A5081411516- Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Research on scale insects
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Music History and Culture
- Insect Resistance and Genetics
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Cinema and Media Studies
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Plant and animal studies
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Coal and Its By-products
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management
- Diptera species taxonomy and behavior
- Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
- Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies
- Hemiptera Insect Studies
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
- Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
University of Washington
2014-2022
Dow Chemical (United States)
2015-2020
Ripley Hospital
2006-2019
Research & Development Corporation
2016
University of Georgia
2008-2015
Ohio University
2005-2012
Linde (United States)
2011
Okinawa Prefectural Agricultural Research Center
2007
Goldsmiths University of London
1999-2000
CAB International
1987-1999
The removal of crop residues for bio-energy production reduces the formation soil organic carbon (SOC) and therefore can have negative impacts on fertility. Pyrolysis (thermoconversion biomass under anaerobic conditions) generates liquid or gaseous fuels a char (biochar) recalcitrant against decomposition. Biochar be used to increase SOC cycle nutrients back into agricultural fields. In this case, as potential energy source well sequester (C) improve quality. To evaluate agronomic biochar,...
Pyrolysis is the anaerobic thermal conversion of biomass for energy production. It offers an option returning carbon and nutrients to soil while producing energy. The Ultisols in southeastern United States have inherently low organic fertility, may benefit from addition biochar pyrolysis. Our objectives were evaluate effect peanut hull pine chip biochars on nutrients, corn ( Zea mays L.) nutrient status yield a Kandiudult two growing seasons (2006 2007). Experiments each source conducted as...
Research on Lepidopterous stem borers of Nigerian cereals began in 1951. Preliminary surveys finished 1954 and from 1955 to 1961 the author studied these pests Northern Western Nigeria. Guineacorn ( Sorghum vulgare ) millet Pennisetum typhoides are most important cereal crops Nigeria, maize Zea mays is only any importance The sown early wet season, which alternates with a dry season two seven months, mature three five months. They cultivated by hand few farmers grow more than one acre...
Music's ‘malleability’ (Taylor 1997) has always facilitated its export and import from one location to another. Indeed, such processes are central the creation dissemination of new musical forms. Yet in our contemporary globalised world, occur ever more extensively rapidly giving rise forms appropriation syncretism. Record companies developed world find audiences developing (Laing 1986). Musicians West appropriate non-Western music, sometimes collaboratively (Feld 1994; Taylor 1997)....
Interest in the use of biochar from pyrolysis biomass to sequester C and improve soil productivity has increased; however, variability physical chemical characteristics raises concerns about effects on processes. Of particular concern is effect N dynamics. The dynamics was evaluated a Norfolk loamy sand with without NH4NO3. High-temperature (HT) (≥500°C) low-temperature (LT) (≤400°C) biochars peanut hull (Arachis hypogaea L.), pecan shell (Carya illinoinensis Wangenh. K. Koch), poultry...
Abstract Larvae of Aphidoletes Kieffer and Monobremia feed exclusively as predators on aphids. The taxonomic status these genera their included species is reviewed new generic specific synonymies are given. A. aphidimyza (Rondani), urticariae (Kieffer), abietis thompsoni Möhn M. subterranea (Kieffer) accepted good a neotype designated for . Diagnostic characters indicated the male genitalia, female wings larval skins illustrated. Published information biology, particularly commonest ,...
Bulking agents are used in manure composting order to provide optimal bulk density and aeration of the mixture; they also have an impact on quality final product. Biochar (carbonized organic materials) seems ideal properties for use as bulking agents. In this study, a significant increase CO2 respiration rates from poultry litter amended with biochar was found. The first maxima increased by 44% total 28%. conversion materials either compost or may depend nature both applications supplement...
Sorghum midge, Contarinia sorghicola (Coq.), was discovered in Nigeria 1953, and a survey which indicated the widespread occurrence of midge country followed by investigations reported this paper. Food-plants are guineacorn ( vulgare, sensu lato ), annually provides about two million tons grain for human consumption, wild grasses, Andropogon gayanus arundinaceum . At Samaru, Zaria, Northern Nigeria, midges emerge from infested heads early morning with maximum emergence between 7.45 8.15 a.m....
The cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene in mitochondrial DNA of 53 larvae Contarinia maculipennis Felt from flower buds various host plants, collected Hawaii, Japan and Thailand was analysed. Monophyly the clade including C. supported. There no sequential variation within specimens Hawaii Japan, which differed one another by 6 bp (1.37%). Three haplotypes were recognized but differences Hawaiian Japanese small. Overall, there 146 deduced amino acid residues. It is therefore concluded that a...
Abstract The African rice gall midge, Orseolia oryzivora sp. n., is described and illustrated from adults of both sexes, larvae pupae collected in West Africa. This species had previously been misidentified as O. oryzae (Wood-Mason), which a major pest Asia, but the two are morphologically distinct larval, pupal adult stages. All available material has examined, recorded cultivated Senegal, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast, Nigeria Sudan. Larvae Paspalum Volta differ typical some morphological...
Biochar can potentially increase soil fertility and sequester carbon by incorporating nutrients stable black into the soil; however its effect on nitrogen (N) (C) processes is not well understood. A defined methodology to characterize biochar necessary predict how specific biochars will affect C N mineralization. We amended a Tifton (Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Plinthic Kandiudults) with peanut hull (Arachis hypogaea; PH; 2.1% N) pine chip (Pinus taeda; PC: 0.4% at application rates of 1%...
Surfactant-resistant polymersomes have substantial potential to be used as delivery vehicles in industrial applications. Herein, we report the preparation of poly(ethylene oxide)-block-polystyrene copolymers with ultrahigh hydrophobic-block molecular weights through RAFT dispersion polymerization, which allows polymerization-induced self-assembly into well-defined ultrathick membranes up ∼47 nm. These significantly enhance resistance against surfactant solubilization vesicles, improving...
Abstract The carob gall midge, previously known as Eumarchalia gennadii (Marchal), is formally assigned to Asphondylia H. Loew, and Del Guercio synonymised with . Specimens of reared from pod galls on ( Ceratonia siliqua ) during biological research by G. M. Orphanides in Cyprus seem be morphologically indistinguishable specimens him Capsicum annuum, Capparis spinosa, Urginea maritima, Asphodelus fistulosus, Solanum tuberosum, Hypericum crispum Sinapis spp. Possible reasons for this...