Background Cotton crop is infested by numerous arthropod pests from sowing to harvesting,causing substantial direct and indirect yield losses.Knowledge of seasonal population trends and the relative occurrence of pest...Background Cotton crop is infested by numerous arthropod pests from sowing to harvesting,causing substantial direct and indirect yield losses.Knowledge of seasonal population trends and the relative occurrence of pests and their natural enemies is required to minimize the pest population and yield losses.In the current study,analysis of the seasonal population trend of pests and natural enemies and their relative occurrence on cultivars of three cotton species in Central India has been carried out.Results A higher number and diversity of sucking pests were observed during the vegetative cotton growth stage(60 days after sowing),declining as the crop matured.With the exception of cotton jassid(Amrasca biguttula biguttula Ishida),which caused significant crop damage mainly from August to September;populations of other sucking insects seldom reached economic threshold levels(ETL)throughout the studied period.The bollworm complex populations were minimal,except for the pink bollworm(Pectinophora gossypiella Saunders),which re-emerged as a menace to cotton crops during the cotton cropping season 2017–2018 due to resistance development against Bt-cotton.A reasonably good number of predatory arthropods,including coccinellids,lacewings,and spiders,were found actively preying on the arthropod pest complex of the cotton crop during the early vegetative growth stage.Linear regression indicates a significant relationship between green boll infestations and pink bollworm moths in pheromone traps.Multiple linear regression analyse showed mean weekly weather at one-or two-week lag periods had a significant impact on sucking pest population(cotton aphid,cotton jassid,cotton whitefly,and onion thrips)fluctuation.Gossypium hirsutum cultivars RCH 2 and DCH 32,and G.barbadense cultivar Suvin were found susceptible to cotton jassid and onion thrips.Phule Dhanvantary,an G.arboreum cotton cultivar,demonstrated the highest tolerance among all evaluated cultivars against all sucking pests.Conclusion These findings have important implications for pest management in cotton crops.Susceptible cultivars warrant more attention for plant protection measures,making them more input-intensive.The choice of appropriate cultivars can help minimize input costs,thereby increasing net returns for cotton farmers.展开更多
In addition to the negative consequences of climate change,sucking pest complexes severely limited cotton yields in the recent past.Although the damage caused by bollworms was much reduced by utilizing Bt cotton,the e...In addition to the negative consequences of climate change,sucking pest complexes severely limited cotton yields in the recent past.Although the damage caused by bollworms was much reduced by utilizing Bt cotton,the emergence of sucking pests(such as aphids,thrips,and whiteflies)poses a serious threat to cotton production,as they reduce lint yield by 40%–60%finally.Additionally,these pests also caused yield losses by spreading viral diseases.Promoting innovative and thorough control methods is necessary to counter the threat posed by these sucking pests.Such initiatives necessitate a multifaceted strategy that combines next-generation breeding technology and pest management techniques to produce novel cotton cultivars that are resistant to sucking pests.The discovery of novel genes and regulatory factors linked to cotton’s resistance to sucking pests will be possible by the combination of next-generation breeding technologies and omics approaches and employing those tools on special resistant donors.Continuous research aimed at understanding the genetic basis of insect resistance and improving integrated pest management(IPM)techniques is crucial to the sustainability and resilience of cotton cropping systems.To this end,a sustainable and viable strategy to protect cotton fields from sucking pests is outlined.展开更多
To address the challenges of low detection accuracy caused by the diverse species,significant size variations,and complex growth environments of wheat pests in natural settings,a PSA-YOLO11n algorithm is proposed to e...To address the challenges of low detection accuracy caused by the diverse species,significant size variations,and complex growth environments of wheat pests in natural settings,a PSA-YOLO11n algorithm is proposed to enhance detection precision.Building upon the YOLO11n framework,the proposed improvements include three key components:1)SimCSPSPPF in Backbone:An improved Spatial Pyramid Pooling-Fast(SPPF)module,SimCSPSPPF,is integrated into the Backbone to reduce the number of channels in the hidden layers,thereby accelerating model training.2)PEC in Neck:The standard convolution layers in the Neck are replaced with Perception Enhancement Convolutions(PEC)to improve multi-scale feature extraction capabilities,enhancing detection speed.3)AWIoU Loss Function:The regression loss function is replaced with Adequate Wise IoU(AWIoU),addressing issues of bounding box distortion caused by the diversity in pest species and size variations,thereby improving the precision of bounding box localization.Experimental evaluations on the IP102 dataset demonstrate that PSA-YOLO11n achieves a mean Average Precision(mAP)of 89.10%,surpassing YOLO11n by 0.8%.Comparisons with other mainstream algorithms,including Faster R-CNN,RetinaNet,YOLOv5s,YOLOv8n,YOLOv10n,and YOLO11n,confirm that PSA-YOLO11n outperforms all baselines in terms of detection performance.These results highlight the algorithm’s capability to significantly improve the detection accuracy of multi-scale wheat pests in natural environments,providing an effective solution for pest management in wheat production.展开更多
