Ecological Studies and Effect Pruning Operator on Infestation of Date Palm Trees with Red Palm Weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Oliv.) in Sharkia Governorate, Egypt دراسات بیئیه وتاثیرعملیه التقلیم على اصابه اشجار نخیل البلح بحشره سوسه النخیل الحمراء فى محافظه الشرقیه مصر.

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 371-377
Author(s):  
Olfat Arafa ◽  
Y. Tahany
Keyword(s):  
Date Palm ◽  
Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus ◽  
Ecological Studies ◽  
Red Palm Weevil ◽  
Palm Trees ◽  
Palm Weevil

scholarly journals AN EVALUATION OF INVASIVE PEST, RED PALM WEEVIL RHYNCHOPHORUS FERRUGINEUS (OLIVIER, 1790) (COLEOPTERA, CURCULIONIDAE) POPULATION IN IRAQ

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-218
Author(s):  
Mohammed M. Alderawii ◽  
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Aqeel A. Alyousuf ◽  
Samir A. Hasan ◽  
Jasim K. Mohammed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Date Palm ◽  
Monitoring Program ◽  
Invasive Pest ◽  
Palm Tree ◽  
Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus ◽  
Red Palm Weevil ◽  
Palm Trees ◽  
Palm Weevil ◽  
Baited Traps ◽  
Management Protocol

The Red Palm Weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier, 1790) is a devastating invasive pest of palm trees, invading the Iraqi date palm tree in 2015 for the first time in Safwan county, Basrah province. The Red Palm weevil has been categorized as a quarantine pest of date palm trees worldwide. In this study, a five years monitoring program has been achieved by scouting the invasive pest RPW population in Safwan county by using visual sampling and Pheromone baited traps. The results indicated that the number of infested palms, increased from 12 trees in 2015 to 111 in 16 orchards in 2016. The number of the infested palms was minimized to 3 trees in the county in 2019 due to the management protocol of the Ministry of Agriculture. Furthermore, the results of RPW adults appeared monthly in the county with two activity peaks during the moderate-temperature-months. In conclusion, the quarantine and management protocol of RPW decreased the population of the invasive pest which did not spread to other districts of Iraq.

Quarantine Protocol Against Coleopteran Borers in Date Palm Offshoots Using Eco2 Fume Gas

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 190-192
Author(s):  
H.A. El-Shafie ◽  
M.E. Mohammed ◽  
A.A. Sallam
Keyword(s):  
Date Palm ◽  
Exposure Period ◽  
Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus ◽  
Internal Tissue ◽  
Red Palm Weevil ◽  
Rhinoceros Beetle ◽  
Planting Material ◽  
Palm Weevil ◽  
Longhorn Beetle ◽  
The World

Date palm offshoots represent an important source of planting material in many date palm-growing countries around the world. Infestation by the red palm weevil ((RPW) Rhynchophorus ferrugineus), the longhorn beetle ((LHB) Jebusaea hammerschmidti) and the rhinoceros beetle ((OB) Oryctes spp.) hinders commercialization and movement of these offshoots. An effective quarantine protocol, with exposure period of 72 h at 25 °C using ECO2FUME (EF) with phosphine concentration of 1500 ppm has been developed for date palm offshoots against these coleopteran internal tissue borers.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on the Microbial Communities of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Red Palm Weevil)-Infected and Healthy Palm Trees

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Alshammari ◽  
Meshari Alazmi ◽  
Naimah A. Alanazi ◽  
Abdel Moneim E. Sulieman ◽  
Vajid N. Veettil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Communities ◽  
16S Rrna Gene Sequencing ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus ◽  
Tree Trunk ◽  
Red Palm Weevil ◽  
Healthy Tree ◽  
Palm Trees ◽  
Infected Tree ◽  
Palm Weevil

AbstractSeveral studies have investigated palm trees’ microbiota infected with red palm weevil (RPW) (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus), the major pest of palm trees. This study compared the microbial communities of infected and uninfected palm trees in the Hail region, Northern Saudi Arabia, determined by high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing by Illumina MiSeq. The results indicated that taxonomic diversity variation was higher for infected tree trunk than the healthy tree trunk. Soil samples from the vicinity of healthy and infected trees did not have a significant variation in bacterial diversity. Myxococcota, Acidobacteriota, and Firmicutes were the dominant phyla in RPW-infected tree trunk, and Pseudomonadaceae was the most prominent family. This study is the first report on the characterization of RPW-infected and healthy palm trees’ microbiome.

scholarly journals Haplotype-resolved genome assembly enables gene discovery in the red palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme B. Dias ◽  
Musaad A. Altammami ◽  
Hamadttu A. F. El-Shafie ◽  
Fahad M. Alhoshani ◽  
Mohamed B. Al-Fageeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genome Assembly ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Insect Pest ◽  
Single Copy ◽  
Gene Content ◽  
Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus ◽  
Red Palm Weevil ◽  
Transcriptomic Data ◽  
Palm Trees ◽  
Palm Weevil

AbstractThe red palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is an economically-important invasive species that attacks multiple species of palm trees around the world. A better understanding of gene content and function in R. ferrugineus has the potential to inform pest control strategies and thereby mitigate economic and biodiversity losses caused by this species. Using 10x Genomics linked-read sequencing, we produced a haplotype-resolved diploid genome assembly for R. ferrugineus from a single heterozygous individual with modest sequencing coverage ($$\sim$$ ∼ 62x). Benchmarking against conserved single-copy Arthropod orthologs suggests both pseudo-haplotypes in our R. ferrugineus genome assembly are highly complete with respect to gene content, and do not suffer from haplotype-induced duplication artifacts present in a recently published hybrid assembly for this species. Annotation of the larger pseudo-haplotype in our assembly provides evidence for 23,413 protein-coding loci in R. ferrugineus, including over 13,000 predicted proteins annotated with Gene Ontology terms and over 6000 loci independently supported by high-quality Iso-Seq transcriptomic data. Our assembly also includes 95% of R. ferrugineus chemosensory, detoxification and neuropeptide-related transcripts identified previously using RNA-seq transcriptomic data, and provides a platform for the molecular analysis of these and other functionally-relevant genes that can help guide management of this widespread insect pest.

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