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A genetic analysis of banana resistance to weevils (Cosmopolites sordidus germar), Mwange, G.*, Makerere University, 2021.
 
Banana weevil - Cosmopolites Sordidus, Van Asten, P., Muchunguzi, P. and Veaux, H., Technical Sheet, 2009.
 
Banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) tests for suspected resistance to carbofuran and dieldrin in Masaka District, Uganda, Gold, C., Bagabe, M. I. and Ssendege, R., in: African Entomology, volume 7, number 2, pages 189-196, ISSN 1021-3589, 1999.
 
Banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar), ovipositional preferences, timing of attack and larval survivorship in a mixed cultivar trial in Uganda, Abera, A., Kyamanywa, S.* and Karamura, E. B.*, in: Acta Horticulturae, volume 540, pages 487-495, ISSN 0567-7572, 2000.
 
Banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus Germar (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) infestation of cooking and beer bananas in adjacent stands in Uganda, Gold, C. and Bagabe, M. I., in: African Entomology, volume 5, pages 103-108, 1997.
 
Beauveria bassiana as an artificial endophyte in tissue-cultured banana (Musa spp.) plants: a novel way to combat the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus, Dubois, T., Akello, J., Coyne, D. and Kyamanywa, S.*, in: 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology and 9th International Conference on Bacillus thuringiensis, 3-7 August, 2008, Conventry, UK, 2008.
 
Beauveria bassiana as an artificial endophyte in tissue-cultured banana plants: a novel way to combat the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus, Akello, J., Dubois, T., Coyne, D. and Hillnhutter, C., in: Book of abstracts: ISHS/ProMusa Symposium on Recent Advances in Banana Crop Protection for Sustainable Production and Improved Livelihoods, 10-14 September 2007, White River, South Africa, pages np., ISHS, 2007.
 
Beauveria bassiana as an endophyte in tissue-cultured banana plants: a novel way to combat the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus, Akello, J., Dubois, T., Coyne, D. and Hillnhutter, C., in: Acta Horticulturae, volume 828, pages 129-138, ISSN 0567-7572, 2009.
 
Biology and integrated pest management for the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, in: Memorias de la II Seminario Internacional sobre Produccion, Comercializacion e Industrializacion de Platano, 28 August-2 September 2005, Manizales, Colombia edited by J. Castano and M. J. Giraldo, pages 226-237, 2005.
 
Biology and integrated pest management for the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Gold, C., Dubois, T., Tinzaara, W. and Kiggundu, A.*, in: Memorias de la II Seminario Internacional sobre Produccion, Comercializacion e Industrializacion de Platano., pages 226-237, 2006.
 
Biology and integrated pest management for the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Gold, C., Pena, J. and Karamura, E. B.*, in: Integrated Pest Management Reviews, volume 6, pages 79-155, ISSN 1353-5226, 2001. [DOI]
 
Biology and integrated pest management of banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar), Gold, C., in: RTB; Banana; Plantain.; Advancing banana and plantain R & D in Asia and the pacific - Vol. 10: proceedings of the 10th INIBAP-ASPNET Regional Advisory Committee Meeting, pages 28-33, International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP), Bangkok, Thailand, 2001.
 
Continuous mapping identifies Loci associated with weevil resistance [Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar)] in a triploid banana population, Uwimana, B., Mwanje, G., Batte, M., Akech, V., Shah, T., Vuylsteke, M. and Swennen, R., in: Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 12, number -: 753241, pages 1-14, ISSN 1664-462X, 2021. [DOI]
 
Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) susceptibility to indigenous Cameroonian Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill. and Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.) isolates, Membang, G., Ambang, Z., Mahot, H. C., Fotso Kuate, A., Fiaboe, K. and Hanna, R., in: Journal of Applied Entomology, volume 144, number 6, pages 468-480, ISSN 0931-2048, 2020. [DOI]
 
Effect of endophytic Beauveria bassiana on populations of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus, and their damage in tissue-cultured banana plants, Akello, J., Dubois, T., Coyne, D. and Kyamanywa, S.*, in: Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, volume 129, pages 157-165, ISSN 0013-8703, 2008.
 
Effects of covering highland banana stumps with soil on banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) oviposition, Masanza, M., Gold, C., Van Huis, A. and Ragama, P., in: International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, volume 25, number 1, pages 19-24, ISSN 1742-7584, 2005.
 
Effects of crop sanitation on banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), populations and crop damage in Uganda, Masanza, M., Gold, C., Van Huis, A. and Ragama, P., in: African Entomology, volume 14, number 2, pages 267-275, ISSN 1021-3589, 2006.
 
Effects of temperature on embryonic development of banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus, Traore, L.*, Gold, C., Pilon, J. G. and Boivin, G., in: African Crop Science Journal, volume 1, number 2, pages 111-116, ISSN 1021-9730, 1993.
 
Endophytic Beauveria bassiana in banana (Musa spp.) reduces banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus) fitness and damage, Akello, J., Dubois, T., Coyne, D. and Kyamanywa, S.*, in: Crop Protection, volume 27, number 11, pages 1437-1441, ISSN 0261-2194, 2008.
 
