Paterson's curse (Echium plantagineum L.) is an annual/biennial species in the family Boraginaceae. Native to N.W. Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and Atlantic Western Europe, it is a noxious weed in Australia and has spread over 30 million ha resulting in >A$250 million annual losses to agricultural ...
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Zhu XiaoCheng; Gopurenko, D.; Skoneczny, D.; Lepschi, B. J.; Spencer, M. A.; Gurr, G. M.; Callaway, R. M.; Serrano, M.; Weston, L. A.
Publisher
Weeds Society of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Citation
20th Australasian Weeds Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 11-15 September 2016, 2016, pp 157-161
Parthenium hysterophorus L. is non-native invasive plant species belongs to the family Asteraceae. Currently it is a notorious weed in Ethiopia. Socio-economic impacts as well as the local people's perception towards P. hysterophorus are poorly understood. Thus, the aim of this study was to...
Author(s)
Niguse Hundessa; Kifle Belachew
Publisher
IJARIT Research Foundation, Moulvibazar, Bangladesh
Citation
International Journal of Agricultural Research, Innovation and Technology, 2016, 6, 2, pp 5-11
The EFSA Panel on Plant Health was requested by the European Commission to assess the risk to plant health in the European Union if the Australian bud-galling wasp Trichilogaster acaciaelongifoliae was released for the control of the invasive alien plant Acacia longifolia in Portugal. T....
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Authority, E. F. S.
Publisher
European Food Safety Authority, Parma, Italy
Citation
EFSA Journal, 2015, 13, 4, pp 4079
This paper describes the innovation process surrounding the development of strategies for sustainable management of Prosopis spp. in Baringo County of Kenya over a 10-year period. The findings are from an assessment made under the JOint Learning in Innovation Systems in African Agriculture...
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Chengole, J. M.; Welimo, M.; Belmin, R.; Ng'ang'a, T.; Kamau, G.
Publisher
French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France
Citation
Innovation in smallholder farming in Africa: recent advances and recommendations. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Agricultural Innovation Systems in Africa (AISA), Nairobi, Kenya, 29-31 May 2013, 2014, pp 75-78
Leucaena leucocephala (Fabaceae) has become naturalized, and often invasive, in several tropical, subtropical and warm temperate countries worldwide, following deliberate introductions for agroforestry. In South Africa, despite high levels of seed production, the plant is still considered to be an...
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Olckers, T.; Sharratt, M. E. J.
Publisher
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Citation
Proceedings of the XIV International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 2-7 March 2014, 2014, pp 95
Mesquite, Prosopis species (Fabaceae), is an extremely hardy, long-lived, thorny weed of arid systems. Native to the Americas, it now forms extensive monocultures in Australia, Africa, the Middle East and the Asian subcontinent. In 1987, a mesquite biocontrol program was initiated in South Africa,...
Author(s)
Klinken, R. D. van
Publisher
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Citation
Proceedings of the XIV International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 2-7 March 2014, 2014, pp 100-101
Fruit flies are among the most important pests of fruits and vegetables in the world. The invasive fruit fly Bactrocera invadens (Diptera: Tephritidae) was first detected in Africa in 2003 in Kenya, has spread to at least 27 countries attacking a wide variety of crops. It causes reduction of fruit...
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José, L.; Cugala, D.; Santos, L.; Meyer, M. de
Publisher
RUFORUM, Kampala, Uganda
Citation
RUFORUM Fourth Biennial Conference, Maputo, Mozambique, 19-25 July 2014, 2014, pp 497-498
Author(s)
Coetzee, J.; Thum, R.
Publisher
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, Hilo, USA
Citation
Proceedings of the XIII International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, 11-16 September, 2011, 2013, pp 41
Parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus L.) is an invasive alien species whose mode of introduction is uncertain, although it was first recorded in Ethiopia in 1968. Since then it has been colonizing disturbed sites very aggressively, impacting pastures, croplands and forests by outcompeting...
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Lisanework Nigatu; Sharma, J. J.
Publisher
African Crop Science Society, Entebbe, Uganda
Citation
11th African Crop Science Proceedings, Sowing innovations for sustainable food and nutrition security in Africa. Entebbe, Uganda, 14-17 October, 2013, 2013, pp 377-381
Two biotypes of Chromolaena odorata (L.) King & Robinson (Asteraceae: Eupatorieae) are invading sub-Saharan Africa. One (the Asian/West African biotype) is spreading from tropical West Africa and the other (the southern African biotype) from south-eastern Africa. The area invaded by the former is...
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Zachariades, C.; Rensburg, S. J. van; Witt, A. B. R.
Publisher
ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
Citation
Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Biological Control and Management of Chromolaena odorata and Other Eupatorieae, 1-2 November 2010, Nairobi, Kenya, 2013, pp 20-27