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Testing banker plants for biological control of mites on roses

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We tested whether plant species used in a banker plant system influence the success of a biological control program with predatory mites. Banker plants (BP) may sustain a reproducing population of predators and provide long-term pest suppression. In an experiment lasting 12 weeks, we analyzed the responses of the predatory mite Amblyseius californicus and the pest mite Tetranychus urticae to eight species of potential BP with different morphological structures. Every BP was paired with a rose plant and infested with pest and predatory mites. The measured parameters were vitality and growth of the plants and numbers of predators, pests and their eggs. Reproduction and establishment of the pest and predatory mites differed among plant species as well as plant growth and vitality. Vitis riparia and Viburnum tinus were the most efficient BP in this combination of pest–predator species. Their presence resulted in best health of the rose crops, highest number of predatory mites and lowest number of pests. Both these BP possess domatia which may be responsible for the efficiency in hosting predatory mites. Overall, the species which fulfilled the requirements of a BP best was the local shrub V, tinus, which bore no pests and a very large number of predators and has a compact growth form suited for application in greenhouses. Although our study gives only evidence for an artificial system with a high BP:crop ratio, high numbers of introduced predators and short distances between plants, this study contributes to knowledge of BP systems and to improve the understanding of the criteria for the choice of local plant species to be used as BP for biological control in IPM.

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This work was supported by a Post-Doc grant from the Department of Plant Health and Environment of INRA, for which we are grateful. Two anonymous reviewers and the subject editor made valuable comments and corrections on an earlier version of the manuscript.

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    Pia Parolin, Cécile Bresch, Gauthier Ruiz, Nicolas Desneux & Christine Poncet

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Parolin, P., Bresch, C., Ruiz, G. et al. Testing banker plants for biological control of mites on roses. Phytoparasitica 41, 249–262 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12600-012-0285-6

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