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JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE
Volume 90, Issue 2, Pages 447-457Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10340-016-0790-3
Keywords
Landscape ecology; Crop colonization; Rhopalosiphum padi; Isotopic analyses; Barley yellow dwarf virus
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- Bayer CropScience France
- C.I.F.R.E. grant from the Association Nationale de la Recherche Technique
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Ecological control has often focused on factors enhancing control of pests by their natural enemies, while factors reducing the colonization rate of crops by pests have been comparatively neglected. We present an approach to assess landscape influence on the intensity of wheat colonization by a major crop pest, the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi. We used trays containing wheat seedlings to monitor field colonization by R. padi and barley yellow dwarf viruses' transmission in two areas in France in autumn. We assessed the influence of landscape components likely affecting aphid colonization, i.e. maize and grasslands as source of migrants on the number of aphids landing per tray, as well as the host plant of origin and the viruliferous potential of migrants. During the survey, maize was the main source of migrants. Virus transmission was detected in a few cases (4 % positive assays). Colonization was increased by the presence of maize, but reduced by the presence of grasslands at the landscape scale considered here (i.e. at a radius of 1000 m). Our study contributes to a better understanding of disease dynamics in agricultural landscapes. By identifying features of the landscape that surrounds fields and affects these dynamics, growers can develop more efficient crop protection strategies relying on habitat manipulation and rational use of pesticides.
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