Arab and Near East Plant Protection Newsletter Number 55, April 2012 Editorial Board Shoki AL-DOBAI – Food and Agriculture Organization, Cairo, Egypt Wa’el ALMATNI – Ministry of Agriculture, Damascus, Syria Bassam BAYAA – Faculty of Agriculture, University of Aleppo, Syria Ahmed DAWABAH – Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Ahmed EL-AHMED – Faculty of Agriculture, University of Aleppo, Syria Ahmed EL-HENEIDY – Plant Protection Research Institute, ARC, Giza, Egypt Mustafa HAIDAR – Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, AUB, Lebanon Ibrahim JBOORY – Faculty of Agriculture, Baghdad University, Iraq Ahmed KATBEH – Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jordan, Amman Khaled MAKKOUK – National Council for Scientific Research, Beirut, Lebanon Bouzid NASRAOUI – Ministry of Agriculture and environment, Tunis, Tunisia Adwan SHEHAB – GCSAR, Damascus, Syria Editorial Assistant Nouran ATTAR – ICARDA, P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria The Arab and Near East Plant Protection Newsletter (ANEPPNEL) is jointly published Triple a year by the Arab Society for Plant Protection and the Near East Regional Office of the FAO. All correspondence should be sent either to Adwan Shehab, Editor (
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