Evaluation of pseudostem trapping as a control measure against banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Uganda, Gold, C., Okeh, S. and Nokoe, S., in: Bulletin of Entomological Research, volume 92, number 1, pages 35-44, ISSN 0007-4853, 2002.
 
Evaluation of the entomopathogenic potential of Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium anisopliae and Isaria fumosorosea for management of Cosmopolites sordidus Germar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Kisaakye, J., Fourie, H.*, Coyne, D., Cortada-Gonzalez, L., Masinde, S., Subramanian, S. and Haukeland, S., in: Agriculture, volume 11, number 12: 1290, pages 1-16, ISSN 2077-0472, 2021. [DOI]
 
Field distribution of banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar)) adults in cooking banana stands in Uganda, Gold, C., Night, G., Ragama, P., Kagezi, G.*, Tinzaara, W. and Abera, A., in: Insect Science and Its Application, volume 24, pages 242-248, 2004.
 
Field evaluation of pheromone-enhanced traps for management of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus, in Uganda, Kagezi, G.*, Tinzaara, W., Gold, C., Nankinga, C., Tushemereirwe, W. K.* and Ragama, P., in: Proceedings, Kampala, Uganda, 2002.
 
Field evaluation of pheromone-enhanced traps for management of the banana weevil, cosmopolites sordidus, in Uganda, Kagezi, G.*, Tinzaara, W., Gold, C., Nankinga, C., Tushemereirwe, W. K.* and Ragama, P., in: Paper presented at: Proceedings of the Integrated Pest Management Workshop, 8-12 September 2002, Kampala, Uganda, 2003.
 
Field surveys for natural enemies of banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) in Indonesia with emphasis on searches for egg and larval parasitoids, Abera, A., Gold, C., Hasyim, A. and Van Driesche, R., Nairobi Kenya, 2002.
 
Influence of plant and residue age on attraction, acceptance and larval survival of the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Masanza, M., Gold, C., Van Huis, A. and Ragama, P., in: International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, volume 29, number 4, pages 171-179, ISSN 1742-7584, 2009.
 
Levels of host plant resistance to banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Ugandan Musa germplasm, Kiggundu, A.*, Gold, C., Labuschagne, M.*, Vuylsteke, D. and Louw, S.*, in: Euphytica, volume 133, number 3, pages 267-277, ISSN 0014-2336, 2003.
 
Microbial control of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus, with Beauveria bassiana, Gold, C., Nankinga, C., Tinzaara, W., Dubois, T., Akello, J. and Tushemereirwe, W. K.*, in: 38th Annual Meeting of Society for Invertebrate Pathology, 7-11 August 2005, Anchorage, USA; p. 102, 2005.
 
Musa pest fact sheet on the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus, Gold, C. and Messiaen, S., 2000.
 
Potential of classical biological control for banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus Germar, with natural enemies from Asia (with emphasis on Indonesia), Hasyim, A. and Gold, C., in: Mobilizing IPM for sustainable banana production in Africa: proceedings of a workshop on banana IPM, Nelspruit, South Africa, 23-28 November 1998, pages 59-71, INIBAP, 1999.
 
Prospects and proposals for biological control of Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Africa, Neuenschwander, P., in: Nematodes and the borer weevil in Bananas- present status of research outlook: proceedings of a workshop held in Bujumbura, Burundi, 7-11 December 1987, pages 54-57, International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP), Montpellier cedex, France, 1988.
 
Prospects for using Beauveria bassiana in the IPM of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) in Uganda, Nankinga, C., Gold, C., Moore, D., Tushemereirwe, W. K.* and Godonou, I., in: Paper presented at: Proceedings of the Integrated Pest Management Workshop, 8-12 September 2002, Kampala, Uganda, 2003.
 
Prospects of using Beauveria bassiana in the IPM of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) in Uganda, Nankinga, C., Gold, C., Moore, D., Tushemereirwe, W. K.* and Godonou, I., in: Paper presented, Kampala, Uganda, 2002.
 
Recent advances in host plant resistance to banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus Germar, Kiggundu, A.*, Vuylsteke, D. and Gold, C., in: Mobilizing IPM for sustainable banana production in Africa: proceedings of a workshop on banana IPM, Nelspruit, South Africa, 23-28 November 1998, pages 87-96, INIBAP, 1999.
 
Recent advances in host plant resistance to banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus Germar, Kiggundu, A.*, Vuylsteke, D. and Gold, C., in: Mobilizing IPM for sustainable banana production in Africa: proceedings of a workshop on banana IPM, Nelspruit, South Africa, 23-28 November 1998, pages 87-96, INIBAP, 1999.
 
Recognition and duration of larval instars of banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus Germar, in Uganda, Gold, C., Nemeye, P. and Coe, R., in: African Entomology, volume 7, number 1, pages 49-62, ISSN 1021-3589, 1999.
 
