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BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND THERMAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE BIRD CHERRY-OAT APHID, Rhopalosiphum padi (LINNAEUS), REARED ON WHEAT SEEDLINGS

A. Shehawy, Abeer Mohammad, Monira El-Fatih • Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology (2015)

The bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi (Linnaeus) was studied at 15, 20 and 25oC constant temperatures. Wheat seedlings were offered for feeding and maintaining the aphid, R. padi using the Punctured Ependorf Tube Technique. R. padi ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21608/jppp.2015.75784

Ecological, Biological and Control Studies on the Leaf Coating and Webbing Mite Cisaberoptus kenyae Keifer (Eriophyoidea: Eriophyidae) in Egypt

B. Abou-Awad, A. Metwally, M. Al–Azzazy • Acarines: Journal of the Egyptian Society of Acarology (2009)

The leaf coating and webbing mite Cisaberoptus kenyae Keifer was observed for two years in an abandoned mangoorchard in Egypt. The eriophyid mite was fed upon by the two predatory phytoseiid mites Typhlodromips swirskii(Athias-Henriot) and ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21608/ajesa.2009.4968

Enhanced Degradation of Juvenile Hormone Promotes Reproductive Diapause in the Predatory Ladybeetle Coccinella Septempunctata

Yu-Yan Li, Jun-Jie Chen, Meng-Yao Liu, Wei-Wei He et al. • Frontiers in Physiology (2022)

Improved knowledge on the regulation of reproductive diapause in Coccinella septempunctata, an important predator of aphids, is crucial for improving shelf-life and mass production of the ladybeetles. In many insects, the absence of juvenil...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.877153

CCR4, a RNA decay factor, is hijacked by a plant cytorhabdovirus phosphoprotein to facilitate virus replication

Zhen-Jia Zhang, Qiang Gao, Xiao-Dong Fang, Zhi-Hang Ding et al. • eLife (2020)

Carbon catabolite repression 4 (CCR4) is a conserved mRNA deadenylase regulating posttranscriptional gene expression. However, regulation of CCR4 in virus infections is less understood. Here, we characterized a pro-viral role of CCR4 in rep...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7554/eLife.53753

Long-term fertilization enriches soil food web mainly through bottom-up regulation in a rice–wheat cropping system

Yunfeng Chen, Cheng Hu, Yufei Li, Xuemei Han et al. • Journal of Integrative Agriculture (2026)

Long-term fertilization shapes the size and community composition of the soil food web by altering resource quantity and quality. Previous studies have examined specific components; however, comprehensive effects on the entire food web and ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.jia.2025.11.039

Uncovering Cercospora species affecting sugar beet in Iran with rapid and accurate detection of C. beticola using LAMP assay

Mounes Bakhshi, Mona Ghasemi, Mohammad-Ali Tajick Ghanbary, Kaivan Karimi et al. • Scientific Reports (2025)

Abstract Cercospora leaf spot (CLS) is a major disease impacting global sugar beet cultivation and yield. This study investigated the potential diversity of Cercospora species causing CLS in Iranian sugar beet. Fungal isolates were characte...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-21274-1

Mikania micrantha genome provides insights into the molecular mechanism of rapid growth

Bo Liu, Jian Yan, Weihua Li, Lijuan Yin et al. • Nature Communications (2020)

Mikania micrantha is an extremely fast-growing invasive plant species that can cause serious damage to natural ecosystems. Here, the authors assemble its chromosome-scale reference genome and explore possible mechanisms that contribute to i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13926-4

Morphological and molecular identification of arrhenotokous strain of Diglyphus wani (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) found in China as a control agent against agromyzid leafminers

Su-Jie Du, Zoya Yefremova, Fu-Yu Ye, Chao-Dong Zhu et al. • ZooKeys (2021)

Diglyphus species are ecologically and economically important on agromyzid leafminers. In 2018, a thelytokous species, Diglyphus wani Liu, Zhu & Yefremova, was firstly reported and described. Subsequently, the arrhenotokous D. wani ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1071.72433

Role of hypothetical protein PA1-LRP in antibacterial activity of endolysin from a new Pantoea phage PA1

Ye Tian, Xinyan Xu, Munazza Ijaz, Ying Shen et al. • Frontiers in Microbiology (2024)

IntroductionPantoea ananatis has emerged as a significant plant pathogen affecting various crops worldwide, causing substantial economic losses. Bacteriophages and their endolysins offer promising alternatives for controlling bacterial infe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1463192

Fine mapping of QYrsv.swust-1BL for resistance to stripe rust in durum wheat Svevo

Xinli Zhou, Guoyun Jia, Yuqi Luo, Xin Li et al. • Frontiers in Plant Science (2024)

Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is a serious disease that affects wheat worldwide. There is a great need to develop cultivars with combinations of all-stage resistance (ASR) and adult-plant resistance (APR)...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1395223

Storage Properties of Double-Layer Films Enriched with <i>Phytolacca americana</i> L. Extract as Active Packaging for African Catfish, with a New Approach to Antioxidant Film Assay and Additional Analysis of <i>P. americana</i> Extract Toxicity on Human Cell Lines

Joanna Maria Jasińska, Klaudia Michalska, Joanna Tkaczewska, Katarzyna Tkacz et al. • Molecules (2025)

Novel double-layer films based on furcellaran (FUR) and gelatin (GEL) with the addition of Phytolacca americana L. (PA) extract were used as active packaging for African catfish fillets. Films with PA extract have been shown to minimize the...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/molecules30071447

Research Progress of Citrus Melanose

Feng HUANG, Aitian PENG, Xiaobing SONG, Yiping CUI et al. • Guangdong nongye kexue (2024)

Citrus melanose consists of a series of plant diseases caused by the fungal species of the genus Diaporthe. It has been reported with over 30 Diaporthe species on citrus, including several important fungal pathogens, endophytes, saprophytes...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.16768/j.issn.1004-874X.2024.06.003

DIAGNOSTICS OF RUSTS AND SPOTTS OF WHEAT USING COMPUTER VISION METHODS

Irina V. Arinicheva, Igor V. Arinichev, Galina V. Volkova, Sergey V. Polyanskikh • Siberian Journal of Life Sciences and Agriculture (2022)

Purpose. To investigate the possibility of diagnosing yellow and brown rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici West. Puccinia triticina f. sp. tritici Erikss), yellow spot (Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (Died.) Drechsler) on wheat leaves f...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.12731/2658-6649-2022-14-1-248-261

Aphid-ResNetSwin: An Image Recognition Method with Improved Attention Mechanism for Graded Identification of <i>Myzus persicae</i>

Jinzhou Luo, Jiazhao Sun, Xiaoli Hao, Heng Liu et al. • Insects (2026)

Myzus persicae is the most devastating piercing-sucking pest threatening tobacco production. Precise quantification of infestation severity is a prerequisite for precision pest management, making the integration of visual image analysis hig...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/insects17030305

Enhancing host-pathogen phenotyping dynamics: early detection of tomato bacterial diseases using hyperspectral point measurement and predictive modeling

Mafalda Reis Pereira, Mafalda Reis Pereira, Filipe Neves dos Santos, Fernando Tavares et al. • Frontiers in Plant Science (2023)

Early diagnosis of plant diseases is needed to promote sustainable plant protection strategies. Applied predictive modeling over hyperspectral spectroscopy (HS) data can be an effective, fast, cost-effective approach for improving plant dis...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1242201