Effectiveness of Repellent Plants for Controlling Potato Tuber Moth (Symmetrischema tangolias) in the Andean Highlands
Alex Villanueva, Fernando Escobal, Héctor Cabrera, Héctor Cántaro-Segura, Luis Diaz-Morales, Daniel Matsusaka · 2025
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Description
Alex Villanueva and co-authors report a 2025 field study on guarding stored potatoes from a moth pest. The moth harms seed potatoes after harvest in highland farms of the Andes. The team tested dried leaves from four local plants laid inside seed bags.
Bags were stored at two sites in Cajamarca, Peru, one high and cool and one lower and warmer, for 187 days. All four plants cut damage and live larva counts next to bags with no leaves. At the warm site, two plants cut harm by roughly four fifths or more. At the cool site, no larvae were found in any treated bag. The work offers a cheap, local guard for seed stock.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alex Villanueva, Fernando Escobal, Héctor Cabrera, Héctor Cántaro-Segura, Luis Diaz-Morales, Daniel Matsusaka |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |