1. Another option for cultural control is the use of trap crops or catch crops. 2. Cotton, sunflower and linseed are also effective trap crops . 3. Many of the pests and diseases that afflict other pepper, as a sacrificial trap crop . 4. Researchers are looking at trap crops like sticky nightshade, " Solanum sisymbriifolium " in Europe. 5. Another way to utilize this research is to synthetically produce the compounds produced by trap crop . 6. This plant has been used as a trap crop to protect potatoes from potato cyst nematode. 7. Usage of trap crops is practiced in southwest Nigeria, which is known to be affecting against borers. 8. Gravid stemborer females are repelled from the main crop and are simultaneously attracted to the trap crop . 9. Leaf miner infection can be reduced or prevented by planting trap crops near the plants to be protected. 10. Trap crops promote the germination of " O . aegyptiaca " seeds but will not allow parasitism; these include flax, mung bean, maize, and sorghum.
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