دراسة تأثير حلم الغبار (Acarina : Tetranychidae)‎ (Oligonychus afrasiaticus (McGregor في الخواص الفيزيوكيميائية للتمور في وادي حضرموت، اليمن

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A study on the effect of date palm dust mite Oligonychus afrasiaticus (McGregor)‎ (Acarin : Tetranychidae)‎ on the physiochemical characters of three different date varieties in Wadi Hadhramout, Yemen

Joint Authors

باصحيح، جمال سعيد
باعنقود، سعيد عبد الله

Source

مجلة وقاية النبات العربية

Publisher

Arab Society for Plant Protection

Publication Date

2000-12-31

Country of Publication

Lebanon

No. of Pages

4

Main Subjects

Agriculture

English Abstract

Date palm trees in Wadi Hadhramout are usually attacked by several pests, the most important ones are the lesser date moth, date palm stem borers and the date palm dust mite.

In the last few yean, infestation of the dust mite was widely spread damaging 80°» of the yield in some areas.

This study was earned out in September 1998 at Seiyun Agricultural Research Station to determine the effect of the dust mite on physiochemical characters of three varieties of dates The results showed that the dust mite had an adverse effect on some of physiochemical characters of dates in Wadi Hadhramout.

Infested dates of Mijraf.

Madim and Hamra varieties were smaller in size, malformed and unripe, compared with healthy ones.

They 3lso had lower content of total soluble solids panicularly sugars, and lower percentage of water content compared with the healthy ones.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-968488

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