IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/cfcs97/256978.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Insecticides And Mycorrhizae - Chlorfluazuron

Author

Listed:
  • Chinnery, L. E.
  • Persad-Chinnery, S. B.

Abstract

Insecticides are applied to crops to control insect pests, indirectly increasing crop production. These chemicals can have negative effects on other organisms in the environment that may negate the production gains. Newer insecticides tend to be more specific. Chlorfluazuron (Jupiter®) targets larvae of Lepidoptera and Coleopteira by interfering with chitin synthesis. Thus, killing beneficial Hymenoptera is unlikely. The effects of this insecticide on Glomalean fungi which form (vesicular-) arbuscular mycorrhizae were investigated. Spore germination of Gigaspora gigantea and G. rosea was severely inhibited in high concentration. However when the insecticide was sprayed on corn (Zea mays) seedlings, there was not a significant reduction in previously established mycorrhizae.

Suggested Citation

  • Chinnery, L. E. & Persad-Chinnery, S. B., 1997. "Insecticides And Mycorrhizae - Chlorfluazuron," 33rd Annual Meeting, July 6-12, 1997, Isabela, Puerto Rico 256978, Caribbean Food Crops Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:cfcs97:256978
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.256978
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/256978/files/33-30.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.256978?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:cfcs97:256978. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://cfcs.eea.uprm.edu/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.