• Bedding plants

  Bedding plants are usually annual, biennial or tender perennial plants used in gardens and parks. There is a wide range of plants especially produced to [...] They are easily divided in four different categories: Hardy annual plants which are planted directly into the soil already early in the season: sunflower [...] poppy, stock, clarkia, dianthus, nigella, godetia, eschscholzia Tender annual or perennial plants are planted in a protected environment in late winter: begonia

• Sugar cane

  The sucrose is extracted in mill factories to be processed into sugar or fermented to produce ethanol. The world’s sugar consumption is derived from sugar [...] genus, Saccharum , of the family Poaceae . In terms of production quantity, it is the world’s largest crop. Over time, sugar cane species were interbred and [...] tropical and subtropical crop, it requires plentiful rainfall for a period of more than six months per annum. It does not tolerate severe frosts.

• Pink Bollworm

  preferably on or near the buds and flowers. Each female lay egg about 200-400 in singly or in small groups. Young larva enters the buds or flowers or squares [...] General The pink bollworm is important pest in cotton cultivation. The pink bollworm is native to South Asian countries and has spread to all cotton growing [...] rosette flower owing to flower infestation. Entry hole is plugged with excreta of the insect which are feeding inside the boll. Reduction of lint development

• Gummy stem blight

  extending lesions may occur. In cucumber, the most important symptom is internal fruit rot, which can only be recognized from the outside by the small narrowing [...] General Mycosphaerella cucumis (Didymella bryoniae) is a fungal plant pathogen that causes gummy stem blight. Damage symptoms Mycosphaerella cucumis in [...] fruits. The symptoms on stems, leaves and inside the fruits may occur together or individually. Life cycle and appearance of Gummy stem blight Mycosphaerella

• Codling moth

  loose bark, cracks in trunks or supporting stalks, or other places. Depending on the climate, there are one, two or more generations per year. The fully [...] moth ( Cydia pomonella ) is a notorious, worldwide pest of apple and also occasionally of pear, quince, peach and other fruits. It is very common in Europe [...] flesh, leaving behind brown frass. The entry point is then greatly enlarged as the tissue beneath is eaten away. Infested fruits usually ripen prematurely

• Cut flowers

  Argentina to Mexico and the Caribbean. Is grown from a bulb as a cut flower or sold as a pot plant. Freesia : The freesia is a herbaceous perennial flowering [...] plant are also called rose. There are more than a hundred species and thousands of different cultivars. Hydrangea, or Hydrangea , has its origins in Asia [...] colors and sizes. Hippeastrum is the Latin name for a bulbous plant that originates from Central and South America. It is a bulb plant from the large family

• Tea

  . Tea plant is an economically important plantation crop extensively cultivated in the hills of North-eastern and Southern states. Tea is native of China [...] China. Tea bush is sub-tropical and tropical plant grows well in hot and humid climate. The ideal temperature for growth is 20-30 0 C. It requires well [...] throughout the year. Tea plantation is shade loving plant and grows vigorously under the shade trees. The original species, which produces tea, were C. assamica

• Peanut

  fertility. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics. It is classified as both oil crop due to high oil content and grain legume. Groundnut is majorly [...] agronomic conditions. Groundnut oil is edible oil used as refined oil for cooking. Oil is also used in cosmetic industries, lubricants, soap making, olein [...] raw, roasted or sweetened. Groundnuts are similar in taste and nutritional values to tree nuts, such as almonds and walnuts. Groundnut is legume crop with

• Grapevine powdery mildew

  (Erysiphe necator) is closely synchronized with the vine growth stages and environmental conditions. Understanding its lifecycle is essential to implementing [...] Grapevine powdery mildew (Erysiphe necator) is a widespread fungal disease that poses a serious threat to commercial viticulture worldwide. The pathogen [...] most other grapevine pathogens, it does not require free water (such as rain or dew) to infect, making it a persistent threat throughout the entire growing

• Melon thrips

  General It is polyphagous pest and has been recorded more than 36 plants families. Damage symptoms Nymphs and adults are damaging stage. Infested leaves [...] pupae. Adults are pale yellow or white in colour and 0.8 to 1mm in length, with females slightly larger than males. Life cycle is completed in 20 days under [...] leaves become yellow or brown, also acquire bronze colour, then crinkle and die. Damaged terminal become discoloured, stunted and deformed. They preferably