| dc.contributor.author | Onzo, A. |
| dc.contributor.author | Hanna, R. |
| dc.contributor.author | Toko, M. |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-04T10:58:29Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-12-04T10:58:29Z |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 |
| dc.identifier.citation | Onzo, A., Hanna, R. & Toko, M. (2014). Mix‐planting pubescent and glabrous cassava affects abundance of Typhlodromalus aripo and its prey mite Mononychellus tanajoa. Journal of Applied Entomology, 138(4), 297-306. |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0931-2048 |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/1000 |
| dc.description | Article first published online: 7 OCT 2013. |
| dc.description.abstract | There is an increasing awareness that vegetation diversity can affect herbi-vore and natural enemy abundance and that plants can play a major rolein directly manipulating natural enemy abundance for protection againstherbivore attacks. Using data from cassava fields, we aimed at (i) testingthe capacity of the predatory miteTyphlodromalus aripoto control the her-bivorous miteMononychellus tanajoain a chemical exclusion trial; and (ii)testing, based on the differential preference byT. aripofor cassava culti-vars, how combinations of two morphologically different cassava cultivarswith differential suitability to the predator can improve its populationdensities on the non-favourable cultivar, thereby reducingM. tanajoaden-sities with subsequent increases in cassava yield. The study was conductedin a cassava field in Benin, West Africa. The experiments confirmed thatT. aripoeffectively suppressesM. tanajoapopulations on both cultivarsand showed, in the no-predator-exclusion experiments, that cultivar com-binations have significant effects onM. tanajoaandT. aripodensities.Indeed,T. aripoload on the non-preferred cultivar was lowest in subplotswhere the proportion ofT. aripo-preferred cultivar was also low, while,and as expected,M. tanajoaload on the non-preferred cultivar showeddecreasing trends with increasingT. aripodensities. The possible mecha-nisms by which cultivar mixing could increase predator load on the non-favourable cultivar were discussed. Our data showed that appropriatecultivar combinations effectively compensate for morphologically relateddifferences in natural enemy abundance on a normally predator-deficientcultivar, resulting in lower pest densities on the non-favourable cultivar.In practical terms, this strategy could, in part, enhance adoption of culti-vars that do not support sufficient levels of natural enemies for pest con-trol. |
| dc.format.extent | 297-306 |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.subject | Manihot Esculenta |
| dc.subject | Phytoseiidae |
| dc.subject | Tetranychidae |
| dc.subject | Biological Control |
| dc.subject | Cassava |
| dc.subject | Mononychellus
Tanajoa |
| dc.title | Mixplanting pubescent and glabrous cassava affects abundance of Typhlodromalus aripo and its prey mite Mononychellus tanajoa |
| dc.type | Journal Article |
| dc.description.version | Peer Review |
| cg.contributor.crp | Roots, Tubers and Bananas |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Université de Parakou |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture |
| cg.coverage.region | Africa |
| cg.coverage.region | West Africa |
| cg.coverage.country | Nigeria |
| cg.isijournal | ISI Journal |
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR and advanced research institute |
| cg.iitasubject | Cassava |
| cg.journal | Journal of Applied Entomology |
| cg.howpublished | Formally Published |
| cg.accessibilitystatus | Limited Access |
| local.dspaceid | 77929 |
| cg.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jen.12084 |
