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The sweetpotato leaf beetle, Typophorus nigritus viridicyaneus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), an emerging pest in Jamaica: Distribution and host plant resistance. (235)

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D. Michael Jackson
USDA-ARS, U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, Charleston, SC. U.S.A.
J. Lawrence
Ohio State University. Columbus. OH, U.S.A.; Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), Kingston, Jamaica
K.M. Dalip
Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), Kingston, Jamaica
P. Chung
Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), Kingston. Jamaica
D. Clarke-Harris
Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), Kingston, Jamaica
J.R. Bohac
USDA-ARS, U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, Charleston, SC. U.S.A.
S. Tolin
Virginia Tech. University, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.
C. Edwards
Ohio State University. Columbus. OH, U.S.A.
D.R. Seal
University of Florida. Homestead, FL. U.S.A.
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Keywords

Sweetpotato
Ipomoea batatas
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Leaf beetle
Caribbean

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The sweetpotato leaf beetle, Typophorus nigritus viridicyaneus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), an emerging pest in Jamaica: Distribution and host plant resistance. (235). (2003). Tropical Agriculture, 80(4). https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/ojs/index.php/ta/article/view/1297
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Abstract

The sweetpotato leaf beetle, Typophorus nigritus viridicyaneus (Crotch) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) is an emerging pest of sweetpotato, Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. (Convolvulaceae) in Jamaica. Heavy infestations of sweetpotato leaf beetles were reported primarily from sweetpotato fields in St Ann, Clarendon, and St Catherine Parishes in the central portion of Jamaica. Several sweetpotato genotypes from the USDA-ARS sweetpotato breeding programme at the U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, Charleston, SC, U.S.A., were evaluated in Jamaica for resistance to the larval stages of this pest. Genotypes White Regal and CD-P53R were the most promising, exhibiting resistance to sweetpotato leaf beetle larvae in the fields in Jamaica.
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