Bruchids and Legumes: Economics, Ecology and Coevolution
Bruchids and Legumes: Economics, Ecology and Coevolution
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豆类植物和豆科植物:经济学、生态学和共同进化
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1990
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通讯作者:
T. Yoshida
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作者:
K. Fujii;A. Gatehouse;C. Johnson;R. Mitchel;T. Yoshida
In the Meiji era we had two serious Bruchid pests, Callosobruchus chinensis and Bruch us pisorum in Japan. In 1926 B. rulimanus was found in Kyushu. Urgent countermeasures were taken to meet the new pest: biology of and control measures against the weevil were studied extensively especially by Kamito. In 1937 the basis of classification of Bruchids in Japan was established by Chujo. Recently the introduction of C. maculatus was noticed. During and after World War II Ishii started his pioneering study on biochemical resistance to Bruchid attack in legume seeds. Also, Utida was carrying on his continuing study of experimental populations of C. chinensis. The range of his study was enlarged from density effect to interspecific competition, host-parasite relationship and phase dimorphism in Callosobruchus spp. The new pheromones of "oviposition marker" and "erectin" were identified and synthesized by Yamamoto and his school in the bean weevils. Some authors took a growing interest in the life history strategy of Bruchids, coevolution between bean and weevil, and evolution or domestication of the bean weevils. Dealing with the increase of imported beans from foreign countries into Japan, the techniques of bean fumigation with methyl bromide and phosphine for quarantine fumigation was developed. In the laboratories of Universities and the private laboratories of agricultural Chemicals Companies many investigations were carried on using the bean weevil as an experimental insect to develop new chemicals without environmental disruption.