ENTOMOLOGY 135 |
INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL CONTROL |
| Country | Plant
| Chinese Center: | broomcorn millet, Italian millet, Japanese barnyard millet, Koaliang, buckwheat, hull-less barley, soybean, Adzuki bean, velvet bean, Chinese yam, radish, Chinese cabbage, onion, cucumber, pear, Chinese apple, peach, apricot, cherry, walnut, litchi, sugar cane, opium poppy, ginseng camphor and hemp.
| Indian Center: | rice, chickpea, pigeon pea, urd bean, mung bean, rice bean, cowpea, eggplant, cucumber, radish, taro, yam, mango, orange, tangerine, citron, tamarind, sugar cane, coconut palm, sesame, safflower, tree cotton, oriental cotton, jute, crotalaria, kenaf, hemp, black pepper, gum arabic, sandalwood, indigo, cinnamon tree, croton and bamboo.
| Indo-Malayan Center: | Job's tears, velvet bean, pummelo, banana, breadfruit, mangosteen, candlenut, coconut palm, sugarcane, clove, nutmeg, black pepper and manila hemp.
| Central Asiatic Center: | common wheat, club wheat, shot wheat, peas, lentil, horse bean, chickpea, mung bean, mustard, flax, seasame, hemp, cotton, onion, garlic, spinach, carrot, pistacio, pear, almond, grape and apple.
| Near Eastern Center: | einkorn wheat, durum wheat, poulard wheat, common wheat, oriental wheat, Persian wheat, two-row barley, rye, Mediterranean oats, common oats, lentil, lupine, alfalfa, Persian clover, fenugreek, vetch, hairy vetch, fig, pomegranate, apple, pear, quince, cherry and hawthorn.
| Mediterranean Center: | durum wheat, emmer, Polish wheat, spelt, Mediterranean oats, sand oats, canarygrass, grass pea, pea, lupine, Egyptian clover, white clover, crimson clover, serradella, flax, rape, black mustard, olive, garden beet, cabbage, turnip, lettuce, asparagus, celery, chicory, parsnip, rhubarb, caraway, anise, thyme, peppermint, sage and hop.
| Abyssinian Center: | Abyssinian hard wheat, poulard wheat, emmer, Polish wheat, barley, grain sorghum, pearl millet, African millet, cowpea, flax, sesame, castor bean, garden cress, coffee, okra, myrrh and indigo.
| South Mexican and Central American Center: | maize (corn), common bean, lima bean, tepary bean, jack bean, grain amaranth, malabar gourd, winter pumpkin, chayote, upland cotton, bourbon cotton, henequen (sisal), sweetpotato, arrowroot, pepper, papaya, guava, cashew, wild black cherry, chochenial, cherry tomato and cacao.
| South American Center: | potato, starchy maize, lima bean, common bean, edible canna, pepino, tomato, ground cherry, pumpkin, pepper, Egyptian cotton, passion flower, guava, heilborn, quinine tree, tobacco, strawberry, manioc, peanut, rubber tree, pineapple, Brazil nut, cashew and purple granadilla.
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(Adapted from Vavilov (1951) by R. W. Schery, Plants for Man, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1972).
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