Hemipteran insects are the most devastating pest for different crops of high economic value. Colocasia esculenta tuber agglutinin (CEA), a mannose binding monocot lectin from araceae family was previously reported by the present group to be effective against some members of this class of pests. In the present study, efficacy of this potent lectin has been extended to cotton aphid (Aphis gossypi...

Aphids cause significant damage to crop plants. Studies regarding predator-prey relationships in fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.) and cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) crops are important for understanding essential ecological interactions in the context of intercropping and for establishing pest management programs for aphids. This study evaluated the association among Hyadaphis foeniculi (Passe...

Genetic bottlenecks may occur in virus populations when only a few individuals are transferred horizontally from one host to another, or when a viral population moves systemically from the infection site. Genetic bottlenecks during the systemic movement of an RNA plant virus population were reported previously (H. Li and M. J. Roossinck, J. Virol. 78:10582-10587, 2004). In this study we mechani...

To assess biological control as a management tool for the cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover (Homoptera: Aphididae), the efficacy of Aphidius colemani Viereck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) for suppression of A. gossypii in greenhouse-grown chrysanthemums, Dendranthema grandiflora (Tzvelev), was compared with a pesticide standard, imidacloprid (Marathon 1% G) and an untreated check. No significant ...

Abstract The sid-1 (systemic interference defective) gene encodes a transmembrane protein that is an important participator in the systemic RNAi pathway and has been reported in several organisms. In insects, sid-1-like genes were described from Tribolium castaneum, Apis mellifera, Bombyx mori and Schistocerca americana, but were not found in Drosophila melanogaster and Anopheles gambiae. To in...

Soil physical and chemical properties can affect plant growth and nutrition, which in turn can affect a plantÕs attractiveness and susceptibility to insect herbivores. A further source of variation in these relationships is the spatial scale at which patterns are measured. Both the size of the area being sampled, or scale, and the distance between measurements, or grain, are parameters that aff...

Abstract In many cases, pesticides’ side effects on natural enemies have closely related to their exposure route. We assessed long-term lethal and sublethal of thiamethoxam (TMX) the predatory bug, Orius albidipennis (Reuter), fed Aphis gossypii Glover (Hemiptera: Aphididae), through three routes. First-instar nymphs were treated with maximum field recommended concentration (MFRC), ½ MFRC, ¼ MF...

Penyakit bercak bercincin pada pepaya yang disebabkan oleh Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) dilaporkan sudah menyebar luas di Indonesia. Pemencaran penyakit ini diketahui terjadi melalui bibit tanaman terinfeksi dan serangga vektor kutudaun. Penelitian dilakukan untuk menguji efisiensi penularan PRSV dua spesies kutudaun, yaitu Aphis gossypii Myzus persicae membuktikan bahwa tidak dapat ditularkan ...