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Life table studies of the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella (L.) on cauliflower, cabbage and mustard

Volume : 87
Issue: Apr-jun
Pages: 206 - 210
Published: June 24, 2023
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Abstract


Life table studies on cauliflower, cabbage and mustard showed that DBM had a gross reproductive rate of 89.16, 115,40 and 86.78 female eggs per female on the above three crops. The species had a capacity for natural increase of 0.16, 0.17 and 0.13 females per day on cauliflower, cabbage and mustard with a (daily finite rate of increase) of 1.18, 1.19 and 1.14 females per day, the population would multiply 3.18, 3.38 and 2.50 times every week.

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206 - 210
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Intrinsic rate of increase Finite rate of increase Gross reproductive rate Plutella xylostella
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