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Habitat Fragmentation and Insect Biodiversity Change in Mexican Landscapes
The long-term and large-scale cause of habitat fragmentation and loss is determined by human intervention, primarily due to the expansion of...
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Host Plant Resistance to Insect Pests in Wheat
Host plant resistance offers an excellent solution to pest problems, which reduces pesticide usage and environmental pollution. Host plant resistance...
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Insect pollinator and natural enemy communities in green roof and ground-level urban habitats
Urban greenspaces, including green roofs and ground-level urban habitats provide habitat for insect communities in cities. However, beneficial insect...
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Diversity of transgenes in sustainable management of insect pests
Insecticidal transgenes, when incorporated and expressed in plants, confer resistance against insects by producing several products having...
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Long-term data in agricultural landscapes indicate that insect decline promotes pests well adapted to environmental changes
Increasing evidence suggests that land-use intensification contributes to destabilization of trophic networks of insect communities in agriculture...
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Exploring potential relationships between acoustic indices and ecosystem functions: a test on insect herbivory
Biodiversity loss is a global concern. Current technological advances allow the development of novel tools that can monitor biodiversity remotely...
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Egg Biology of Insect Predators
Life begins as an autonomous egg in the majority of insects. Ovarian reproduction is the term for this process. Each egg is created within the...
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Viral Infection Induces Changes to the Metabolome, Immune Response and Development of a Generalist Insect Herbivore
Host plant consumption and pathogen infection commonly influence insect traits related to development and immunity, which are ultimately reflected in...
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Polyphenol contents in amaranth cultivars and their relationship with insect feeding deterrence
The role of secondary metabolites (SMs) in Amaranthus plant defense is a poorly studied field. Different cultivars of amaranth have shown varying...
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Challenging the Preference–Performance Hypothesis in an above-belowground insect
The relationship between female oviposition preference and offspring performance has been a question of special interest in the study of host plant...
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Effects of plant leaf traits, abundance and phylogeny on differentiation of herbivorous insect assemblages in Mediterranean mixed forest
Herbivorous insect assemblages are functionally diverse, with each species exploiting plant tissues in different ways. Availability and palatability...
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Prospects of rearing selected southern African swarming insects for animal feed: a review on insect farming and the economic value of edible insects
The potential of insects as animal feed is currently under doubtful spotlight due to the limited number of reared insect species and fewer farm or...
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Molecular and genetic insights into secondary metabolic regulation underlying insect-pest resistance in legumes
Insect pests pose a major threat to agricultural production, resulting in significant economic losses for countries. A high infestation of insects in...
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Biological control of Spodoptera frugiperda (Nixon) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in new invaded countries using insect pathogens
BackgroundThe fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Nixon) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is the major insect pest that infests cereal crops...
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Essential Oils against the Bio-Deteriorating Insect Pests of Stored Food Commodities
Plant-based essential oils (EOs) are emerging as promising alternatives to chemical insecticides worldwide against stored food insect pests. EOs are...
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Eggsplorer: a rapid plant–insect resistance determination tool using an automated whitefly egg quantification algorithm
BackgroundA well-known method for evaluating plant resistance to insects is by measuring insect reproduction or oviposition. Whiteflies are vectors...
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Insectivorous bats in Indian rice fields respond to moonlight, temperature, and insect activity
ContextRice, India’s most widely grown crop, suffers substantial and increasing yield loss to insect pests. Insectivorous bats are known suppressors...
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Endophytic insect pathogenic fungi-host plant-herbivore mutualism: elucidating the mechanisms involved in the tripartite interactions
Various techniques used by crop plants to evade insect pests and pathogen attacks have been documented. Among these, plant defense strategies induced...
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Ecofriendly Management of Insect Pests for Sustainable Agriculture
The sustainability in food security is the prime objective of modern world as humans are facing severe challenges of poverty and hunger at global...
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AANAT1 regulates insect midgut detoxification through the ROS/CncC pathway
Insecticide resistance has been a problem in both the agricultural pests and vectors. Revealing the detoxification mechanisms may help to better...
