Effect of oil palm planting materials, rainfall, number of male inflorescence and spikelet on the population abundance of oil palm pollinator, Elaeidobius Kamerunicus faust (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Effect of oil palm planting materials, rainfall, number of male inflorescence and spikelet on the population abundance of oil palm pollinator, Elaeidobius Kamerunicus faust (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Elaeidobius kamerunicus is the main insect pollinator of oil palm and was first introduced to Malaysia in the year of 1980s. This introduction had increased the oil palm yield production. However, the yield production has obviously declined lately. There are several factors that contributing to the...

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Main Authors: Nurul Fatihah Abd Latip, Mohd Rizuan Zainal Abidin, Idris Abd Ghani, Muhamad Fahmi M. H., Luqman H. A., H Al – Talafha, Noor Nasuha A.A.
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Published: Pusat Sistematik Serangga, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
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spelling ukm-134142019-09-22T02:19:23Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13414/ Effect of oil palm planting materials, rainfall, number of male inflorescence and spikelet on the population abundance of oil palm pollinator, Elaeidobius Kamerunicus faust (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Nurul Fatihah Abd Latip, Mohd Rizuan Zainal Abidin, Idris Abd Ghani, Muhamad Fahmi M. H., Luqman H. A., H Al – Talafha, Noor Nasuha A.A., Elaeidobius kamerunicus is the main insect pollinator of oil palm and was first introduced to Malaysia in the year of 1980s. This introduction had increased the oil palm yield production. However, the yield production has obviously declined lately. There are several factors that contributing to the declined and most said is because of the E. kamerunicus population itself. As such, a study to determine the population abundance of E. kamerunicus on different oil palm planting materials was done at Ladang FELDA in Jengka, Pahang, Malaysia from May 2016 to April 2017. A total of nine spikelets, three each from top, middle and bottom section of male inflorescence which were systematically selected prior to data collection, were cut off early in the morning and brought back to Centre for Insect Systematics, UKM for E. kamerunicus counts. The mean population abundance of E. kamerunicus per ha for both oil palm clones and D×P were 20463 ± 3528 and 11079 ± 2135 weevils per ha, respectively. Based on previous studies in Malaysia and elsewhere, the E. kamerunicus populations in this plantation are adequate to pollinate the female inflorescence. Oil palm clones has higher number of spikelet due to uniformity of the plantlets and the number of male inflorescence showed positively correlated with the population abundance of E. kamerunicus per ha, suggesting that these factors were favorable for E. kamerunicus activities. However, further study is needed to determine the relationship between E. kamerunicus population on different oil palm planting materials and the fruit set. Pusat Sistematik Serangga, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13414/1/23737-78501-1-PB.pdf Nurul Fatihah Abd Latip, and Mohd Rizuan Zainal Abidin, and Idris Abd Ghani, and Muhamad Fahmi M. H., and Luqman H. A., and H Al – Talafha, and Noor Nasuha A.A., (2018) Effect of oil palm planting materials, rainfall, number of male inflorescence and spikelet on the population abundance of oil palm pollinator, Elaeidobius Kamerunicus faust (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Serangga, 23 (1). pp. 35-45. ISSN 1394-5130 http://ejournals.ukm.my/serangga/issue/view/1099/showToc
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description Elaeidobius kamerunicus is the main insect pollinator of oil palm and was first introduced to Malaysia in the year of 1980s. This introduction had increased the oil palm yield production. However, the yield production has obviously declined lately. There are several factors that contributing to the declined and most said is because of the E. kamerunicus population itself. As such, a study to determine the population abundance of E. kamerunicus on different oil palm planting materials was done at Ladang FELDA in Jengka, Pahang, Malaysia from May 2016 to April 2017. A total of nine spikelets, three each from top, middle and bottom section of male inflorescence which were systematically selected prior to data collection, were cut off early in the morning and brought back to Centre for Insect Systematics, UKM for E. kamerunicus counts. The mean population abundance of E. kamerunicus per ha for both oil palm clones and D×P were 20463 ± 3528 and 11079 ± 2135 weevils per ha, respectively. Based on previous studies in Malaysia and elsewhere, the E. kamerunicus populations in this plantation are adequate to pollinate the female inflorescence. Oil palm clones has higher number of spikelet due to uniformity of the plantlets and the number of male inflorescence showed positively correlated with the population abundance of E. kamerunicus per ha, suggesting that these factors were favorable for E. kamerunicus activities. However, further study is needed to determine the relationship between E. kamerunicus population on different oil palm planting materials and the fruit set.
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author Nurul Fatihah Abd Latip,
Mohd Rizuan Zainal Abidin,
Idris Abd Ghani,
Muhamad Fahmi M. H.,
Luqman H. A.,
H Al – Talafha,
Noor Nasuha A.A.,
spellingShingle Nurul Fatihah Abd Latip,
Mohd Rizuan Zainal Abidin,
Idris Abd Ghani,
Muhamad Fahmi M. H.,
Luqman H. A.,
H Al – Talafha,
Noor Nasuha A.A.,
Effect of oil palm planting materials, rainfall, number of male inflorescence and spikelet on the population abundance of oil palm pollinator, Elaeidobius Kamerunicus faust (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
author_facet Nurul Fatihah Abd Latip,
Mohd Rizuan Zainal Abidin,
Idris Abd Ghani,
Muhamad Fahmi M. H.,
Luqman H. A.,
H Al – Talafha,
Noor Nasuha A.A.,
author_sort Nurul Fatihah Abd Latip,
title Effect of oil palm planting materials, rainfall, number of male inflorescence and spikelet on the population abundance of oil palm pollinator, Elaeidobius Kamerunicus faust (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
title_short Effect of oil palm planting materials, rainfall, number of male inflorescence and spikelet on the population abundance of oil palm pollinator, Elaeidobius Kamerunicus faust (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
title_full Effect of oil palm planting materials, rainfall, number of male inflorescence and spikelet on the population abundance of oil palm pollinator, Elaeidobius Kamerunicus faust (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
title_fullStr Effect of oil palm planting materials, rainfall, number of male inflorescence and spikelet on the population abundance of oil palm pollinator, Elaeidobius Kamerunicus faust (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
title_full_unstemmed Effect of oil palm planting materials, rainfall, number of male inflorescence and spikelet on the population abundance of oil palm pollinator, Elaeidobius Kamerunicus faust (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
title_sort effect of oil palm planting materials, rainfall, number of male inflorescence and spikelet on the population abundance of oil palm pollinator, elaeidobius kamerunicus faust (coleoptera: curculionidae)
publisher Pusat Sistematik Serangga, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2018
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13414/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13414/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13414/1/23737-78501-1-PB.pdf
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