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Arab Journal of Plant Protection Under the Patronage of H.E. the President of the Council of Ministers, Lebanon Arab Journal of Plant Protection Volume 27, Special Issue (Supplement), October 2009 Abstracts Book 10th Arab Congress of Plant Protection Organized by Arab Society for Plant Protection in Collaboration with National Council for Scientific Research Crowne Plaza Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon 26-30 October, 2009 Edited by Safaa Kumari, Bassam Bayaa, Khaled Makkouk, Ahmed El-Ahmed, Ahmed El-Heneidy, Majd Jamal, Ibrahim Jboory, Walid Abou-Gharbieh, Barakat Abu Irmaileh, Elia Choueiri, Linda Kfoury, Mustafa Haidar, Ahmed Dawabah, Adwan Shehab, Youssef Abu-Jawdeh Organizing Committee of the 10th Arab Congress of Plant Protection Mouin Hamze Chairman National Council for Scientific Research, Beirut, Lebanon Khaled Makkouk Secretary National Council for Scientific Research, Beirut, Lebanon Youssef Abu-Jawdeh Member Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Leila Geagea Member Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Holy Spirit University- Kaslik, Lebanon Mustafa Haidar Member Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Walid Saad Member Pollex sal, Beirut, Lebanon Samir El-Shami Member Ministry of Agriculture, Beirut, Lebanon Elia Choueiri Member Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute, Tal Amara, Zahle, Lebanon Linda Kfoury Member Faculty of Agriculture, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon Khalil Melki Member Unifert, Beirut, Lebanon Imad Nahal Member Ministry of Agriculture, Beirut, Lebanon th Scientific Committee of the 10 Arab Congress of Plant Protection Safaa Kumari, ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria Bassam Bayaa, Faculty of Agriculture, Aleppo University, Syria Khaled Makkouk, National Council for Scientific Research, Beirut, Lebanon Ahmed El-Ahmed, Faculty of Agriculture, Aleppo University, Syria Ahmed El-Heneidy, Agricultural Research Center, Cairo, Egypt Majd Jamal, ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria Ibrahim Jboory, Faculty of Agriculture, Bagdad University, Iraq Walid Abou-Gharbieh, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jordan, Jordan Barakat Abu Irmaileh, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jordan, Jordan Elia Choueiri, Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute, Tal Amara, Zahle, Lebanon Linda Kfoury, Faculty of Agriculture, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon Mustafa Haidar, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Ahmed Dawabah, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Adwan Shehab, GCSAR, Douma, Damascus, Syria Youssef Abu-Jawdeh, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Wafa Khoury, FAO, Rome, Italy Khalil Melki, Unifert, Beirut, Lebanon Leila Geagea, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon Executive Committee of the Arab Society for Plant Protection Wafa Khoury President Lebanon Majd