This research is to control the pests inside fruits and buds by injecting pesticides into the tree with the high-pressure injector. The soluable pesticides injected into the trunk can transported insides to every part...This research is to control the pests inside fruits and buds by injecting pesticides into the tree with the high-pressure injector. The soluable pesticides injected into the trunk can transported insides to every part of the tree to kill pests. The change of pesticides inside the tree was observed. The result showed that injecting pesticides once a year could kill above 80% of the pests which happened once annually. The effect of injection lasts longer than that of applying the pesticide outside. The pesticides injected into the tree are not affected by environment and do not kill natural enemies directly,and the residual amount of pesticides is below the international standard level.展开更多
Greenhouse horticultural production currently represents an important and growing sector of Canada's food and plant production systems. Since 2006,the value of greenhouse vegetable crops in Canada exceeds that of ...Greenhouse horticultural production currently represents an important and growing sector of Canada's food and plant production systems. Since 2006,the value of greenhouse vegetable crops in Canada exceeds that of field grown crops,signaling an important shift in the way food is cultivated in the country. While many factors have contributed to this change,a major area of innovation includes the discoveries and advances made in the development of commercial greenhouse production systems as well as the integration of biological control strategies for sustainable pest management. With this focus,this review offers a brief overview of the Canadian greenhouse industry,including a descriptive list of commonly used biological control organisms,as well as the role Canadian research has played in the development of these agents. We also address the threats that Canadian greenhouse producers face by invasive pests and the complications these have created for the commercialization of novel biological control agents. This information may serve as a guide for the development of parallel technologies and tools in other parts of the world where greenhouse production is expanding.展开更多
基金Funding support for the Crop Pest Surveillance and Advisory Project(CROPSAP)。
文摘Background Cotton crop is infested by numerous arthropod pests from sowing to harvesting,causing substantial direct and indirect yield losses.Knowledge of seasonal population trends and the relative occurrence of pests and their natural enemies is required to minimize the pest population and yield losses.In the current study,analysis of the seasonal population trend of pests and natural enemies and their relative occurrence on cultivars of three cotton species in Central India has been carried out.Results A higher number and diversity of sucking pests were observed during the vegetative cotton growth stage(60 days after sowing),declining as the crop matured.With the exception of cotton jassid(Amrasca biguttula biguttula Ishida),which caused significant crop damage mainly from August to September;populations of other sucking insects seldom reached economic threshold levels(ETL)throughout the studied period.The bollworm complex populations were minimal,except for the pink bollworm(Pectinophora gossypiella Saunders),which re-emerged as a menace to cotton crops during the cotton cropping season 2017–2018 due to resistance development against Bt-cotton.A reasonably good number of predatory arthropods,including coccinellids,lacewings,and spiders,were found actively preying on the arthropod pest complex of the cotton crop during the early vegetative growth stage.Linear regression indicates a significant relationship between green boll infestations and pink bollworm moths in pheromone traps.Multiple linear regression analyse showed mean weekly weather at one-or two-week lag periods had a significant impact on sucking pest population(cotton aphid,cotton jassid,cotton whitefly,and onion thrips)fluctuation.Gossypium hirsutum cultivars RCH 2 and DCH 32,and G.barbadense cultivar Suvin were found susceptible to cotton jassid and onion thrips.Phule Dhanvantary,an G.arboreum cotton cultivar,demonstrated the highest tolerance among all evaluated cultivars against all sucking pests.Conclusion These findings have important implications for pest management in cotton crops.Susceptible cultivars warrant more attention for plant protection measures,making them more input-intensive.The choice of appropriate cultivars can help minimize input costs,thereby increasing net returns for cotton farmers.
