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Research Project:
Biological Control of Exotic and Invasive Pests
Location:
Beneficial Insects Research
Project Number: 6204-22000-016-00
Project Type:
Appropriated
Start Date: Apr 09, 2003
End Date: Aug 31, 2005
Objective:
1) Develop classical biological control approaches for arthropod pests food and fiber crops with emphasis on established pests. 2) Determine exotic arthropod crop pests that are potential threats to agriculture via entry through Mexico and Central America, and initiate onsite management programs in collaboration with foreign scientists. 3) Conduct and evaluate biological control-based management of aquatic and terrestrial weeds.
Approach:
Exotic egg parasitoids will be collected from related sharpshooters that are pre-adapted to California's subclimate types and WILL successfully attack glassy-winged sharpshooter eggs. Imported parasitoids will be new species and indistinguishable from native parasitoids, but molecular-based dignostics will be developed to distinguish them as well as identify possible species complexes among native parasitoids. Semiochemicals involved in communication between and among plants, sharpshooters and parasitoids, will be identified and manipulated to enhance biological control of the glassy-winged sharpshooter.
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