Tag: biological control

Wireworms, the subterranean larvae of click beetles in the genus Agriotes, are among the most stubborn pests in European agriculture. ...

A new review documents the only fully successful classical biological control of a bark-beetle pest: releases of the specific predator ...

Chinese researchers have formally described Trichogramma vitessoides, a new species of minute egg parasitoid wasp discovered attacking the defoliating moth ...

Researchers in Michoacán, Mexico have confirmed for the first time that the figitid wasp Lopheucoila mexicana parasitizes the lance fly ...

A Brazilian field study mapped entomopathogenic nematodes across five tropical crops and found their occurrence linked to soil potassium and ...

Researchers at Hainan University combined transcriptomics, network analysis, and machine learning to show how Bacillus safensis strain H23 primes tomato ...

A newly characterized Bacillus velezensis strain combines a rich arsenal of antifungal genes and metabolites with strong disease control and ...

Two strains of the beneficial fungus Trichoderma harzianum reduced red pepper Phytophthora blight incidence by 90.9 percent while promoting plant ...

A first-of-its-kind study in northern Xinjiang's deserts documents a novel gall-inducing moth on black goji shrubs and reveals a highly ...

A high-throughput phenotyping study shows that mixtures of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi produce additive, synergistic, and antagonistic effects on tomato growth ...