A severe leaf curl disease was observed on ∼45% of the grain amaranth (Amaranthus cruentus L.) plants growing in experimental plots of CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow, India, during the year 2011. The causal pathogen was transmitted through whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci) from infected to healthy A. cruentus...

Knowledge of weed floristic composition and phytosociology are key factors for improving weed management in pastures. Information on weed species that occur in pastures in Northeast Brazil, particularly in Maranhão State is very limited. It is, therefore, important, to search for information to...

Objectives: Despite the availability of many species of amaranth in Kenya, there is inadequate information on their nutritional diversity and how they can be best used in mitigation of malnutrition. Hence, this study was aimed at investigating the nutritional diversity of five leafy amaranth...

In 2008, the invasive tomato red spider mite Tetranychus evansi (Acari: Tetranychidae), a pest of solanaceous crops, was identified for the first time as the cause of serious damage on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.; Solanaceae) crops in Benin. Since then, frequent outbreaks have been observed on...

In the past 20 years, very little progress has been achieved in reducing food insecurity, child malnutrition and hunger in Africa. Under-nutrition and micronutrients deficiencies are widespread and affect mainly women and children. To address these problems, increased consumption of African leafy...

Based on literatures of alien invasive plants in China, the scientific names of sixteen species are revised, since their records in the Chinese literatures are confused; the same species with different scientific names were used by different authors in different regions and in different times, even ...

Insect pests have not been recorded for amaranth (Amaranthus cruentus L.) in Brazil. Generalized plant lodging was observed after the grain-filling period in an irrigated commercial amaranth crop (7 ha), located in Cristalina, state of Goiás (Brazil), which was cultivated between Aug. and Dec....

The overlapping nutritional and medicinal benefits of green leafy vegetables provide a better support for human wellbeing. There are hundreds of edible herbs which are used in day to day kitchen in different forms. The usages of green leafy vegetables are limited to a specific geographical...

The introduction of products of underutilized field crops into the worldwide developed market is a very complex system with many barriers. Based on Slovenian experiences of establishing certification of organic agriculture, research in underutilized field crops and all activities in the projects,...

Mexico is considered to be one of the centers of origin of grain amaranth species. Recently, plants with abnormal anatomical features were observed in experimental fields established in Central Mexico. The most noticeable symptoms, which consisted of excessive stem and bud proliferation, mosaics...