ARAB AND NEAR EAST PLANT PROTECTION NEWSLETTER Number 67, March 2016 Editor-in-Chief Ibrahim Al-JBOORY – Faculty of Agriculture, Baghdad University, Iraq. Editorial Board Bassam BAYAA – Faculty of Agriculture, University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria. Khaled MAKKOUK – National Council for Scientific Research, Beirut, Lebanon. Shoki AL-DOBAI – Food and Agriculture Organization, Cairo, Egypt. Ahmed DAWABAH – College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ahmed EL-HENEIDY – Plant Protection Research Institute, ARC, Giza, Egypt. Safaa KUMARI – International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Tunis, Tunisia. Ahmed EL-AHMED – Faculty of Agriculture, University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria. Mustafa HAIDAR – Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, AUB, Lebanon. Ahmed KATBEH – Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. Bouzid NASRAOUI – INAT, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia. Wa’el ALMATNI – Ministry of Agriculture, Damascus, Syria. Editorial Assistant Tara ALFADHLI – P.O. Box 17399, Amman11195, Jordan. The Arab Society for Plant Protection and the Near East Regional Office of the FAO jointly publishes the Arab and Near East Plant Protection Newsletter (ANEPPNEL), three times per year. All correspondence should be sent by email to the Editor (
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