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EFFECT OF EARHEAD BUG FEEDING ON NUTRITIONAL CONTENTS OF SORGHUM SEEDS

Volume : 74
Issue: Mar-mar
Pages: 139 - 141
Published: September 22, 2023
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Abstract


Feeding by sorghum, earhead bug. Calocoris angustatus Lethierry resulted in changes in the nutrional content of sorghum seeds. The depletion in starch (6.67 to 28.39%) and protien (27.3 to 52.6%) contents in infested grain was noted Free amino acid contents increased appreciably in the infested grain seeds to the tune of 88 89 to 396.00 per cent over healthy seeds.

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139 - 141
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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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