Chemical Warfare on Plant Pests and Diseases

Arthropod Pests and Plant Diseases

Research has concluded that global warming will likely increase abundance and occurrence of insect pests and plant diseases in agricultural systems. Most of the evidence cited for this increase is based on either empirically derived information, simulation models developed from laboratory observations and/or environmental extremes that resulted in pest outbreaks. While these phenomena can help ...

Chemical warfare

Leaf-cutting ants are well known for their highly complex social organization, which provides them with a strong defense against parasites invading their colonies. Besides this attribute, these insects have morphological, physiological and structural characteristics further reinforcing the defense of their colonies. With the discovery of symbiotic bacteria present on the integument of leaf-cutt...

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Mites (Acarina) as Vectors of Plant Pathogens and Relation of These Pests to Plant Diseases

Almost all plants are under attack by several types of enemies like herbivorous arthropods and plant pathogens. The purpose of this manuscript is to present a comprehensive outline of the pathogens that cause diseases of the various plants and are transmitted by mites. Mites are arachnids related to ticks and spiders, however, differ from insects, and are capable of infesting many orchards, tre...

Impact of climate change on insect pests, plant chemical ecology, tritrophic interactions and food production

1 International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502324, Telangana, India. 2 Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141004, India. 3 Department of Botany and Biotechnology, Degree College Sopore-193201, J&K, India. 4 Department of Entomology, SKUAST-K; Shalimar, Srinagar, J&K, India. *Corresponding author: abdul...