Jamal Vice President Syria Mustafa Haidar Secretary-Treasurer Lebanon Safaa Kumari Member and Chairman of the Publication Syria Committee Ibrahim Jboory Member and Chairman of Translation Iraq Committee Mohamed S. El-Zemaity Member and Chairman of Membership Egypt Committee Ahmed Katbeh Member and Chairman of Honour and Jordan Awards Committee Mouin Hamze Member and Chairman of the Organizing Lebanon Committee of the 10th ACPP Khaled Makkouk Member and Editor-in-chief, AJPP Lebanon Congress Supporting Institutions • National Council for Scientific Reserch (CNRS), Lebanon • Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia • Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations • International Development Research Center (IDRC), Egypt • Unifert, Lebanon • ARD Unifert, Lebanon • Debbane Freres SAL, Lebanon • Debbane Freres Trading SAL offshore, Lebanon • Agricultural Materials Company (Mikdadi), Jordan • Syngenta Agro, Switzerland • Bayer Cropscience, Germany • Basf Agro, Germany • Antagro, Lebanon • FMC Agricultural Products International, UAE • Russel IPM, UK • Dupont International Operations, Switzerland • Dow Agrosciences, Middle East • Fine Agrochemicals, UK • Detia Degesch, Germany • Societe Libanaise d’Agriculture et de Chimie, Lebanon • Societe Akl Freres, Lebanon • Adonis, Lebanon • ISAGRO, Greece • Cheminova, Denmark • AGRIA, Bulgaria Arab Journal of Plant Protection Volume 27, Special Issue (Supplement), October 2009 Table of Contents Contents Abstracts No. Page No. Authors Index E-1 Keynote address KN 1 E-11 Symposia S 1- S 19 E-11 Economic Entomology E 1- E 108 E-17 Mites M 1- M 12 E-45 Fungal Diseases F 1 - F 96 E-48 Bacterial Diseases B 1 - B 12 E-74 Viral Diseases V 1- V 64 E-77 Nematodes N 1 - N 35 E-96 Weeds W 1 - W 32 E-105 Chemicals Pesticides P 1 - P 15 E-113 Plant Extracts EX 1 - EX 25 E-118 Natural Enemies NA 1 - NE 6 E-124 Host Resistance R 1- R 30 E-126 Integrated Pest Management IPM 1 - IPM 18 E-135 Biological Control BC 1 - BC 87 E-140 Control of Insect Pests C 1 - C 23 E-163 Post Harvest Pests PHP 1 - PHP 10 E-169 Beneficial Insects BI 1 - BI 13 E-171 Rodents, Birds & Snails RO 1 - RO 7 E-174 General Topics GT 1 - GT 8 E-176 Authors Index Name Abstract No. Name Abstract No. Abang, Mathew M. F 23, F 86 Abogharsa, Issa A. R 21, B 8 Abas, Kazal R 5 Abo-Hleka, Al-Taher V 23 Abass, F. E 44 Abo-Mhara, Amal V 49, V 8 Abbad, Fouad IPM 5 Abood, M.R. BC 85 Abbas, M.K. E 69 Abooud, Intisar J. F 53 Abbasipour, Habib EX 22, BC 76 Abou Al Fadil, Taissir F 96 Abbo, Fadhel Yousef V 12 Abou Ammar, Ghada BC 73 Abbod, Hadi Mahdi B 5, F 12 Abou Elyousr, K.A.M. F 31 Abbood, Rafeek BC 65, BC 26 Abou Faker, Taher F 96 Abd Al-Razaq, Ayad A.A.H. BC 68 Abou Haidar, Charbel BC 87 Abd alsada, Ali J. BC 85 Abou Kubaa, Raied V 57, V 58, V 64 Abd El Daiem, Hamed A. IPM 10, IPM 8 Aboud, Hadi M. BC 85, F 17 Abd El Hamied, Zidan H. P 10, RO 7 Abouelkassem, Sherif C 9, P 5 Abd El-Wahab, Afaf EX 8 Abougarsa, Issa A. EX 9 Abd-Alaleem, Abdalla M. V 45 Abu-Jawdeh, Yousef BC 23, BC 87, V 22, V 