• Pepper

  mild bell pepper and hot peppers in jalapeno and habanero. The pepper plant is native to tropical America. Pepper plants are perennials, but are typically [...] The pepper plant (genus Capsicum ) belongs to the nightshade family Solanaceae. This plant genus includes all varieties of peppers, including the mild [...] typically grown as summer annuals. Pepper plants are propagated by seeding direct into the soil or by transplanting seedlings in a greenhouse environment. Plant

• Pepper weevil

  prefer crops from the Solanaceae family, especially the Capsicum genus (peppers); they feed on this fruit, lay eggs, and complete their lifecycle. They [...] the crop has been very severely damaged. Lifecycle and appearance of the pepper weevil Newly hatched adults have a light brown colour, with an oval body

• Sweet pepper

  About The sweet pepper , also referred to as bell pepper or just pepper, is part of a specific group of cultivars that belongs to the species Capsicum [...] sweet pepper is a very rich source of vitamin C and antioxidants. The level of carotene is even nine times higher in red peppers. Red coloured peppers also [...] Capsicum annuum . These different cultivars of the sweet pepper plant bear fruit in different colours ranging from vanilla/white and yellow to orange, green and

• Trianum-P improves open field pepper production in Portugal

  T-22 strain of Trichoderma harzianum , has achieved excellent results in pepper crops for processing in Portugal, a country where this biological fungicide [...] with the company Sociedade Agrícola Militão, in the town of Ribatejo, in a pepper crop for the processing industry. Pedro Militão is one of the two owners [...] company Sociedade Agrícola Militão which cultivates about 40 hectares of peppers in the Marinhais area. The entire crop is harvested mechanically. With

• La Hacienda Fresh increases crop profitability thanks to biological control

  making it a benchmark in know-how in the production of peppers. The harvest cycle for peppers varies according to region and production conditions. At [...] for export, since it is produced in safer conditions." Importance of bell pepper cultivation in Mexico The profitability of a crop is based on the quantity [...] environment for workers contribute significantly to a profitable crop. Peppers are one of the most important crops in the Mexican agricultural market.

• Powdery mildew

  leaf. In severe epidemics in cereals, the ears may also be infected. In pepper, the fluffy colonies occur mostly on the underside of the leaf, because [...] fluffy colonies also appear on the upper side of the leaves. Many sweet pepper cultivars react to powdery mildew infection by dropping leaves that are [...] conidiophores are the fluffy fungal growth so typical of powdery mildew. Only in pepper, infection (by Leveillula taurica ) is through the stomata and the fungus

• Southern European marshland pyralid

  General The southern European marshland pyralid or European pepper moth (Duponchelia fovealis) is a polyphagous species feeding on a wide range of hosts [...] such as roses and gerbera, aquatic plants, vegetable crops such as celery, pepper and lettuce, and weeds. The secretive habit of the caterpillars of this [...] appearance of Southern European marshland pyralid Adults of the European pepper moth ( Duponchelia fovealis ) are light to dark brown with a clearly visible

• Impatiens thrips

  range of hosts. In addition to many ornamental plants it also attacks sweet pepper , cucumber and eggplants. It lives exclusively on the leaves and is often [...] shrivel. Echinothrips americanus is often found low in the crop. In sweet pepper the damage can be seen as discolouration of older leaves at the bottom of

• Glasshouse potato aphid

  a native European species of aphids , seriously affecting crops of sweet pepper in particular. These aphids further affect ornamental crops, such as begonia [...] potato aphid (Aulacorthum solani) pierces the leaves or the fruit of sweet pepper it secretes a toxic substance, which leads to deformations in the growing

• Tomato looper

  cauliflower, corn, crucifer, soybean , potato , strawberry , banana, sweet pepper and tomato but also chrysanthemum and geranium. An annual migrant from southern [...] primarily a foliage feeder but it also attacks fruits such as tomato and sweet pepper . Older instars eat through the leaves, which make them appear skeletonized