This chapter describes the nematode parasites of food legumes, including broad bean,
chickpea, lentil, mung bean, cowpea, soyabean, common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and …

Achieving food security remains a pressing challenge for small-scale farmers, especially in
sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Ongoing climate change, invasive noxious weeds …

Associational resistance to herbivore and pathogen attack is a well documented ecological
phenomenon and, if applied to agriculture, may reduce impact of pests and diseases on …

The antibacterial effect of Mexican marigold (Tagetes erecta) leaf extract at room
temperature against 10 gram positive multidrug resistant bacterial isolates including …

A glasshouse experiment to control RKN (Meloidogyne javanica) on tomato with aqueous
extracts of marigold (Tagetes erecta) leaves and flowers, castor beans (Ricinus communis) …

Tagetes is one of the well established and well researched plant materials that are
extensively used owing to their enumerable beneficial properties. Extraction of its bioactive …

The essential oil of cultivated Tagetes patula L. flowers was obtained by hydro-distillation
(yielded 0.18%) and analyzed by GC-MS. The oil has a typically pungent odour and is …

Permaculture-based farming systems are relatively unexplored in the humid tropics. A few
studies have shown that permaculture in such areas has diverse roles and contributions, but …

Severe blight symptom was recorded on Tagetes erecta L. and Tagetes patula L. during the
tenure of January to April 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Samples were collected from …

An investigation was carried out to record the pathogenic fungi associated with foliage blight
of two species of marigold (Tagetes erecta L. and Tagetes patula L.) under Bangladesh …