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Greenbug feeding-induced resistance to sugarcane aphids in sorghum

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Plants are attacked by multiple insect pest species and insect herbivory can alter plant defense mechanisms. The plant defense responses to a specific herbivore may also contribute to the herbivore growth/survival on plants. Feeding by one insect species
Heena Puri, Edith Ikuze, Jessica Ayala, Isabella Rodriguez, Rupesh Kariyat, Joe Louis, Joe Louis, Sajjan Grover   +7 more
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Adaptive Responses of Tropical Crops: A Multi‐Scale Omics Integrated Perspective

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Tropical crops integrate genomic, morphological, physiological, and ecological adaptations to thrive under extreme and variable environments. This review highlights how natural selection, domestication, and breeding shape stress resilience, resource‐use strategies, and productivity in sugarcane, banana, cassava, rubber and oil palm, offering new routes
Peilin Wang, Chenhui Li, Dongjiao Wang, Qibin Wu, Zhen Zeng, Huiming Guo, Han Cheng, Songbi Chen, Hongxing Cao, Hongmei Cheng, Jianghui Xie, Youxiong Que   +11 more
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Open‐land‐derived agroforestry and effects of abandonment of management of the main crop on ecosystem services and woody plant diversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Tropical forests are rapidly declining. One promising strategy to reverse the loss of tropical forest is the establishment of agroforestry on open land. We combined interviews with biodiversity surveys to learn general lessons from success and nonsuccess stories of the establishment of open‐land‐derived coffee agroforests in one of the world's ...
Lucas M. Fonzaghi, Kristoffer Hylander, Thiago S. de Melo, Ayco J. M. Tack   +3 more
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Optimizing the releasing strategy used for the biological control of the sugarcane borer Diatraea saccharalis by Trichogramma galloi with computer modeling and simulation

Scientific Reports
One of the challenges in augmentative biological control programs is the definition of releasing strategy for natural enemies, especially when macro-organisms are involved.
Adriano Gomes Garcia, Eric Wajnberg, José Roberto Postali Parra   +2 more
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TRAPPING AND DISRUPTION OF THE MATING ACTIVITY OF SCAPANES AUSTRALIS USING LIVE MALE AS BAIT IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

CORD, 1999
Scapanes australis is a major insect pest of coconut palms in Papua New Guinea. Field observations showed that on host plants like coconuts, male Scapanes always attracted females and other male members.
Kakul, T.K, Laup, S, Stathers, T., Beaudoin -Ollivier, L., Morin, J.P, Rochat, D   +5 more
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Mapping the global threat of Mythimna separata (Walker) and its economic implications for Brazil's agriculture

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Global models identified high‐risk areas for Mythimna separata invasion, highlighting major economic vulnerability for Brazilian crops and guiding targeted prevention and management strategies. Abstract BACKGROUND Identifying high‐risk areas for the introduction of invasive alien species is particularly important for agricultural pests with a broad ...
Gabriel Dorotel da Silva Ferreira, Cesar Augusto Marchioro   +1 more
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Biological Control in Brazil: an overview

Scientia Agricola, 2014
The use of Biological Control methods is on the increase, mainly as a result of the mobilization of human resources in entomology studies since the establishment of graduate programs in this country in the 1960s.
José Roberto Postali Parra
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Using a Generic Blend of Pheromones to Simultaneously Attract a Diversity of Elaterid Beetle Species Native to Eastern North America

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
We assessed attraction of eight elaterid species to a “generic” pheromone blend containing their eight known pheromones or sex attractants. All eight species were attracted by their specific attractants, as expected. Six species were attracted to the blend, but the remaining two species were strongly inhibited by unknown blend components.
Rachel M. Rusen, Jocelyn G. Millar, Thomas C. McElrath, Lawrence M. Hanks   +3 more
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From biology to biotechnology: Host‐regulation factors from parasitoid wasps are a source of bioactive molecules with translational potential

Insect Molecular Biology, EarlyView.
Parasitoid wasps deploy maternal and embryonic factors to reprogramme host physiology. Venom, calyx fluid, polydnaviruses, teratocytes and larval secretions act in a coordinated, compartmentalised manner. Host‐regulation factors are promising sources of insecticidal, antimicrobial and bioinspired translational molecules.
Ciro Pedro G. Pinto, Andrew A. Walker, Glenn F. King   +2 more
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Low Rates of Kaolin in Different Application Periods Reduce Diaphorina citri Population and Huanglongbing Incidence in Commercial Citrus Orchards

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Huanglongbing (HLB) is the most destructive citrus disease worldwide, and it has been disseminated by the Asian citrus psyllid Diaphorina citri, the vector of the causing agent Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus. Although processed kaolin reduces psyllid infestation, long‐term field data from commercial orchards are limited.
Marcelo Pedreira de Miranda, Wellington Ivo Eduardo, Renato Beozzo Bassanezi, Eduardo Augusto Girardi, Haroldo Xavier Linhares Volpe   +4 more
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