Talk:Desmodium
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[edit] Striga
Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher, in testimony to Agriculture and Forestry Committee of Senate of Canada, 5 December 2006, said:
- "Napier grass — that they can grow outside the borders of the corn, which actually attracts the corn borer. The corn borer likes the smell better than the corn, but it traps it; it has a sticky liquid. At the same time, they found another plant — a Desmodium plant — that can be grown between the corn. It is a very small nitrogen-fixing plant that has a smell that repels the corn borer. At the same time, the Striga weed also does not like it."
Can somebody who knows more about it than me clarify if she meant Striga or Napier grass? Trekphiler 08:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
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