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A new method of gall mite management: application of artificial defoliation to control Aceria pallida
Artificial defoliant is widely applied to cotton to facilitate mechanical harvesting and successfully controls leaf diseases by blocking pathogen epidemical cycles; however, this technique is rarely used to control herbivores. Because many eriophyoid mites live and reproduce in galls, the control of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6404653/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30863674 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6503 |
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author | Li, Jianling Liu, Sai Guo, Kun Qiao, Haili Xu, Rong Xu, Changqing Chen, Jun |
author_facet | Li, Jianling Liu, Sai Guo, Kun Qiao, Haili Xu, Rong Xu, Changqing Chen, Jun |
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description | Artificial defoliant is widely applied to cotton to facilitate mechanical harvesting and successfully controls leaf diseases by blocking pathogen epidemical cycles; however, this technique is rarely used to control herbivores. Because many eriophyoid mites live and reproduce in galls, the control of these mites by pesticides is usually limited. However, the abscission of galled foliage is lethal to tiny mites with low mobility. Therefore, artificial defoliation should be effective in controlling gall mites. Here, the effects of defoliant on the control of the goji berry Lycium barbarum L. gall mite Aceria pallida Keifer were compared with those of pesticides under field conditions over 3 years. Our results showed that artificial defoliation enabled almost complete defoliation and timely refoliation. A. pallida galls fell off with the defoliation, and then regenerated foliage escaped from mite attack. After defoliant application, the densities of mite galls decreased by 84.1%, 80.3% and 80.3% compared with those found in the pesticide (undefoliated) treatment in 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. Artificial defoliation achieved much better control of gall mites than pesticides. |
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spelling | pubmed-64046532019-03-12 A new method of gall mite management: application of artificial defoliation to control Aceria pallida Li, Jianling Liu, Sai Guo, Kun Qiao, Haili Xu, Rong Xu, Changqing Chen, Jun PeerJ Agricultural Science Artificial defoliant is widely applied to cotton to facilitate mechanical harvesting and successfully controls leaf diseases by blocking pathogen epidemical cycles; however, this technique is rarely used to control herbivores. Because many eriophyoid mites live and reproduce in galls, the control of these mites by pesticides is usually limited. However, the abscission of galled foliage is lethal to tiny mites with low mobility. Therefore, artificial defoliation should be effective in controlling gall mites. Here, the effects of defoliant on the control of the goji berry Lycium barbarum L. gall mite Aceria pallida Keifer were compared with those of pesticides under field conditions over 3 years. Our results showed that artificial defoliation enabled almost complete defoliation and timely refoliation. A. pallida galls fell off with the defoliation, and then regenerated foliage escaped from mite attack. After defoliant application, the densities of mite galls decreased by 84.1%, 80.3% and 80.3% compared with those found in the pesticide (undefoliated) treatment in 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. Artificial defoliation achieved much better control of gall mites than pesticides. PeerJ Inc. 2019-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6404653/ /pubmed/30863674 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6503 Text en ©2019 Li et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Agricultural Science Li, Jianling Liu, Sai Guo, Kun Qiao, Haili Xu, Rong Xu, Changqing Chen, Jun A new method of gall mite management: application of artificial defoliation to control Aceria pallida |
title | A new method of gall mite management: application of artificial defoliation to control Aceria pallida |
title_full | A new method of gall mite management: application of artificial defoliation to control Aceria pallida |
title_fullStr | A new method of gall mite management: application of artificial defoliation to control Aceria pallida |
title_full_unstemmed | A new method of gall mite management: application of artificial defoliation to control Aceria pallida |
title_short | A new method of gall mite management: application of artificial defoliation to control Aceria pallida |
title_sort | new method of gall mite management: application of artificial defoliation to control aceria pallida |
topic | Agricultural Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6404653/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30863674 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6503 |
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