Assessment of damage caused by rodents in some maize varieties in Farshut area, Qena governorate, Egypt

Elrawy, A. A. A.; Mahmoud, N. A.; Baghdadi, S. A. S.; Desoky, A. S. S.

doi:10.21608/aasj.2021.65638.1057

	Assessment of damage caused by rodents in some maize varieties in Farshut area, Qena governorate, Egypt
Archives of Agriculture Sciences Journal
Article 13, Volume 4, Issue 1, April 2021, Page 168-173 PDF (302.72 K)
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.21608/aasj.2021.65638.1057
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Authors
A. A. A. Elrawy ¹; N. A. Mahmoud¹; S. A. S. Baghdadi¹; A. S. S. Desoky²
¹Agricultural Zoology and Nematology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt
²Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt
Abstract
The work herein was carried out to estimate the damage caused by rodent species on some cultivars of yellow and white maize crop at EL-Dahasa village, Farshut district, Qena governorate, Egypt during the summer 2018 and 2019 seasons. The genotypes studied were three Yellow maize (Balady and Single Cross: S. C. 2055, S. C. 2066) and four white maize [ (Single cross: S. C. 4 and S. C. 6) and (three ways cross: T.W. C. 310 and T. W. C. 11)]. The Balady variety is more attacked by rodents compared to the single and triple hybrids, and this may be due to the early maturing variety (80-90 days) compared to the single and triple hybrids (110-120 days). Also, the yellow corn cultivars are more vulnerable to rodents than the white cultivars, due to the fact that they contain a greater amount of oils compared to the white cultivars.
Keywords
rodents; maize; hybrid variety; maturing variety; white cultivars


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