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The pivotal roles of gut microbiota in insect plant interactions for sustainable pest management
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2023 The gut microbiota serves as a critical “organ” in the life cycle of animals, particularly in the intricate interplay between herbivorous pests and plants.
Yuxin Zhang, Shouke Zhang, Letian Xu
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Recommending Advanced Deep Learning Models for Efficient Insect Pest Detection
Agriculture, 2022 Insect pest management is one of the main ways to improve the crop yield and quality in agriculture and it can accurately and timely detect insect pests, which is of great significance to agricultural production.
Wei Li +4 more
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Molecular mechanisms, genetic mapping, and genome editing for insect pest resistance in field crops
Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2022 Improving crop resistance against insect pests is crucial for ensuring future food security. Integrating genomics with modern breeding methods holds enormous potential in dissecting the genetic architecture of this complex trait and accelerating crop ...
S. H. Wani +8 more
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BMC Biology, 2022 Background Nitrogen is considered the most limiting nutrient element for herbivorous insects. To alleviate nitrogen limitation, insects have evolved various symbiotically mediated strategies that enable them to colonize nitrogen-poor habitats or exploit ...
Xueming Ren +11 more
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Entomopathogenic microorganisms: their role in insect pest management
Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2021 Background Entomopathogens are pathogenic to insect pests. Several types of naturally occurring, viz. fungus, bacteria, viruses, and nematodes, infect a range of insect pests and help manage crop growth.
B. Deka, C. Baruah, A. Babu
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Insects, 2022 Aedes aegypti is the primary vector of diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, Zika fever, and yellow fever. The sterile insect technique (SIT) has been proposed as a species-specific and environment-friendly tool for the suppression of mosquito vector ...
Muhammad Misbah-ul-Haq +4 more
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Insect pest management in the age of synthetic biology
Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2021 Summary Arthropod crop pests are responsible for 20% of global annual crop losses, a figure predicted to increase in a changing climate where the ranges of numerous species are projected to expand.
Rubén Mateos Fernández +11 more
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Malaria Journal, 2020 Background With the fight against malaria reportedly stalling there is an urgent demand for alternative and sustainable control measures. As the sterile insect technique (SIT) edges closer to becoming a viable complementary tool in mosquito control, it ...
Nicole J. Culbert +8 more
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Multi-Scale Convolution-Capsule Network for Crop Insect Pest Recognition
Electronics, 2022 Accurate crop insect pest identification in fields is useful to control pests and beneficial to agricultural yield and quality. However, it is a difficult and challenging problem due to the crop insect pests being small with various sizes, postures ...
Cong Xu +3 more
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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022 The mosquito species Aedes aegypti is the primary transmitter of viruses that cause endemic diseases like dengue in Pakistan. It is also a cause of other vector-borne diseases like yellow fever, Zika fever, and chikungunya, which significantly impact ...
Muhammad Misbah-ul-Haq +5 more
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