Hymenopteran parasitoid complex and fall armyworm: a case study in eastern India

Tapamay Dhar PRATEEK MADHAB BHATTACHARYA Mahesh Gathala Alison Laing (2024, [Artículo])

Fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) has significantly affected maize crop yields, production efficiency, and farmers’ incomes in the Indian Eastern Gangetic Plains region since it was first observed in India in 2018. A lack of awareness by maize growers of the appropriate selection, method, and timing of insecticide application not only creates a barrier to sustainable FAW control but also contributes to increased environmental pollution, reduced human health and increased production costs. We demonstrated that FAW inflicted the most damage in early whorl growth stage of maize, regardless of whether chemical insecticides were applied. FAW egg masses and larvae collected from maize fields in which no insecticides had been sprayed showed high parasitism rates by parasitoid wasps; in contrast fields that had been sprayed had much lower rates of parasitism on FAW. Ten hymenopteran parasitoids were observed in maize fields across the study region, suggesting a diversity of natural methods to suppress FAW in maize at different growth stages. These included two FAW egg parasitoids and eight FAW larval parasitoids. Microplitis manilae Ashmead was the most abundant FAW larval parasitoid species, and Telenomus cf. remus was the dominant FAW egg parasitoid species. Endemic FAW parasitoids such as those observed in this study have great potential as part of a sustainable, cost-effective agroecological management strategy, which can be integrated with other methods to achieve effective control of FAW.

CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA FALL ARMYWORMS MAIZE INSECTICIDES INSECT CONTROL

Publisher Correction: Gut microbiota mediate caffeine detoxification in the primary insect pest of coffee (Nature Communications, (2015), 6, 1, (7618), 10.1038/ncomms8618)

Javier A. Ceja-Navarro Fernando E. Vega Ulas Karaoz Zhao Hao Petr Kosina Francisco Infante Trent Northen Eoin Brodie (2023, [Artículo])

Antibiotic Frass Non Antibiotic CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA MICROBIAL FLORA PEST INSECTS HYPOTHENEMUS HAMPEI CAFFEINE

Sexual harassment and stalking in female university students: negative emotions and coping with these forms of gender-based violence

Karla Jazmín Rodríguez Hernández ADRIANA RODRIGUEZ BARRAZA Maria Carolina Agoff (2023, [Artículo, Artículo])

Stalking and sexual harassment, as expressions of gender violence in the field of higher education, are very pressing problems as they have been exhibited by the protest movements that have arisen in Higher Education Institutions. The objective of this work is to analyze the narratives of university women who experienced stalking and/or sexual harassment in Higher Education Institutions in the municipalities of Tampico and Ciudad Madero in the state of Tamaulipas. The purpose was to learn about their experiences and their way of dealing with these forms of gender violence, using qualitative research and a phenomenological design. The technique used for data collection was the semi-structured interview. The selection of the informants was based on intentional sampling and the number of cases examined was guided by the saturation criterion, the total number of participants being thirteen. The analysis of the interviews shows that acts of stalking and sexual harassment provoke various emotions in women that can shed light on the problem of violence from the perspective of the victims, instead of considering only their own explanations, which are often rationalized or consistent with socially legitimized meanings. In sum, the study of emotions allows us to conclude that women within the university context suffer from a psychophysical discomfort that does not allow them to live a full university life.

Emociones instituciones de educación superior acoso sexual hostigamiento sexual violencia de género CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES Emotions, higher education institutions, sexual stalking, sexual harassment

Maize ZmBES1/BZR1-3 and-9 transcription factors negatively regulate drought tolerance in transgenic arabidopsis

Fuai Sun XUECAI ZHANG Haoqiang Yu (2022, [Artículo])

BZR1s CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA ARABIDOPSIS DNA BINDING PROTEINS PLANT PROTEIN TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS DROUGHT GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION GENETICS MAIZE METABOLISM TRANSGENIC PLANTS ABIOTIC STRESS

Editorial: Evolution of abiotic stress responses in land plants

Ana Luisa Garcia-Oliveira (2023, [Artículo])

Land Plants Molecular Responses Plant Stress Biology CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA ABIOTIC STRESS TERRESTRIAL PLANTS CLIMATE CHANGE

Chapter 20. Insect resistance

Wuletaw Tadesse Marion Harris Leonardo Abdiel Crespo Herrera Zakaria Kehel (2022, [Capítulo de libro])

Gene Introgression Insect Resistance CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA BREEDING GENETICS INSECT CONTROL

TELA Project: An update

Yoseph Beyene (2023, [Objeto de congreso])

CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA MAIZE HYBRIDS PEST INSECTS RESEARCH

Efficacy of drought-tolerant and insect-protected transgenic TELA® maize traits in Nigeria

Yoseph Beyene (2023, [Artículo])

Stem Borer TELA® Hybrids CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA FALL ARMYWORMS GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION STEM EATING INSECTS TRANSGENIC PLANTS MAIZE HYBRIDS

Forest proximity positively affects natural enemy mediated control of fall armyworm in Southern Africa

Frédéric Baudron Terence Sunderland (2022, [Artículo])

Insectivorous Birds Bat Predation Maize Cultivation CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA FALL ARMYWORMS BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL INSECTIVOROUS ANIMALS MAIZE PREDATOR PREY RELATIONS

Important wheat diseases in E. Africa and strategies to enhance durable resistance

sridhar bhavani (2022, [Objeto de congreso])

CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA RUSTS DISEASE RESISTANCE WHEAT BLASTS (OF PLANTS) ADULT PLANT RESISTANCE