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Comparative studies on efficacy of ethyl formate and methyl bromide to disinfest citrus mealybug, Planoccous citri, on imported fruits
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Comparative studies on efficacy of ethyl formate and methyl bromide to disinfest citrus mealybug, Planoccous citri, on imported fruits

Min-Goo Park, Chung-Gyoo Park, Jeong-O Yang, YongLin Ren and Byung-Ho Lee
한국응용곤충학회 학술대회논문집, p.511
2018 Joint International Conference on Crop Protection
2018
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Abstract

To replace hazardous methyl bromide (MB) post-fumigation on imported fruits, due to insufficient ventilation process in industrial practice, alternative fumigation with liquid ethyl formate (EF) with N2 application, which is multi benefits to safe to workplace and environment, has been developed by APQA. Although EF was found to be shown proven efficacy to invasive external feeders such as mealybugs and scales on export and imported fruits and vegetables, there was still some conflicts to accept one of the phytosanitary disinfestation method somewhere because of on reliable and confirmative studies on between MB and EF in terms of efficacy to mealybugs on perishable commodities. In here, we evaluated comparative efficacy of EF and MB to target citrus mealybug, which was seems to be hard control pest, based on the current disinfestation guideline of them in Korea. The potential benefits of using liquid ethyl formate (EF) for future quarantine use could provide for safer workplace involved on and post-fumigation such as cold and packing storages, cost-effectiveness as well as meet the environmental friendly solution.

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