Kyushu Plant Protection Research
Vol. 50
2004
Contents of original papers
Diseases
Control efficacy of seed disinfectant treatments against MBI-D-resistant isolates of rice blast fungus.
……………Kazuhiro So, Masato Kanayama and Junichiro Yamaguchi……1
Relation among thickness of grain, percentage of Fusarium damaged kernels and mycotoxin contamination level in wheat samples from naturally infested field in the western part of Japan.
……………Takashi Nakajima, Norio Sobaru, Tomoko Sakata and Megumi Yoshida……6
Screening of effective fungicides against leaf spot on tomato caused by Stemphylium lycopersici.
……………Misa Maeda, Mie Koga, Takeshi Yokoyama and Seiji Koga……10
Relation between the disease development, the disease severity of melon necrotic spot, and the virus concentration of melon fruits.
……………Kazutoshi Matsuo……14
Occurrence of bacterial vein rot of grape in Nagasaki Prefecture.
……………Akira Morita……19
Insect pests
Decrease in density of the apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata（Lamarck）（Gastropoda: Ampullariidae）by tillage and soil puddling.
……………Takashi Wada, Yoichi Yusa, Katsuya Ichinose, Hiroo Kanno, Masaya Matsumura,……23
Kazuhiro Arimura, Satoru Urano and Kimiyasu Takahashi
Seasonal occurrence of predacious mirid bugs and rice planthoppers in a rice paddy field after release of the mirid bug Cyrtorhinus lividipennis Reuter.
……………Toshinobu Nakamura, Masaya Matsumura, Satoru Urano and Makoto Tokuda……29
A mass rearing method using rice seedlings for the maize orange leafhopper Cicadulina bipunctata （Melichar） （Homoptera: Cicadellidae） and a simple method for evaluating varietal resistance of maize to maize wallaby ear disease.
……………Masaya Matsumura and Makoto Tokuda……35
The effect of egg-surface treatment with ethanol on post-hatching survival and development of the West Indian sweetpotato weevil, Euscepes postfasciatus（Fairmaire）（Coleoptera: Curculionidae）.
……………Suguru Ohno, Tomonori Sasaki, Kimiko Urasaki and Tsuguo Kohama……４０
Oviposition of unmated females of the West Indian sweetpotato weevil, Euscepes postfasciatus （Fairmaire）（Coleoptera: Curculionidae）.
……………Mitsutaka Sakakibara……４４
Biological studies of Amblyseius californicus（McGregor） and its control effect for Tetranychus kanzawai on greenhouse strawberries.
……………Yuji Takada and Tomotoshi Kashio……４９
Varietal difference in the susceptibility of strawberry to western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis （Pergande）.
……………Toshio Kitamura and Tomotoshi Kashio……５５
Biological control of the broad mite Polyphagotarsonemus latus（Banks）by Amblyseius cucumeris （Oudemans）on greenhouse sweet pepper.
……………Makoto Mizobe and Itsumi Tamura……６２
Physical control of the cotton caterpillar, Diaphania indica, and the corn earworm, Helicoverpa armigera, by insect-proof nets on greenhouse melon.
……………Yutaka Gyoutoku, Tomotoshi Kashio and Takeshi Yokoyama……６６
Efficacy of physical control of tomato yellow leaf curl desease and silverleaf whitefly.
……………Yasuhiro Ogawa and Keisuke Uchikawa……７２
Occurrence of Contarinia sp.（Diptera: Cecidomyiidae）causing leaf-fold galls on cultivated roses in Japan.
……………Makoto Tokuda and Junichi Yukawa……７７
Predatory ability of Amblyseius eharai Amitai et Swirski（Acari: Phytoseiidae）on thrips.
……………Kazuki Kakimoto, Takuji Iguchi, Hideaki Inoue and Kanetosi Kusigemati……８２
Survey of three main plant-parasitic nematodes on tea fields in Kyushu.
……………Kunihiko Sato, Hideaki Iwahori and Zen-ichi Sano……８８