Relationships of soil fertility and stem borers damage to yield in maize-based cropping system in Cameroon

Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France

Volumn 42, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 471-479

  Chabi Olaye, Adenirin ^a,b   Nolte, Christian ^b   Schulthess, Fritz ^c   Borgemeister, Christian ^a,c  

^a Institute of Plant Diseases and Plant Protection   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Cameroon)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Africa; Cover crop; Mixed cropping; Soil fertility; Stem borer

Indexed keywords

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; BUSSEOLA FUSCA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; MUCUNA; NOCTUIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33846657471     PISSN: 00379271     EISSN: 21686351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2006.10697481     Document Type: Article

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