Claim · model-written summary
C. limon powder at 10 g per 100 g maize caused 50% insect mortality.
- Material
- JZSRe0
- Treatment
- C. limone1
- Interactor
- Sitophilus zeamais
Sitophilus zeamaise2pest - Outcome
- insect mortalitiese1
- Direction
- less effectivee1
- Value
- 50e1
- Qualifier
- 10e0
Zea maysNot reportedGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“stored maize”
e0“fruit peels of C. limon were evaluated at the rate of 15, 10 and 5 g per 100g of maize grain variety JZSR”
e1“C. limon was less effective providing insect mortalities of 60, 50 and 47.50%, respectively”
e2“maize weevil (Sitophilus zeamais)”
Title
O.I. Mbah; M.O. Okoronkwo African Journal of Agricultural Research 2008. doi:10.5897/ajar.9000039
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- Intervention effect C. odorata powder at 15 g per 100 g maize caused 75% weevil mortality.
- Intervention effect C. odorata powder at 10 g per 100 g maize caused 70% weevil mortality.
- Intervention effect C. odorata powder at 5 g per 100 g maize caused 63.75% weevil mortality.
- Intervention effect C. limon powder at 15 g per 100 g maize caused 60% insect mortality.
- Intervention effect C. limon powder at 5 g per 100 g maize caused 47.50% insect mortality.
- Intervention effect C. odorata at 15 g gave protection comparable to Actellic dust.
- Intervention effect C. odorata at 10 g gave protection comparable to Actellic dust.
- Intervention effect Other botanical treatments protected maize better than untreated control.
- Intervention effect Treatments did not differ significantly in progeny emergence.
- Intervention effect C. odorata powder changed the visual attractiveness of stored grain through greenish brown coloration.