Toward tailored interventions in plantain ( L.) industry: Insights from heterogeneity and constraints to plantain-based cropping systems in South-Benin.

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Market opportunities seizing capability and fish farming firm performance: A dynamic managerial capability perspective.

The role that owner-managers' managerial capabilities play in agricultural firms' strategic change and performance is still unclear. A firm's market opportunities seizing capability (OSC) is a source of competitiveness and superior performance. The objective of this study is to establish how owner-manager's dynamic managerial capabilities (DMCs) including managerial human capital, managerial social capital and managerial cognition affect firm performance through the mediating effect of OSC, as well as the moderating effect of market dynamism in the relationship OSC and firm performance.

Report on the first detection of Asian citrus psyllid Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Liviidae) in the Republic of Benin, West Africa.

The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri, was detected for the first time in the Republic of Benin, West Africa. The ACP is a known vector of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), the putative causal agent of the devastating Huanglongbing (HLB; citrus greening disease). During visual surveys, ACP was only observed on residential citrus trees in southern Benin, but not in residential areas or commercial groves in the central and northern parts of the country.

Susceptibility Profiles of (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) to Deltamethrin Reveal a Contrast between the Northern and the Southern Benin.

is an indigenous species in Africa and has been reported in the destruction of several crops in Benin. Management of pest is mainly focused on the use of synthetic pyrethroids, which may contribute to resistance selection. This study aimed to screen the susceptibility pattern of field populations of to deltamethrin in Benin.

Genetic structure of populations following the use of insecticides on several consecutive years in southern Benin.

Background: Several studies have reported the strong resistance of complex species to pyrethroids. The voltage-dependent sodium channel () gene is the main target of pyrethroids and DDT. In Benin, the frequency of the resistant allele () of this gene varies along the north-south transect.

Assessing the Adequacy of the Simulation Model LATEBLIGHT Under Nicaraguan Conditions.

In this study, the adequacy of the late blight simulation model LATEBLIGHT (version LB2004) was evaluated under Nicaraguan conditions. During 2007 to 2008, five field experiments were conducted in three potato-production regions in northern Nicaragua. Two susceptible ('Cal White' and 'Granola') and one resistant ('Jacqueline Lee') potato cultivars were evaluated without use of fungicides and with three application intervals (4, 7, and 14 days) of the fungicide chlorothalonil.