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Wild host plants of legume pod borer Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) in southern Niger and northern Nigeria

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We surveyed three locations in West Africa, two in northern Nigeria and one in southern Niger, for the presence of wild alternative hosts of the legume pod borer (LPB) Maruca vitrata Fabricius, which could serve as natural unstructured refugia for transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)-cowpea. We surveyed a total of 67 sites in proximity to cowpea fields in the Sudan Savannah (Kano, Nigeria), the Northern Guinea Savannah (Zaria, Nigeria) and the Sahel Savannah (Maradi, Niger) ecological zones. The results indicate that alternative host plants for LPB are scarce or absent during the cowpea-growing season in these areas.

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  1. Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

    Venu M. Margam & Larry L. Murdock

  2. Molecular Plant Resistance to Insects and Nematodes Team, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

    Venu M. Margam & Larry L. Murdock

  3. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger (INRAN), Maradi, Niger

    Ibrahim Baoua

  4. Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Station de Kamboinse, 01 BP 476, Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso

    Niango M. Ba

  5. Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR), Ahmadu Bello University, Samaru-Zaria, Nigeria

    Mohammad F. Ishiyaku

  6. Ecological Technology Center, Regulatory Product Safety Center, Monsanto Company, 800 N. Lindbergh Blvd, St Louis, MO, 63167, USA

    Joseph E. Huesing

  7. Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, 61801, USA

    Barry R. Pittendrigh

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Margam, V.M., Baoua, I., Ba, N.M. et al. Wild host plants of legume pod borer Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) in southern Niger and northern Nigeria. Int J Trop Insect Sci 30, 108–114 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742758410000123

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