Insect damage to chickpea root nodules

    Sithanantham, S and Rupela, O P (1986) Insect damage to chickpea root nodules. International Chickpea Newsletter, 15. pp. 12-13.

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    Abstract

    Since 1976, insect damage in the root nodules of chickpea [Cicer arietinum] has occasionally been observed in Andhra Pradesh, India. The symptoms of this damage are small holes in the nodule surface which lead into extensive tunnelling in the internal tissues. Up to 25% of the nodules were damaged in samples in 1978. Attempts to find the insects responsible for such damage were unsuccessful until 1985 when large numbers of dipteran larvae (up to 21) were found in damaged nodules. These were later identified as an undescribed species of the phorid Metopina. This is the first record of a dipteran feeding on nodules of chickpea.

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    Subjects: Mandate crops > Chickpea
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    Date Deposited: 10 Oct 2011 06:02
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    URI: http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/2135
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