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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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Martine J. Barons, Lael E. Walsh, Edward E. Salakpi and Linda Nichols
The EU Green Deal requires the reduction in pesticides and fertilisers in food crop production, whilst the sustainable development goals require reductions in food loss and food waste. In a complex and interacting system like the food system, these goals...
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B. Megala Devi, Samyuktha Guruprasath, Pooraniammal Balu, Anirudha Chattopadhyay, Siva Sudha Thilagar, Kanaga Vijayan Dhanabalan, Manoj Choudhary, Swarnalatha Moparthi and A. Abdul Kader Jailani
Recent advancements in molecular biology have revolutionized plant disease diagnosis and management. This review focuses on disease diagnosis through serological techniques, isothermal amplification methods, CRISPR-based approaches, and management strate...
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Regiane Cristina de Oliveira, Pedro Hiroshi Passos Ikuno, Dirceu Pratissoli, José Romário de Carvalho, William Wyatt Hoback and Bruno Alexis Zachrisson Salamina
Brazil is one of the largest producers of pulses globally, and soybean ranks highly in terms of production. However, pests increase crop production costs and affect oilseed production and quality. Pests are primarily controlled by chemicals, leading to c...
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Madeleine G. Barton, Hazel Parry, Paul A. Umina, Matthew R. Binns, Thomas Heddle, Ary A. Hoffmann, Joanne Holloway, Dustin Severtson, Maarten Van Helden, Samantha Ward, Rachel Wood and Sarina Macfadyen
Despite the known benefits of integrated pest management, adoption in Australian broadacre crops has been slow, in part due to the lack of understanding about how pests and natural enemies interact. We use a previously developed process-based model to pr...
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Yuzhe Du, Shane Scheibener, Justin George, Narayanan Kannan and Maribel Portilla
The tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris, and the red-banded stink bug, Piezodorus guildinii, pose significant economic threats to cotton and soybean crops in the mid-southern USA. However, the efficacy of insecticide spraying is comparatively low, and ...
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Zvi Mendel, Hillary Voet, Ilan Nazarian, Svetlana Dobrinin and Dana Ment
The red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) inflicts widespread damage in date palm plantations and urban settings, leading to stand loss and safety concerns, intensified by the economic and ecological burdens of synthetic preventive treatments. A no...
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Yogeswaranathan Kalyani, Liam Vorster, Rebecca Whetton and Rem Collier
In the last decade, digital twin (DT) technology has received considerable attention across various domains, such as manufacturing, smart healthcare, and smart cities. The digital twin represents a digital representation of a physical entity, object, sys...
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Muthusamy Janaki, Pavana K. Sivadasan Unni, Vethamonickam Stanley-Raja, Sengottayan Senthil-Nathan, Bader O. Almutairi and Ahmed Abdel-Megeed
Agricultural pests can be effectively controlled using microbes, providing an eco-friendly alternative to available synthetic pesticides. Suitable entomopathogenic bacterial strains were collected from agricultural fields and evaluated for their insectic...
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Robert P. Larkin
The impacts of two different cover crop (CC) strategies, as well as compost, silicon (Si), and biocontrol (BC) soil amendments were evaluated on soil chemical and biological properties, crop development and yield, and disease and pest issues in organic v...
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