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Waqas Wakil, Maria C. Boukouvala, Nickolas G. Kavallieratos, Aqsa Naeem, Muhammad Usman Ghazanfar and Saleh S. Alhewairini
Tetranychus urticae is an important pest of tomato crops globally, affecting plant yield and growth. Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium robertsii have the potential to control T. urticae. We investigated the influence of two B. bassiana (i.e., WG-12 and ...
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Waleed S. Alwaneen, Waqas Wakil, Nickolas G. Kavallieratos, Mirza Abdul Qayyum, Muhammad Tahir, Khawaja G. Rasool, Mureed Husain, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood and David Shapiro-Ilan
The red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae), is a destructive and voracious pest of palm species worldwide. Due to environmental and regulatory concerns, ecologically safe alternatives to synthetic chemical...
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Luis J. Amaro Leal, Arturo Huerta de la Peña, Ignacio Ocampo Fletes, Pedro Antonio López, Nemesio Villa-Ruano and Omar Romero-Arenas
Leafcutter ants (Atta spp.) are one of the mos t economically harmful pests in agriculture, considered dominant in the Neotropics and South America. Mature colonies of A. mexicana have a great economic impact on Mexico?s agriculture. Microbial agents in ...
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Jovan Krndija, Aleksandar Ivezic, Ankica Sarajlic, Tijana Baro?evic, Boris Kuzmanovic, Kristina Petrovic, Isidora Stojacic and Branislav Trudic
The accessible literature covered in this paper commonly highlights psyllids as a significant group of insects affecting pear trees, posing a continual challenge for commercial orchards. With the development of modern pear cultivation systems, Cacopsylla...
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Rosa A. Flores-Villarreal, Alonso A. Orozco-Flores, Servando H. Cantú-Bernal, Ricardo Gomez-Flores, Orquídea Pérez-González and Patricia Tamez-Guerra
Biological control by beneficial microorganisms is known to significantly reduce the effect of pests on crops yield. Among the biocontrol strategies is the use of entomopathogenic fungi such as Hirsutella citriformis, which has been applied to infect and...
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Cezary Tkaczuk and Anna Majchrowska-Safaryan
The aim of the study was to determine the effect of temperature on the colony growth and conidia germination of selected species of entomopathogenic fungi in the genus Cordyceps (C. farinosa, C. fumosorosea and C. coleopterorum) and one isolate of Paecil...
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Spiridon Mantzoukas, Foteini Kitsiou, Ioannis Lagogiannis and Panagiotis A. Eliopoulos
The cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a notorious agricultural pest with world-wide distribution, extreme polyphagy, high mobility and fecundity, facultative diapause, and significant resistance to chemical insecti...
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Valme Jurado, Yolanda Del Rosal, Cristina Liñan, Tamara Martin-Pozas, Jose Luis Gonzalez-Pimentel and Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez
Nerja Cave, Southern Spain, was revealed as an important biodiversity reservoir from which several novel species of Aspergillus were described. We carried out an aerobiological study in Nerja Cave to assess the origin of airborne fungi. This study quanti...
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Spiridon Mantzoukas, Ioannis Lagogiannis, Katerina Karmakolia, Anastasia Rodi, Maria Gazepi and Panagiotis A. Eliopoulos
Fungal virulence is multifaceted and dependent on multiple abiotic factors. The present study represents an investigation of the effect of one such abiotic factor, that of the grain type, on the insecticidal action of three entomopathogenic fungal specie...
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Spiridon Mantzoukas and Panagiotis A. Eliopoulos
Among the non-chemical insect control methods, biological control is one of the most effective human and environmentally friendly alternatives. One of the main biological control methods is the application of entomopathogenic fungi (EPF). Today, biologic...
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