WHITEFLY BIOCONTROL · METAPOPULATION DYNAMICS OF WHITEFLIES AND THEIR PHYTOSEIID PREDATORS: IMPLEMENTING A NEW BIOLOGICAL CONTROL SYSTEM
6РП — Действия „Мария Кюри“
- Период
- 2004-05-01 → 2006-04-30
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 137 581 €
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- 1
- Схема
- EIF
Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите. За проекти отпреди 2014 г. CORDIS не винаги дава точни координати. Тези точки са на ниво град или държава.
Накратко на български
Хищните клещи Typhodromips swirskii се изследват като средство за контрол на бели мушици, като се тества добавянето на цветови прашец за повишаване на броя им. Това помага за намаляване на вредителите в земеделието и ограничаване на употребата на химически пестициди.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Цел на проекта
Biological control is one of the most important alternatives to chemical crop protection and has become increasingly significant, as the European Union aims at reducing the use of pesticides according to the Sixth Environmental Action Plan. One pest that can as yet not be controlled sufficiently with the current crop protection methods is the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) and it has rapidly developed into a serious pest in Europe due to its polyphagy and its high level of resistance to the currently used insecticides. Predatory mites (Family Phytoseiidae) have a long history of success in biocontrol of herbivorous mites, thrips and other insects and they are known as predators of whiteflies but they have never been used to control this pest. In previous research several phytoseiids predators of whiteflies were evaluated in the laboratory as well as in small-scale greenhouse experiments and a suitable candidate for biological control agent for whiteflies was found, the phytoseiid species Typhodromips swirskii.This generalist predator feeds also on pollen and reproduces on this diet, yet it prefers whiteflies as prey. Adding pollen to plants as alternative food for the predators resulted in more than 70% higher numbers of predators, compared to plants that did not receive pollen. Moreover, whitefly populations were reduced by more than 90% compared to plants without predators and thus the presence of pollen on plants had a positive effect on whitefly control. The current proposal presents the first attempt to bridge the gap between the applied research that has been done so far on whiteflies and their phytoseiid predators at the scale of a few plants and the actual implementation of this new biological control system at the scale of a commercial crop in the greenhouse.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- INSTITUT DE RECERCA I TECNOLOGIA AGROALIMENTÃ RIES · BARCELONAКоординаторНиво градИспания
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