Pests and Diseases of Tropical Crops: Handbook of pests and diseases

Africa America Aphid Aphididae areas Ascomycete Asia attack bacterium Banana Basidiomycete beans beetles blight bolls Borer brown bugs caterpillars Chemical control chlorotic Chrysomelidae CIE map Citrus CMI map coffee Common name control strategy Cosmopolitan cotton cultivars Curculionidae damage defoliate develop dieldrin disease Distribution Africa Eggs are laid endosulfan Epidemiology and transmission Family feed female flowers fruit fungi fungicides Fungus Fungus imperfectus Fusarium grain grown hatch history Eggs Hosts Main India infection Infest foliage insecticides instars larvae Larvae bore leaf spot lesions maize Mealybug mites moth necrotic nematodes Noctuidae occur Oomycete palm Pan-tropical pathogen pest Pest status pesticides plants pods polyphagous potato produce Pseudococcidae pupa Pyralidae resistance rice rot caused Scarabaeidae Scientific name seed seedlings serious pest shoots soil sorghum species spores spray stem suck sap sugar cane Symptoms Tephritidae Thrips tissue trees tropical tubers usually vector virus Weevil Widespread wilt yellow young