基金M/s.RASI Seeds Pvt.Ltd.,Attur,Tamil Nadu,India for their generous financial assistance in setting up a MAS study in cotton for genetic improvement of sucking pest resistance.
文摘In addition to the negative consequences of climate change,sucking pest complexes severely limited cotton yields in the recent past.Although the damage caused by bollworms was much reduced by utilizing Bt cotton,the emergence of sucking pests(such as aphids,thrips,and whiteflies)poses a serious threat to cotton production,as they reduce lint yield by 40%–60%finally.Additionally,these pests also caused yield losses by spreading viral diseases.Promoting innovative and thorough control methods is necessary to counter the threat posed by these sucking pests.Such initiatives necessitate a multifaceted strategy that combines next-generation breeding technology and pest management techniques to produce novel cotton cultivars that are resistant to sucking pests.The discovery of novel genes and regulatory factors linked to cotton’s resistance to sucking pests will be possible by the combination of next-generation breeding technologies and omics approaches and employing those tools on special resistant donors.Continuous research aimed at understanding the genetic basis of insect resistance and improving integrated pest management(IPM)techniques is crucial to the sustainability and resilience of cotton cropping systems.To this end,a sustainable and viable strategy to protect cotton fields from sucking pests is outlined.
文摘To address the challenges of low detection accuracy caused by the diverse species,significant size variations,and complex growth environments of wheat pests in natural settings,a PSA-YOLO11n algorithm is proposed to enhance detection precision.Building upon the YOLO11n framework,the proposed improvements include three key components:1)SimCSPSPPF in Backbone:An improved Spatial Pyramid Pooling-Fast(SPPF)module,SimCSPSPPF,is integrated into the Backbone to reduce the number of channels in the hidden layers,thereby accelerating model training.2)PEC in Neck:The standard convolution layers in the Neck are replaced with Perception Enhancement Convolutions(PEC)to improve multi-scale feature extraction capabilities,enhancing detection speed.3)AWIoU Loss Function:The regression loss function is replaced with Adequate Wise IoU(AWIoU),addressing issues of bounding box distortion caused by the diversity in pest species and size variations,thereby improving the precision of bounding box localization.Experimental evaluations on the IP102 dataset demonstrate that PSA-YOLO11n achieves a mean Average Precision(mAP)of 89.10%,surpassing YOLO11n by 0.8%.Comparisons with other mainstream algorithms,including Faster R-CNN,RetinaNet,YOLOv5s,YOLOv8n,YOLOv10n,and YOLO11n,confirm that PSA-YOLO11n outperforms all baselines in terms of detection performance.These results highlight the algorithm’s capability to significantly improve the detection accuracy of multi-scale wheat pests in natural environments,providing an effective solution for pest management in wheat production.
文摘This research is to control the pests inside fruits and buds by injecting pesticides into the tree with the high-pressure injector. The soluable pesticides injected into the trunk can transported insides to every part of the tree to kill pests. The change of pesticides inside the tree was observed. The result showed that injecting pesticides once a year could kill above 80% of the pests which happened once annually. The effect of injection lasts longer than that of applying the pesticide outside. The pesticides injected into the tree are not affected by environment and do not kill natural enemies directly,and the residual amount of pesticides is below the international standard level.
文摘Greenhouse horticultural production currently represents an important and growing sector of Canada's food and plant production systems. Since 2006,the value of greenhouse vegetable crops in Canada exceeds that of field grown crops,signaling an important shift in the way food is cultivated in the country. While many factors have contributed to this change,a major area of innovation includes the discoveries and advances made in the development of commercial greenhouse production systems as well as the integration of biological control strategies for sustainable pest management. With this focus,this review offers a brief overview of the Canadian greenhouse industry,including a descriptive list of commonly used biological control organisms,as well as the role Canadian research has played in the development of these agents. We also address the threats that Canadian greenhouse producers face by invasive pests and the complications these have created for the commercialization of novel biological control agents. This information may serve as a guide for the development of parallel technologies and tools in other parts of the world where greenhouse production is expanding.
