Pest management concept against true bugs (Heteroptera) harmful to Jatropha curcas (Euphorbiaceae) energy plantations in Nicaragua.
Project management Führer Erwin
organizational unit Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection
duration 01.01.1994 to-
31.12.1997
Research project (§ 26 & § 27)
Program none
Funder none
Competencies
Abstract
In Nicaragua Jatropha curcas is grown in plantations as an oil crop for producing biological fuel. True bugs, infesting fruit and seeds, cause considerable yield losses. Identity, life cycle characteristis, and epidemiology of the most important pest species are investigated in order to generate an integrated pest management concept. Possibilities to avoid chemical control and to use entomophilic fungi for the biological control of epidemic bug populations are specificly considered.
keywords entomophilous fungi organic control IPM
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Project staff
Erwin Führer
O.Univ.Prof.i.R. Dr.phil. Erwin Führer
erwin.fuehrer@boku.ac.at
Project Leader
01.01.1994 - 31.12.1997