A5099611015- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
The University of Melbourne
2024-2025
Non-target effects of insecticides used in agriculture can impact the ecosystem services provided by beneficial insects. Understanding broader chemical usage requires multi-species investigations on different insecticide active ingredients. In this work, we tested utility coated vials as a quick, cheap, and efficient dried residue toxicity assay. This method was compared against dishes sprayed with Potter tower, which is an industry standard instrument to apply precise doses. Our study...
Aphids (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea) are economically important crop pests worldwide. Because of growing issues with insecticide resistance and environmental contamination by insecticides, alternate methods being explored to provide aphid control. contain endosymbiotic bacteria that affect host fitness could be targeted as potential biocontrol agents, but such novel strategies should not impact the effectiveness traditional chemical In this work, we used a endosymbiont transinfection examine...
Populations under similar selection pressures may adapt via parallel evolution or dispersal of advantageous alleles. Here, we investigated insecticide resistance in the invasive blue-green aphid, Acyrthosiphon kondoi, which reproduces clonally Australia and has rapidly developed across geographic locations. Using genomic, transcriptomic, experimental approaches, explored evolutionary origins molecular mechanisms resistance. We first reference genome for A. kondoi (443.8 Mb, 28,405 annotated...