Secondary plants used in biological control: A review

Parolin, Pia; Bresch, Cécile; Desneux, Nicolas; Brun, Richard; Bout, Alexandre; Boll, Roger; Poncet, C.

doi:10.1080/09670874.2012.659229

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“…However, modern greenhouse crops are often monocultures in highly specialised production units where not only crop cultivation, but also harvest and packaging techniques are specialised. Greenhouse crops are not mixed specifically with the aim to enhance pest control, but plant diversity can be applied on a smaller scale with banker plants, trap plants or companion plants (Huang et al 2011;Parolin et al 2012;Xu et al 2012). Even the application of such plants remains limited, because they require separate care.…”

Section: Vegetation Diversitymentioning

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Approaches to conserving natural enemy populations in greenhouse crops: current methods and future prospects

Messelink¹,

Bennison

Alomar³

et al. 2014

BioControl

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Biological pest control in greenhouse crops is usually based on periodical releases of mass-produced natural enemies, and this method has been successfully applied for decades. However, in some cases there are shortcomings in pest control efficacy, which often can be attributed to the poor establishment of natural enemies. Their establishment and population numbers can be enhanced by providing additional resources, such as alternative food, prey, hosts, oviposition sites or shelters. Furthermore, natural enemy efficacy can be enhanced by using volatiles, adapting the greenhouse climate, avoiding pesticide side-effects and minimizing disrupting food web complexities. The special case of high value crops in a protected greenhouse environment offers tremendous opportunities to design and manage the system in ways that increase crop resilience to pest infestations. While we have outlined opportunities and tools to develop such systems, this review also identifies knowledge gaps, where additional research is needed to optimize these tools.

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Section: Vegetation Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Approaches to conserving natural enemy populations in greenhouse crops: current methods and future prospects

Messelink¹,

Bennison

Alomar³

et al. 2014

BioControl

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“…;Parolin et al, 2012a), as is the case with eggplants: they act as indicator plants, trap crops (they are more attractive to white fl y than Poinsettia) and as a 'nursery' for biological control agents. Species like these which display many traits might be especially interesting because the species can be applied on multi-purpose levels.…”

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“…In the strict sense of the term we can defi ne only trap plants and banker plants as "biocontrol plants" which provide an environment which is favorable for biocontrol agents such as predator arthropods. Indeed, indicator, companion, or repellent plants do not interact with biocontrol animals but, nevertheless, can act as biocontrol plants in a crop system (Parolin et al, 2012a).…”

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“…This arrangement can result in secondary plants having positive effects on the productivity of crop plants and enhancing the effectiveness of biological pest management (Parolin et al, 2012a, b). Only recently have clear defi nitions and delimitations of terms regarding additional plants been reviewed and the synonyms organized (Parolin et al, 2012a).…”

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Introducing the term 'Biocontrol Plants' for integrated pest management

Bresch

Poncet

Desneux

2014

Sci. agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.)

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Studies of interactions between crops, additional plants, pests and benefi cial organisms already exist as well as studies of natural enemy preference, dispersal, and abundance.However, these studies focus on tri-trophic interactions from an "arthropod" point of view. We think that in order to optimize crop protection methods we need to understand the effects that plant structures have on the various arthropods and on subsequent tri-trophic interactions.Although studies and reviews describing the role of secondary plants in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) exist, to date a general term which encompasses all plants added to a cropping system with the aim of enhancing IPM strategies has yet to be formulated. Therefore, we suggest a new term, "biocontrol plants", which we defi ne as plants that are intentionally added to a crop system with the aim of enhancing crop productivity through pest attraction and/or pest regulation; a term that will promote the use of biocontrol services, and can ultimately lead to an increase in the sustainability of cropping systems.

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“…An insectary plant is 'a flowering plant which attracts and possibly maintain s, with its nectar and pollen resource s, a population of natural enemies which contribute to biological pest management on crops' (Parolin et al, 2012 ). Habitat management with insectary plants is a form of conservation biological control that can make highly disturbed agroecosystem s for annual crops more favorable environments for natural enemies of agricultural pests (Jonsson et al, 2008;Landis et al, 2000 ).…”

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Agronomic aspects of strip intercropping lettuce with alyssum for biological control of aphids

Brennan

2013

Biological Control

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Secondary plants used in biological control: A review

Cited by 108 publications

References 77 publications

Approaches to conserving natural enemy populations in greenhouse crops: current methods and future prospects

Approaches to conserving natural enemy populations in greenhouse crops: current methods and future prospects

Introducing the term 'Biocontrol Plants' for integrated pest management

Agronomic aspects of strip intercropping lettuce with alyssum for biological control of aphids

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