Multi-trait evaluation of insecticidal treatments against yellow stem borer (Scirpophaga incertulus Walker) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), in rice using integrated analytical and visualization approaches
Abstract
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple food crop in South Asia; however, its productivity is severely constrained by the yellow stem borer, Scirpophaga incertulus Walker (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), a major pest that causes significant yield losses. Although several insecticides are available, there remains a gap in understanding their comparative efficacy, especially for newly released scented and high-yielding varieties, such as HUR-105 (Malviya Sugandhit-105), approved by the CVRC in 2009. Hence, this study was conducted to bridge the knowledge gap in the comparative multi-trait efficacy of insecticidal treatments against yellow stem borer in the newly released scented rice variety HUR-105, during the Kharif season of 2023–24 at the Agricultural Research Farm, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. A randomized complete block design was used with seven treatments: six insecticidal treatments and one untreated control, each replicated three times. Insecticides were applied upon reaching a 5% economic threshold level. The results showed that insecticidal treatment significantly reduced the pest damage. The combination of chlorantraniliprole 18.5% SC + fipronil 5% SC at 125 g a.i./ha recorded the lowest dead heart (5.65%) and white ear (4.07%) incidences, and the highest grain yield (4.63 t/ha). Intermediate efficacy was observed for fipronil and chlorantraniliprole alone, while the untreated control had the highest infestation and lowest yield (3.50 t/ha). Multi-trait and cluster analyses confirmed the superior performance of combination treatments. These findings highlight the potential of chlorantraniliprole + fipronil as a key component of yellow stem borer management. For sustainable use, future research should explore their integration into Integrated Pest Management programs, focusing on ecological safety, natural enemy compatibility, and adaptability across rice-growing regions.
Keywords
Chlorantraniliprole Fipronil HUR-105 Yellow stem borer IPM Multi-trait analysis Rice Yellow stem borer
Ethical Statement
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This study was conducted without any financial support or grants from funding agencies or academic institutions
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| Primary Language | English |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Entomology in Agriculture |
| Journal Section | Research Article |
| Authors | |
| Submission Date | December 19, 2025 |
| Acceptance Date | January 27, 2026 |
| Publication Date | March 2, 2026 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53663/turjfas.1845643 |
| IZ | https://izlik.org/JA55DT38TY |
| Published in Issue | Year 2026 Volume: 8 Issue: 1 |
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Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences is a peer-reviewed, international scientific journal that publishes and promotes research in Food and Agriculture Sciences worldwide. It is a fully open access journal, published biannually by DergiPark for the “Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBİM)”, a unit of “The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK)”. DergiPark provides online hosting services and an editorial workflow management system for academic journals published in Türkiye. The DergiPark project, undertaken by TÜBİTAK – ULAKBİM, is a public service in Türkiye whose mission is the web-based publication of academic journals and the operation of an online journal management system.
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Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences provides full open access to its publications according to the principle that providing scientific research to the public free of charge increases global information sharing. Furthermore, Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences does not charge any paper submission or processing charges and there is no open access publication fee for authors.
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Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences is an Open Access Journal, and does not charge any costs from authors, during article delivery, article-editorial processing, assessment and publication charges (page or color charges) in the printing stages.
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Otomatik Oluşturulan Kurul - Başlığı Düzenleyiniz
Associate Professor Derya ÖZTÜRK
In 2002, she graduated from Gaziosmanpaşa University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics. In 2006, she completed her graduate education in Gaziosmanpaşa University, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Master Program in Agricultural Economics. In 2008, she started to work as lecturer at Balıkesir University Gönen Vocational School. Her Ph.D degree was completed in 2011 in Gaziosmanpaşa University, Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Agricultural Economics. In 2012, she was appointed to Ordu University Ünye Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration as a Faculty Member. In 2018, she became Associate Professor in the Department of Production Management in the Department of Business Administration. She is still working as a Associate Professor at Ordu University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences.
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Biosystems Engineering
Field Crops
Food
Horticulture
Ornamental and Landscape
Plant Protection
Soil and Plant Nutrition
EDITORIAL BOARD
Prof. Dr. Ebubekir Altuntaş was born in 1967 in Sivas, he completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Sivas. He completed his undergraduate education at Ankara University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Mechanization between 1985 and 1989. He completed his master's degree at Gaziosmanpaşa University, Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences, Department of Agricultural Machinery between 1992-1994 and his doctorate at Selçuk University, Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences, Department of Agricultural Machinery between 1994-1998. In 1993, he started to work as a research assistant at Gaziosmanpaşa University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Machinery. He was appointed as Assistant Professor in 2000, Associate Professor in 2006 and Professor in 2012 at Gaziosmanpaşa University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Department of Agricultural Machinery Systems. He is still working at the same university. He has participated in many scientific and academic studies and activities and has more than 150 scientific articles and publications. He is married and has two children.
