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This collection features three peer-reviewed reviews on managing
arthropod pests in cereals. The first chapter discusses key
arthropod pests of cereals, including Hessian fly, orange wheat
blossom midge, bird cherry oat aphid, greenbug, Russian wheat
aphid, sunn pest, wheat stem sawfly and wheat curl mite. The
chapter provides a detailed case study for each arthropod pest,
exploring the pest's life cycle, its host plants and status as a
wheat pest, best practices for managing populations, as well as our
current understanding of plant susceptibility and plant resistance.
The second chapter highlights the economic importance of corn/maize
to the United States economy, citing that around 37.7 million
hectares of land was used to grow the crop in 2021. As a result of
its economic contribution, farmers are required to have an informed
understanding of important pest species affecting the crop. The
chapter considers recent advances in monitoring of native and
invasive pests of corn and includes case studies on the European
corn borer, corn earworm, western bean cutworm and corn rootworm to
demonstrate the effective implementation of insect pest monitoring
systems. The final chapter reviews the recent emergence of the
Fescue aphid/grass aphid as an invasive pest of small grains
outside of its native range of western Europe and the British
Isles. The chapter considers the biology and management of the
pest, its appearance and identification, its pest status and
damage, as well as its potential for host plant resistance.
This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on
nematode pests in agriculture. The first chapter assesses the value
and impact of using integrated pest management (IPM) to combat
nematode pests. It summarises the basic biology and morphology of
the most economically-important nematode pests and reviews
cultural, biological and chemical methods of control. The second
chapter discusses advances in understanding plant root response to
nematode attack. It highlights how nematodes form feeding
structures in host roots and how this behaviour has allowed plants
to evolve new mechanisms of resistance that target this structure
with a toxic response. The third chapter discusses key nematode
pests of wheat, including cereal cyst, root-knot and root-lesion
nematodes. It features research on best practice in detecting and
managing these pests effectively. The fourth chapter summarises
what we know about soil and plant nematodes damaging maize,
including lesion, root-knot and vermiform nematodes. It reviews
research on characteristics, identification and effects which
provide the foundation for effective control. The final chapter
describes the characteristics and control of key nematode pests of
potatoes: potato cyst nematodes, root knot nematodes, root lesion
nematode, potato rot and stem nematodes as well as virus vector
nematodes.
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