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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations

Insect Science, EarlyView.
This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean, Xim Cerdá, Jérôme Orivel, Frédéric Azémar, Alexander L. Wild, Bruno Corbara, Axel Touchard   +6 more
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Stable flies preferentially oviposit on sites offering conspecific eggs with egg‐derived bacterial semiochemicals

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Stable flies preferentially oviposit on sites offering conspecific eggs with egg‐derived airborne semiochemicals. Egg‐borne bacterial symbionts, and Serratia marcescens in particular, produce odorants which attract gravid female flies and elicit oviposition.
Emmanuel Hung, Anya Gould, Stephanie Zaborniak, Caelen Watson, Regine Gries, Sukhmani Kaur, Kyra Stephens, Augustus Negraeff, Ryan Lam, Alpha Hui, Pantea Zamani, Aryan Monfared, Gerhard Gries   +12 more
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Adapting to Change: The Dynamic Crop Production Systems of Smallholder Farmers in the PNG Highlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder sweet potato farmers in Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands Province (EHP) face challenges as they navigate social, economic, demographic, and environmental change. While they routinely adapt to weather variability and shifting markets, population growth is placing additional strain on an already finely balanced farming system ...
Geoff Kuehne, Joe Koima, Lonica Aris, Ismael Nae, Akia Aira, Bennie Afigini, James Aniau, John Gahekave, Naomi Paul, Steven Crimp   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation and Identification of the Causal Agent of Brown Stalk Rot, A New Disease of Maize in South Africa [PDF]

Plant Disease, 2007
During 2004 to 2005, an unreported disease of maize (Zea mays) was observed on commercial fields in the Northwest and Mpumalanga Provinces of South Africa. Infected plants were stunted, with a vertical crack at the first internode. Inside the stem, a dark-brown, narrow lesion was present along the crack.
T, Goszczynska, W J, Botha, S N, Venter, T A, Coutinho   +3 more
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Anastrepha grandis: Distribution, Host Plants, and Management—A Review

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
This graphic summary illustrates the databases and languages used in the bibliographic search for the review of the geographic distribution of Anastrepha grandis (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the Americas and different regions of Brazil, the main host plants of the Cucurbitaceae family, the management strategies used, and the main challenges related to the
Liz Maria Matilde Duarte, Manoel Araécio Uchoa, Isaias de Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries have long occupied an intriguing and contested place in discussions of England's long‐run economic development. One key issue around which debate has coalesced is the living standards of the population as a whole and of different groups within it. We contribute to this debate by bringing forward new
Chris Briggs, Ben Jervis, Alice Forward, Tomasz Gromelski, Matthew Tompkins   +4 more
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The multidimensional regulation roles and mechanisms of calcium in fruit quality

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, EarlyView.
This review explores how calcium signaling molecule integrates plant hormones, environmental cues, and developmental signals to influence external fruit traits, internal nutritional properties, and physiological disorders. ABSTRACT Calcium (Ca2+), a dual‐functional mineral that serves both as an essential structural factor and a signaling molecule ...
Fei Jiang, Siyang Gao, Mengdi Li, Zeqi Zhao, Chengwei Yang, Ji‐Hong Liu, Chunlong Li   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Repertoire of Major Genes From Crop Wild Relatives for Breeding Disease‐Resistant Wheat, Rice, Maize, Soybean and Cotton Crops

Plant Breeding, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global food demand is predicted to rise anywhere from 59% to 98% by 2050 because of increasing population. However, the continued depletion of natural resources and increasing biotic and abiotic stresses will continue to pose significant threats to global food security in coming years.
Memoona Khalid, Hafiz Mamoon Rehman, Tsz‐Yan Cheung, Shakeel Ahmed, Ting Fung Chan, Hon‐Ming Lam   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transcriptome and Hormone Regulations Shape Drought Stress‐Dependent Fusarium Head Blight Susceptibility in Different Barley Genotypes

Plant, Cell &Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Little is known about regulatory mechanisms that crop plants use to respond to combinations of abiotic and biotic stress. We analysed four barley genotypes under simultaneous Fusarium culmorum infection and drought stress by phenotyping for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) disease, drought stress responses, hormone profiling and transcriptome ...
Felix Hoheneder, Christina Elisabeth Steidele, Michael Gigl, Corinna Dawid, Ralph Hückelhoven   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing Brown Rot Disease of Citrus Fruit Using Plant Extracts

Journal of Phytopathology
ABSTRACT Brown rot, caused by Phytophthora nicotianae and P. citrophthora , is a major disease of citrus fruit, leading to significant economic losses globally.
Gbenga Oluwaseyi Alabi, Vinesh Maharaj, Jacquie van der Waals, Luke Invernizzi, Teresa Coutinho   +4 more
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