Recycling sewage sludge (SS) as a soil amendment potentially causes soil heavy metals (HMs) contamination. This study investigated the potential roles of landscape plants co-planting in SS-amended soil remediation. Three landscape trees Mangifera persiciforma, Bischofia javanica, and Neolamarckia cadamba (NC), and three ground cover plants Dianella...
Entomopathogenic fungi from the genus Beauveria (Vuillemin) play an important role in controlling insect populations and have been increasingly utilized for the biological control of insect pests. Various studies have reported that Beauveria bassiana (Bals.), Vuill. also has the ability to colonize a broad range of plant hosts as endophytes without...
Terrestrial ecosystems support a high plant diversity where different plant types coexist. However, the mechanisms that support plant coexistence are not entirely clear. Savanna ecosystems that are nutrient and water limited are characterized by a unique ecological feature: the coexistence of trees and grasses. Tree-grass interactions in savannas a...
The complete genome of the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, has been reported. This is the first sequenced genome of a highly polyphagous and resistant agricultural pest. The question as to what the genome offers the community working on spider mite control is addressed.
Campos, Priscila TolentinoCosta, Maria Cecília DiasIsaias, Rosy Mary dos SantosMoreira, Ana Sílvia Franco PinheiroOliveira, Denis Coelho deLemos-Filho, José Pires de
Although gall diversity in the Neotropical region is immense, comparative studies on the phenology of host plants and their galls are scarce. Gall systems generally require high levels of phenological synchrony between the associated organisms. The relationships between the phenology of two leaf galls induced by an unidentified Cecidomyiidae in Asp...
Bij biologische bestrijding van plagen ontstaat al snel een complex voedselweb met allerlei onderlinge interacties die effect hebben op het resultaat van de bestrijding. Het is belangrijk deze interacties te begrijpen om zo tot betere keuzes te komen bij het nemen van maatregelen tegen plagen. Verder vormt het de basis voor het ontwikkelen van nieu...
Functional-structural plant models (FSPMs) describe in quantitative terms the development over time of the three-dimensional (3D) structure of plants as governed by physiological processes and affected by environmental factors. FSPMs are particularly suited to analyse problems in which the spatial structure of the plant or its canopy is an essentia...
