A5092190253- Plant and animal studies
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
- Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
Pennsylvania State University
2023-2024
University of Idaho
2023-2024
The explosive expansion of the global population and technological progress has greatly influenced agriculture food production. However, this is threatened by climate change, which unleashes a slew issues like carbon dioxide (CO2) increases, frequent droughts, temperature shifts that present substantial obstacle to crop yields security. ramifications these climatic factors on insect pest biology ecology are profound, given pests depend heavily factors. Since productivity tightly connected...
Ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) are critical pests of ornamental nursery trees, which attracted to ethanol-emitting stressed trees. The limited efficacy traditional insecticides for their control calls alternative management strategies, such as semiochemical repellents. This study assessed the multiple experimental repellent formulations across field and semi-field trials determine potential reducing ambrosia beetle captures attacks under different environmental...
Abstract Pre-release host specificity testing can reliably predict the environmental safety of weed biological control agent (BCA) candidates but typically does not consider their host-finding behavior. Therefore, BCA that do utilize non-target plants in field post-release, despite development on such pre-release tests, may be prematurely disqualified for release. We addressed this issue with seedpod weevil Ceutorhynchus peyerimhoffi , a candidate invasive Eurasian mustard Isatis tinctoria ....
Abstract Pre‐release host range assessments of weed biocontrol agent (BCA) candidates typically rely on no‐choice and choice feeding, oviposition, development tests. However, these tests may exclude potentially environmentally safe BCA from consideration if they develop nontarget plant species in that would not colonize the field because behavioral barriers during selection. Here, we examined responses Ceutorhynchus rusticus Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) to olfactory visual cues nine...
ABSTRACT Shelter‐building insects are important ecosystem engineers, playing critical roles in structuring arthropod communities. Nonetheless, the influence of leaf shelters and arthropods on plant–associated microbiota remains largely unexplored. Arthropods that visit or inhabit plants can contribute to microbial community, resulting significant changes plant–microbe interactions. By artificially constructing shelters, we provide evidence shelter‐building not only community structure but...
Shelter-building insects are important ecosystem engineers, playing critical roles in structuring arthropod communities. Nonetheless, the influence of leaf shelters and arthropods on plant-associated microbiota remains largely unexplored. Arthropods that visit or inhabit plants can contribute to microbial community, resulting significant changes plant-microbe interactions. By artificially constructing shelters, we provide evidence shelter-building not only community structure but also impact...