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Biological Control beneath the Feet: A Review of Crop Protection against Insect Root Herbivores
Sustainable agriculture is certainly one of the most important challenges at present, considering both human population demography and evidence showing that crop productivity based on chemical control is plateauing. While the environmental and health threats of conventional agriculture are increasin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5198218/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27916820 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects7040070 |
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author | Kergunteuil, Alan Bakhtiari, Moe Formenti, Ludovico Xiao, Zhenggao Defossez, Emmanuel Rasmann, Sergio |
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description | Sustainable agriculture is certainly one of the most important challenges at present, considering both human population demography and evidence showing that crop productivity based on chemical control is plateauing. While the environmental and health threats of conventional agriculture are increasing, ecological research is offering promising solutions for crop protection against herbivore pests. While most research has focused on aboveground systems, several major crop pests are uniquely feeding on roots. We here aim at documenting the current and potential use of several biological control agents, including micro-organisms (viruses, bacteria, fungi, and nematodes) and invertebrates included among the macrofauna of soils (arthropods and annelids) that are used against root herbivores. In addition, we discuss the synergistic action of different bio-control agents when co-inoculated in soil and how the induction and priming of plant chemical defense could be synergized with the use of the bio-control agents described above to optimize root pest control. Finally, we highlight the gaps in the research for optimizing a more sustainable management of root pests. |
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spelling | pubmed-51982182017-01-04 Biological Control beneath the Feet: A Review of Crop Protection against Insect Root Herbivores Kergunteuil, Alan Bakhtiari, Moe Formenti, Ludovico Xiao, Zhenggao Defossez, Emmanuel Rasmann, Sergio Insects Review Sustainable agriculture is certainly one of the most important challenges at present, considering both human population demography and evidence showing that crop productivity based on chemical control is plateauing. While the environmental and health threats of conventional agriculture are increasing, ecological research is offering promising solutions for crop protection against herbivore pests. While most research has focused on aboveground systems, several major crop pests are uniquely feeding on roots. We here aim at documenting the current and potential use of several biological control agents, including micro-organisms (viruses, bacteria, fungi, and nematodes) and invertebrates included among the macrofauna of soils (arthropods and annelids) that are used against root herbivores. In addition, we discuss the synergistic action of different bio-control agents when co-inoculated in soil and how the induction and priming of plant chemical defense could be synergized with the use of the bio-control agents described above to optimize root pest control. Finally, we highlight the gaps in the research for optimizing a more sustainable management of root pests. MDPI 2016-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5198218/ /pubmed/27916820 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects7040070 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Kergunteuil, Alan Bakhtiari, Moe Formenti, Ludovico Xiao, Zhenggao Defossez, Emmanuel Rasmann, Sergio Biological Control beneath the Feet: A Review of Crop Protection against Insect Root Herbivores |
title | Biological Control beneath the Feet: A Review of Crop Protection against Insect Root Herbivores |
title_full | Biological Control beneath the Feet: A Review of Crop Protection against Insect Root Herbivores |
title_fullStr | Biological Control beneath the Feet: A Review of Crop Protection against Insect Root Herbivores |
title_full_unstemmed | Biological Control beneath the Feet: A Review of Crop Protection against Insect Root Herbivores |
title_short | Biological Control beneath the Feet: A Review of Crop Protection against Insect Root Herbivores |
title_sort | biological control beneath the feet: a review of crop protection against insect root herbivores |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5198218/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27916820 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects7040070 |
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