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Research Publications - Pest Management Division

  • Kumarasinghe, N.C. and Ranasinghe, M.A.S.K. (1985), Life history and monthly incidence of sugarcane leaf hopper Pyrilla perpusilla singhalensis Fennha (Homoptera: Lophopidae) in Kantale., Proceedings of the 41st Annual sessions of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 1985: 38
  • Kumarasinghe, N.C. and Ranasinghe, M.A.S.K. (1986), A preliminary study on the extent of damage made by termites to seed sets of sugarcane in rainfed sugarcane plantations at Sevanagala, Proceedings of the 42nd Annual sessions of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 1986: 70.
  • Kumarasinghe, N.C. and Ranasinghe, M.A.S.K. (1987), Reproductive biology of the pink mealybug Saccharicoccus Saccharii (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae) of Sugarcane grown in Sri Lanka, Proceedings of the 43rd Annual sessions of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 1987: 97
  • Kumarasinghe, N.C. and Ranasinghe, M.A.S.K.(1988), Effect of environmental factors on populations of the sugarcane leafhopper Pyrilla perpusilla singhalensis, Proceedings of the 44th Annual sessions of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 1988: 70.       
  • Kumarasinghe, N.C. (1988).,Studies on the damage by termites to seed sets and to post harvest stubble of sugarcane grown in rainfed sugarcane plantations in the dry zone of Sri Lanka,Proceedings of the the 10 th soil zoology Colloquium, Bangalore, India. 7th to 13th August 1988.
  • Kumarasinghe, N.C. and Ranasinghe, M.A.S.K.(1988), Incidence of termite damage in sugarcane grown in Sri Lanka, Beitrage Trop.Land Wirtsch Veterinarmed, 26 :303-307.
  • Kumarasinge, N.C. and Wratten, S.D.(1992), Host plant resistance mechanism in sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum)to the lophopid pant hopper Pyrilla perpusilla (homoptera : Lophopidae), International organisation for biological and integrated of noxious animals and plants/ West Palaeartic Regional station Bulletin, 16(5): 144-154.
  • Kumarasinghe, N.C. Jepson, P.C. and Smartt, J. (1994), Regression model forestimating the antibiotic effect of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) to the lophopid plant hopper Pyrilla perpusilla walker,  Med .Fac.Landbou w.w. Univ.Gent  59/2a: 235-242.
  • Kumarasinghe, N.C. (1994), Host plant resistance in sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum)to the lophopid plant hopper Pyrilla perpusilla Walker (Homoptera: Lophopidae), Ph.D. thesis, University of Southampton, U.K. 164 pp.
  • Kumarasinge, N.C. and Wratten, S.D. (1996), The sugarcane lophopid plant hopper Pyrilla perpusilla.(Homoptera :lophopidae): a review of its biology, pest status and control, Bulletin of Entomological Research, 86: 485-498.
  • Senaviratne, J.A.U.T. and Kumarasinghe, N.C. (1997), Biological control of the sugarcane plant hopper Pyrilla perpusilla walker by using the parasitic moth Epiricania melonoleuca (Fletcher) in Sri Lanka, Proceedings of the 53rd Annual sessions of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancementof Science, Matara, Sri Lanka. 1997: 97.
  • Kumarasinghe, N.C. and Ekanayake, H.M.R.K. (1998), Incidence of Sugarcane parasitic nematodes in the Siyambalanduwa area and the effect of Physical factors on their population levels, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium of Afro-Asian Society of Nematologists, Coimbatore, India. 1999: 63-67.
  • Kumarasinge, N.C. and Wratten, S.D.(1998), The occurence of hydroxamic acids in sugarcane and their role on the sugarcane plant hopper Pyrilla perpusilla.(Homoptera :lophopidae), Sugarcane, 5: 18-22.
  • Kumarasinghe, N.C. (1999), Integrated crop protection in sugarcane: current advances and future possibilities, Proceedings of the Seminar on Pest control in the next millennium, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 1999: 93-97.
  • Kumarasinghe, N.C., Wratten, S.D. and Jepson, P.C. (2001), Morphological basis for resistance in sugarcane to Pyrilla perpusilla Walker (Homoptera : Lophopidae), International Journal of Pest Management, 47(2): 127-134.
  • Kumarasinghe, N.C. and Jones, P. (2001), Identification of White Leaf Disease of Sugarcane in Sri Lanka, Sugar Tech, 3 (1&2): 55-58.
  • Senaviratne, J.A.U.T., Kumarasinghe, N.C.  and Ariyawansha, B.D.S.K. (2001), Effect of Internode borer Chilo sacchariphagus indicus (Kapur) damage on yield and juice quality of sugarcane, Proceedings of the 57th Annual sessions of the Sri Lanka Association for theAdvancement of Science, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. 2001: .
  • Senaviratne J.A.U.T. and Kumarasinghe, N.C (2002), Biological  Control of the sugarcane planthopper by the moth Epiricania melanoleuca (Fletcher) in Sri Lanka., Sugar Tech,  4 (1&2): 26-32
  • Kumarasinghe, N.C (2003), Insect fauna associated with sugarcane in Sri Lanka, Journal of Environmental Biology, 24(4):

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