9, Abdalla, Abdalla M. R 12, V 4 E 84 Abdalla, Omer A. V 10 Aboul-Ata, A.E. V 6 Abdalla, Tag Elsir E. BC 64, C 20, E 33, E 83 Aboussaid, Houda BC 30, BC 70, BC 71 Abdallah, A.A. E 77 Abou-Tara, Randa BC 58, E 19, NE 5 Abdel Rahman, Tamader G. F 55 Abozakar, Farhat Ali F 82 Abdel–Aziz,Mounir A. F 62 Abu- Alloush, Asem BC 55 Abd–Elbaky, A.A. F 56 Abu Irmaileh, Barakat W 6 Abdel-Baky, N.F. BC 11 Abu Kashwa, Sumia EX 21 Abdelgader, H. BC 20 Abugela, Omran A. E 81 Abdel-Galil, Farouk A. E 61 Abu-Gharbieh, Walid N 16, N 30, N 8 Abdel-Gawad, M.A. EX 5 Abu-Ghorra, Mahmoud B 12 Abd-Elhady, Hany Kamal C 7 Abu-Hlaka, Al-Taher R 20 Abdel-Halim, A. E 11 Abuhligha, Taher Ahmed BI 7, F 6 Abdelli, B. E 24 Abukashwa, Sumia E 34 Abdel-Mallek, Ahmed Y. C 14, C 6 Abu-Shirbi, Abeer V 30 Abdel-Megeed, M.I. E 20 Achbani, El Hassan B 6 Abdelmonem, A.M. F 20 Acheuk, Fatma E 88 Abdel-Moniem, Abdellah S.H. E 61 Achoura, A. EX 20 Abdel-Rahman, Mohamed A. C 14, C 6 Adam, Mohamed A. M. N 13, IPM 2 Abdel-Rhman, Kh. A. IPM 4 Addante, Rocco V 64 Abdel-Samad, Salwa BC 5, R 18 Adel, Leith BC 63 Abd-El-Samed, Abdallah E 35 Adem, Mohammed A.M. B 1, B 9 Abderabba, Manef V 59, EX 13 Adhab, Mustafa Ali V 1 Abdeslam, Arezki Ait B 2 Adib, Saad F 49 Abd-Rabou, Shaaban BC 3, BC 43 Adkins, Steve W 17 Abdu-Alhaleem, Khalil BC 24 Afif, M. E 21 Abdul Azize, Maan C 12 Afifi, A.I. BC 13 Abdul Hamid, Aidi BC 40 Afy, Ahmad A. BC 63 Abdul Kader, Samah RO 3 Afzal, Muhammad BC 22 Abdul Rahim, Hassanien BC 38 Aguib, Sihem BI 4 Abdul Razak, Amal. S. BC 63 Ahmad, Abdelmonim A. B 12 Abdul Wahab, Abdul Salam BC 63 Ahmad, Mohammad BC 32, BC 75, M 11, M 6, Abdul-Alkareem, C. E 14 BC 28, BC 29 Abdulhai, Mohammed BC 69 Ahmad, Manasic Mohamadain V 4 Abdulkarim, H.M. C 4 Ahmad, S. F 11 Abdullah, L.M. C 16 Ahmadi,Kamal E 99 Abdullah, Samir K. F 67 Ahmed, Ayoub I. N 28, N 29 Abdullah, Suaad Irdeny E 64, BC 6, E 53, E 54 Ahmed, A. E 32 Abdulqader, Aree Adel PHP 7 Ahmed, Ahmed H. IPM 12 Abdul-Razak, Amal Salman BC 38 Ahmed, Ali Nasier F 54 Abdunabi, Aiad M. E 80 Ahmed, M.A. E 62, R 18, IPM 10, R 1 Abed, Hashem GT 3 Ahmed, Manasic Mohamadain R 12 Abed, Tamam BI 12 Ahmed, Mohamed BC 26 Abo Alfadil, Taisser R 4 Ahmed, Seid F 39, F 35, F 86 Abo Kaf, Nabil NE 6, BC 35, BC 80, E 38 Ahmed, S.A. F 71 Abo Trabi, Bassam R 4 Ahmed, Zana Abubakr GT 8 Abo-Elghar, Gamal Elsayed C 7 Ahmmed, R. F 43 2009 / 27 E-1 Name Abstract No. Name Abstract No. AI-Hayalee, M.A.M. E 26 Ali, Juhina A.M. BC 52 Aissat, Kamel F 34 Ali, Lina E 92 Akhtar, N. F 11 Ali, Nawal BC 28, BC 29 Akparov, Zeynal V 53 Ali, Othman Omer GT 8 Al- abbar, Faiha'a BC 57 Ali, Sarfaraz F. GT 5 Al Abdullah, Jihan M 8 Ali, Shaukat BC 22 Al Ahmad, M. W 30 Ali, Soaad S. V 38 Al BannA, Luma N 8, N 24 Ali, Suliman Abdalla Ibrahim E 78 Al Barhawi, R. K EX 2 Aliakbari, Farhang BC 47, EX 24, EX 15 Al Dujaly, T.M. F 3 Alim, Naiema Eltayeb BC 67 Al Hashash, Abd Alatif E 89 Al-Iraqi, Riyad C 12, E 46 Al- Nujiban, Asma Abd-Allah C 17 Al-Isaac, Elias V 13 Al-Rehiayani, Suloiman.
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