPTERA; COLEUS AROMATICUS; CRATEVA ADANSONII; MORINDA TINCTORIA; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

EID: 0033391835     PISSN: 01448765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01448765.1999.9754833     Document Type: Article

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