Relative importance of nematodes, weevils (Cosmopolites sordidus) and leaf diseases as Musa production constraints in central Uganda, Speijer, P., Gold, C. and Dusabe, J., in: Abstracts of the 14th symposium of the Nematological Society of Southern Africa, Dikhololo, South Africa, 30 May 2 June, pages 16, 1999.
 
Selection of sampling methods for evaluating banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) damage on highland cooking banana (Musa spp., genome group AAA-EA), Ragama, P., Gold, C. and Rukazambuga, N., in: Proceedings, Kampala, Uganda, 2002.
 
The banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar), is a potential vector of Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum in bananas, Were, E., Nakato, V., Ocimati, W., Ramathani, I., Olal, S.* and Beed, F., in: Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, pages 1-8, ISSN 0706-0661, 2015. [DOI]
 
The effects of banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) damage on highland banana growth, yield and stand duration in Uganda, Gold, C., Kagezi, G.*, Night, G. and Ragama, P., in: Annals of Applied Biology, volume 145, number 3, pages 263-269, ISSN 0003-4746, 2004.
 
The elusive banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus Germar, Karamura, E. B.* and Gold, C., in: Acta Horticulturae, volume 540, pages 471-485, 2000.
 
The influence of crop management on banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) populations and damage to highland cooking banana (cv. Atwalira) in Uganda, Rukazambuga, N., Gold, C., Gowen, S. and Ragama, P., in: Bulletin of Entomological Research, volume 92, pages 413-421, ISSN 0007-4853, 2002.
 
Thermal response and horizontal transmission of cameroonian isolates of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae - candidates for microbial controls of the banana root borer Cosmopolites sordidus, Membang, G., Ambang, Z., Mahot, H. C., Fotso Kuate, A., Fiaboe, K. and Hanna, R., in: Fungal Ecology, volume 50, number -: 101042, pages 1-9, ISSN 1754-5048, 2021. [DOI]
 
Yield loss in East African highland banana (Musa spp., AAA-EA group) caused by the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus Germar, Rukazambuga, N., Gold, C. and Gowen, S., in: Crop Protection, volume 17, number 7, pages 581-589, ISSN 0261-2194, 1998.
 
The role of crop improvement in pest and disease management, Lorenzen, J., Tenkouano, A., Bandyopadhyay, R., Vroh Bi, I., Coyne, D. and Tripathi, L., in: Acta Horticulturae, volume 828, pages 305-314, ISSN 0567-7572, 2009.
 
Keywords:Banana weevil; black leaf streak; burrowing nematode; Cosmopolites sordidus; host-plant resistance; map-based cloning; Musa; Mycosphaerella; plantain; Radopholus similis

Host plant odours enhance the responses of adult banana weevil to the synthetic aggregation pheromone Cosmolure+, Tinzaara, W., Gold, C., Dicke, M., Van Huis, A. and Ragama, P., in: International Journal of Pest Management, volume 53, number 2, pages 127-137, ISSN 0967-0874, 2007.
 
Abstract:
Attraction of adult banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus to volatiles from banana pseudostem tissue and the synthetic pheromone Cosmolure+ presented singly or in combination, was studied in the laboratory and in the field. Olfactometric studies in the laboratory showed that 50 g of fermented banana pseudostem tissue was as attractive as pheromone but more attractive than 50 g of fresh pseudostem tissue. In the laboratory, volatiles from pseudostem tissue had an additive effect on attraction of weevils to the pheromone but the effect was not significant in the field. Field trials, however, showed that attractiveness to weevils was positively correlated with the amount of fermented tissue added to the pheromone. The results indicate that fresh or fermented pseudostem tissue may enhance pheromone trap catches but the effect was not large enough to warrant their deployment for the optimisation of the infochemical-based trapping system for the management of C. sordidus.

Screenhouse and field persistence of nonpathogenic endophytic Fusarium oxysporum in Musa tissue culture plants, Paparu, P., Dubois, T., Gold, C., Adipala, E.*, Niere, B. and Coyne, D., in: Microbial Ecology, volume 55, number 3, pages 561-568, ISSN 1432-184X, 2008.
 
Abstract:
Two major biotic constraints to highland cooking banana (Musa spp., genome group AAA-EA) production in Uganda are the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus and the burrowing nematode Radopholus similis. Endophytic Fusarium oxysporum strains inoculated into tissue culture banana plantlets have shown control of the banana weevil and the nematode. We conducted screenhouse and field experiments to investigate persistence in the roots and rhizome of two endophytic Fusarium oxysporum strains, V2w2 and III4w1, inoculated into tissue-culture banana plantlets of highland cooking banana cultivars Kibuzi and Nabusa. Re-isolation of F. oxysporum showed that endophyte colonization decreased faster from the rhizomes than from the roots of inoculated plants, both in the screenhouse and in the field. Whereas rhizome colonization by F. oxysporum decreased in the screenhouse (4-16 weeks after inoculation), root colonization did not. However, in the field (17-33 weeks after inoculation), a decrease was observed in both rhizome and root colonization. The results show a better persistence in the roots than rhizomes of endophytic F. oxysporum strains V2w2 and III4w1.