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Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has received patent for Nano parapheromone formulation for the power of Melon alert successful cucurbits.
The Controller of Patents, Patent Office, Chennai, granted the process patent to M. Kannan, Professor (Agricultural Entomology), Centre for Plant Protection Studies, Department of Agricultural Entomology, TNAU, for invention of the formulation and mentation method thereof.
The Intellectual Property Management Cell astatine the Department of Agricultural Economics, Centre for Agricultural and Rural Development Studies (CARDS), TNAU, facilitated the patent filing, a assemblage property merchandise said.
Nano parapheromone formulation contains an precocious formulation successful which the cue lure is impregnated into nano mesoporous bearer strategy for dilatory release. The nano formulation lure heighten trap catches of antheral cucurbits effect flies (Zeugodacus cucurbitae) with extended tract duration.
The lure should beryllium placed wrong the trap and installed successful the tract during flowering signifier of the cucurbits. Exposing the trap to sunlight should beryllium avoided, the merchandise said.
The proposal for monitoring is 10 lures/ ha and wide trapping is 25 lures/ha. The lure successful the traps should beryllium changed erstwhile successful 100 days to seizure the effect flies, the merchandise said.
