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Review
. 2022 Jan 1;8(1):e08703.
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08703. eCollection 2022 Jan.

Management of stored grain pest with special reference to Callosobruchus maculatus, a major pest of cowpea: A review

Kalpna  1 , Younis Ahmad Hajam  1 , Rajesh Kumar  2
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Review

Management of stored grain pest with special reference to Callosobruchus maculatus, a major pest of cowpea: A review

Kalpna et al. Heliyon. .

Abstract

Bruchids are most pernicious pest of stored grain pulses, especially in the tropical and subtropical areas. They penetrate into the fully grown matured pods, grains in fields and also during post-harvest storage. Among bruchids, Callosobruchus maculatus is the prominent pest having ubiquitous distribution. Chemical/synthetic insecticides provides adequate control against the C. maculatus on the pulses. However, the use of synthetic insecticides induces adverse health outcomes in agricultural workers and many causes various diseases such as cancers, genomic damage, oxidative stress, neurological disorders and respiratory, metabolic and thyroid effects. Therefore, alternative effective, safe and sustainable pest control, integration of different compatible methods should be taken into considerations. One of the possible managements might be use of traditional as well modern pest management practices. Traditional techniques include sealed containers, inert materials, harvesting time, alternate host, intercropping, storing un-threshed pulses, cleanliness, vegetable oil etc. Modern techniques such as temperature, freezing and heating, radiation treatments, resistance varieties, natural control, botanical extracts, chemical and microbial, transgenic approach, cold plasma treatments etc. thus integrated pest management might be alternative approach to combat the effect of pest. Therefore, present review aims to considers various measures for the handling of bruchids with special reference to Callosobruchus maculatus and integrated molecular inventions to decrease bruchids populations and enhance pulse productivity in pulses.

Keywords: Bruchids; Callosobruchus; Management; Pest; Pulses.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Life cycle of Callosobruchus maculatus.
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Financial Year (FY) wise India's pulse production during (2002–2021) (Source: Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (India), Statista, 2021).
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Pest management practices for stored grain pests.
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