Dr. Erhan Sulejmani
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Food Technology and Nutrition, University of Tetova, North Macedonia
Dr. Erhan Sulejmani earned his Doctorate in Technical Sciences in Food Technology from the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. His doctoral research, supported by an international TUBITAK-funded project, was conducted at the Department of Food Engineering, İnönü University in Malatya, Turkey, and focused on biochemical and chemical changes during the ripening of hard cheeses.
He holds a Master of Agricultural Sciences in Dairy Technology, also from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, where he investigated the quality of white brined cheese under varying processing conditions. He completed his undergraduate studies in Veterinary Medicine in 2005.
Since 2006, Dr. Sulejmani has been active in academia, teaching and researching in the fields of dairy and meat processing technologies, food chemistry, and food hygiene. He was appointed Assistant Professor (Docent) in 2016 at the University of Tetova. He has participated in numerous national and international projects and is fluent in English.
His research interests include traditional and functional dairy products, cheese biochemistry, food quality and safety, and innovative food processing methods.
Jiban Shrestha is a plant breeder and is currently working in rice and maize breeding works. He has published more than 300 journal articles and 5 books. He has been editing and reviewing journal articles for internationally reputed publishers. Till date, he has reviewed more than 600 journal articles and edited more than 150 journal articles.
English, Hindi, Bangla
Since 1995 he has worked at the University of Zagreb firstly as young assistant and nowadays as a permanent full professor. He was head of the Dairy Science Department for six years (2015-2021). He teaches on ten subjects at University of Zagreb. Besides teaching at University of Zagreb, he taught at University of Split and at University of Knin (Croatia), as well as at the University of Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), at the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur (Turkey) and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA). His research interests include milk quality, cheese making, cheese ripening and Mediterranean traditional cheeses.
He has been sensory evaluator of cheeses and other dairy products for more than 20 years in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, and in the 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2022 World Championship Cheese Contest in Madison, USA, as well as in International Food Contest, Herning (Denmark, 2019).
Scientifically and professionally he was educated at IPC Livestock, Oenkerk (Netherlands), at ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Swiss) and at the University of Guelph (Canada). He is a member of the Croatian Dairy Union and the Editorial Board of the Scientific Journal Mljekarstvo. He has participated in more than 40 international symposiums and he presented five plenary presentations (twice in China, once in India and twice in Croatia).
As co-author he has published more than 140 scientific and professional papers, as well as five books:
1. Cheesemaking, (2014, Publisher Croatian Dairy Union; in Croatian),
2. Cheesemaking in Theory and Practice, (2015, Publisher: Karlovac University of Applied Science; in Croatian),
3. Croatian cheeses. In: The Oxford Companion to Cheese (2016, Publisher: Oxford University Press),
4. Processing of Sheep Milk. In: Handbook of Milks of Non-Bovine Mammals (Publisher: Wiley Blackwell, 2017),
5. Production of Sheep’s and Goat’s Cheese (2018, Publisher: Croatian Union of Sheep and Goat Breeders; in Croatian).
Professor Mohammad Shafiur Rahman is the author/co-author of over 450 technical articles including more than 160 journal papers and 15 books. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and award-wining Food Properties Handbook, and editor of the popular Handbook of Food Preservation published by CRC Press, Florida. First editions received the bestseller recognition and the third edition is now released. First edition was translated into Spanish. He was invited to serve as one of the Associate Editors for the Handbook of Food Science, Engineering and Technology, and one of the Editors for the Handbook of Food and Bioprocess Modeling Techniques published by CRC Press, FL. He has initiated the International Journal of Food Properties and serving as the founding Editor-in-Chief for more than 25 years, and serving in the editorial boards of 10 international journals and book series. He is serving as an Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Agricultural and Marine Sciences (CAMS), published by Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. In 1998, he has been invited and continued to serve as a Food Science Adviser for the International Foundation for Science, Sweden. He was invited as keynote/plenary speaker more than 15 international conferences in the food science and engineering area. He received the HortResearch Chairman's Award, BRAP Award, CAMS Outstanding Researcher Award 2003, SQU Distinction in Research Award 2008, Oman National Award 2020. In 2008, Professor Rahman has ranked among the top five Leading Scientists and Engineers of 57 OIC Member Countries in the Agroscience Discipline. In 2020, he was recognized among World Top 2% influential scholars around the World (ranked 107 among 48,454 food science researchers), published by Stanford University, USA.
Gordana Manevska-Tasevska is an Associate Professor and a policy analyst at the Department of Economics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research focuses on the performance of agricultural systems, with particular emphasis on economic and environmental efficiency, competitiveness, sustainability, resilience, innovation, and structural transformation, as well as their interaction with the Common Agricultural Policy.
Miroljub Barać is a full professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade. He is the author/co-author of over 350 scientific references, two monographs, one textbook and two auxiliary textbooks in the field of food science, food biochemistry. His area of interest is food biochemistry, biochemical transformations during the production of animal and plant products, and bioactive food components.
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