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Donald Manigat, Karolayne L. Campos, Joyce S. dos Santos, Catiane O. Souza, Jorge B. Torres, Fábio A. Suinaga and Cristina S. Bastos
Some of the key pests of tomatoes are virus vectors, such as whiteflies, green peach aphids, and thrips, mainly because there is a lack of full resistance to the transmitted viruses. Alternatives to reduce this problem include the use of a push-and-pull ...
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Yuanyuan Zhang, Youxin Yu, Meiqi Xu, Jingyan Liao, Chenjia Shao, Liran Fu, Mingshi Qian, Gang Xu and Guoqing Yang
The rice stripe virus (RSV) is transmitted by the small brown planthopper Laodelphax striatellus in a persistent and circulative?propagative manner. During the last few decades, RSV has caused serious disease outbreaks in rice fields in China. The result...
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Alexander Gaffke, Maritza Romero and Hans Alborn
Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs), small soil-dwelling non-segmented roundworms, are obligate parasites of insects and commonly used in agriculture for biological control of insect pests. For successful reproduction, EPNs must identify, move towards, and...
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Liqiang Cui, Jingwen Ma, Guixiang Quan, Jinlong Yan, James A. Ippolito and Hui Wang
Biochar has been widely studied to reduce multiple contaminant sources in one matrix (e.g., several heavy metals in soils), yet less attention has been paid to accelerating pesticide degradation while in the presence of any heavy metals, such as when kas...
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Eirini Anastasaki, Aikaterini Psoma, Savvina Toufexi, Georgios Partsinevelos, Dimitrios Papachristos, Dimitrios Avtzis and Panagiotis Milonas
Curculio elephas is an oligophagous insect, attacking fruits of chestnut (Castanea spp.) and oak (Quercus spp.). It is considered one of the most important pests of European chestnut (Castanea sativa) in Europe and it occurs in a continuous range through...
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A. A. M. Khiew
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The demand toward higher agricultural yield to support the rampant annual global population growth (1.1%) has exerted a great pressure on the usage of chemical pesticide and fertilizer in agriculture industry. However, the excessive application of modern...
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Andrzej Sioma, Jaroslaw Socha and Anna Klamerus-Iwan
Bark microrelief (BM), or the spatial patterning of bark texture, is an important bark characteristic shown to significantly affect the ecophysiological functioning of forest ecosystems. BM influences bark micrometeorological conditions and stemflow gene...
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Yang Yao,Khoon-Seng Yeo
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The mobility and maneuverability of winged insects have been attracting attention, but the knowledge on the behavior of free-flying insects is still far from complete. This paper presents a computational study on the aerodynamics and kinematics of a free...
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Stephanie I. J. Holzhauer, Steffen Franke, Christopher C. M. Kyba, Alessandro Manfrin, Reinhard Klenke, Christian C. Voigt, Daniel Lewanzik, Martin Oehlert, Michael T. Monaghan, Sebastian Schneider, Stefan Heller, Helga Kuechly, Anika Brüning, Ann-Christin Honnen and Franz Hölker
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is one of the most obvious hallmarks of human presence in an ecosystem. The rapidly increasing use of artificial light has fundamentally transformed nightscapes throughout most of the globe, although little is known about...
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Tomislav Curkovic, Catalina Ferrera
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Callisphyris apicicornis is a fruit pest of increasing concern in Chile. To aid in the identification of its sex pheromone for use in the management of this insect, ?calling? (pheromone release) of females and ?orientation and searching? behaviors of ...
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