The maize weevil, Sitophilus zeamais, is an important field-to-store pest of maize; accounting for huge grain losses globally. Information on genetic variability and trait relationship is crucial to developing farmer-friendly approaches to mitigating the menace of the insect in s...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i44474
Maize (Zea mays L.) is important to nutrition and farmers’ revenue in Nigeria. Forty-four genotypes of the crop were evaluated in Randomized Incomplete Blocks with three replications in 2021 to investigate the extent of genetic variability for grain yield and agro-morphological t...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2025/v37i85632
Sitophilus zeamais is perhaps the most important storage insect pest of maize. The negative health implication of synthetic pesticides necessitates research into botanicals. We investigated the efficacy of ground Piper guineense (particles sizes 150, 300, 600, 1180, and 2360 µm)...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2024/v25i2585
Fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis) is an important indigenous leaf and seed vegetable of West Africa. It is among the neglected and underutilized crops with high nutritional, medicinal and industrial potentials. Twenty five genotypes of fluted pumpkin collected from eleven s...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/16119