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Building capacity in vector‐borne plant virus research: The CONNECTED Network
Plant viruses spread by insects decimate crop yields globally, causing food security challenges in vulnerable areas, including regions of Africa. Interdisciplinary research is needed to protect future crop supplies. CONNECTED, the Community Network for African Vector‐Borne Plant Viruses, increased research capacity in Central, East, West and Southern ...
Nina F. Ockendon‐Powell +8 more
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Managing Potato Leafhoppers in Alfalfa
There have been recent reports of potato leafhopper in Iowa alfalfa (Photo 1), and it's time to think about assessing alfalfa stands. Potato leafhoppers do not overwinter in Iowa, but they are persistent alfalfa pests every growing season.
Hodgson, Erin
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The Potential for Pest Management Using Plant‐Derived Signaling Compounds
Plant‐derived signaling compounds mediate ecological interactions among plants, herbivores, their natural enemies, and neighboring plants. This graphical summary highlights three approaches to leveraging such ecological interactions for environmentally benign pest management: (1) Recruitment of natural enemies: Using herbivory‐induced plant volatiles ...
Junji Takabayashi +4 more
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Leafhoppers and Planthoppers: Their Bionomics, Pathogen Transmission and Management in Vineyards
Auchenorrhyncha is the hemipteran suborder that includes cicadas, leafhoppers, froghoppers or spittlebugs, planthoppers and treehoppers. Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) are cosmopolitan and one of the largest insect families with approximately 22,000 ...
Olivier, Chrystel +5 more
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A brief report on preliminary studies, during 1928, of leafhopper injury to legumes. Among the 15 species of Homoptera tested in cages on various legumes, only Empoasca fabae (Harris) caused the injury, which was serious on alfalfa, red clover, white clover, non-pubescent soybean, peanut, and sainfoin.
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Sharpshooters, Leafhoppers, Cicadellidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae)
Sharpshooter is a term commonly used to describe a group of leafhoppers in the family Cicadellidae. There have been several explanations for the use of this term.
Chris Tipping, Russell F. Mizell, III
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First record of Mermithid nematodes parasitizing leafhoppers in South America [PDF]
Nematodes of the family Mermithidae were found parasitizing adults and nymphs of the species Hortensia similis (Auchenorryncha: Cicadellidae).
Martín Miguel Montes +3 more
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These tiny plant-feeding insects are often considered pests due to the damage they can inflict on crops and gardens. Leafhoppers, treehoppers and spittlebugs (or froghoppers) are closely related to cicadas, and planthoppers are their more distant ...
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia
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Corn stunt is vectored by several leafhoppers
Corn stunt is vectored by several leafhoppers. The spiroplasma overwinters in the gut of leafhoppers. Spiroplasmas are cultured on defined media. They are facultative anaerobes, lacks a true cell wall and are motile. Doubly infected with maize rayado
Claflin, Larry
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Due to global warming longer periods of higher temperature in autumn and winter are expected which may result in an increasing importance of insect-transmitted viruses.
Antje Habekuß +3 more
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