The Rise of Applied Entomology in the Russian Empire: Governmental, Public, and Academic Responses to Insect Pest Outbreaks from 1840 to 1894

Лоскутова, Марина; Fedotova, Anastasia

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-12185-7_8

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“…Since the early 1920s the USSR had been engaged in a highly successful malaria eradication campaign in their own country. 4 In contrast to the GMEP the Soviet approach to disease control was multilateral and community-based, relying on local health networks for intensive disease surveillance and treatment, rural antimalarial stations to coordinate comprehensive environmental management including drainage, filling, insecticide application and a long tradition of entomological and ecological expertise connected to regional stations for pest control and forestry experimentation [Loskutova and Fedotova 2015].…”

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Seeing Cellular Debris, Remembering a Soviet Method

Kelly

2016

Visual Anthropology

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A 1962 photomicrograph of a mosquito taken in what was then a Tanganyikan mountain laboratory offers a prompt to consider the social salience and affective power of scientific images. Drawing inspiration from anthropological work on photographic practices, this article excavates the diverse geopolitical and domestic contexts of the image's production, consumption and circulation, so as to grasp the relationship between scientific labors and lives. As much souvenir as "epistemic thing," the photomicrograph provides new directions in thinking about the materiality of memory in tropical medicine.

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Seeing Cellular Debris, Remembering a Soviet Method

Kelly

2016

Visual Anthropology

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“…One of the questions concerned networks and the progressive decentralisation of knowledge production as more and more imperial regions invested in scholarly societies, often in connection with cataloguing and controlling people, nature, and natural resources. Investigations into the calibration of scholarly networks have shown that this process was not unidirectional but involved back-and-forth communication and that both centres and provinces had to work on their conceptual and linguistic frameworks, which modified both of them (Loskutova and Fedotova 2015).…”

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Imperial Science in Central and Eastern Europe

Surman

2022

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The history of imperial science has been a growing topic over recent decades. Overviews of the imperial history of science have rarely included the Russian, Habsburg, and German empires. The history of Central and Eastern Europe has embraced empire as an analytical and critical category only recently, having previously pursued national historiographies and romanticised versions of imperial pasts. This article highlights several key narratives of imperial sciences in Central and Eastern Europe that have appeared over the past twenty years, especially in anglophone literature. Interdependence between national and imperial institutions and biographies, the history of nature as an interplay of scales, and finally, the histories of imagining a path between imperialism and nationalism, demonstrate how the history of imperial science can become an important part of the discussion of Central European history from a global perspective, as well as how the history of science can be factored into the general history of this region. Finally, I argue that the imperial history of science can play an important role in re-thinking the post/decolonial history of Central and Eastern Europe, an issue that, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has become the centre of intellectual attention.

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“…Furthermore, Metarhizium and Beauveria spp. are the most common fungi used as commercial microbial biopesticides (Um et al, 2018), re ecting the ease of mass production as saprophytic cultures (Jaronski, 2023;Loskutova and Fedotova, 2015;Mechnikov, 1879;Shah and Pell, 2003;Zimmermann et al, 1995). In nature, the fungal saprophytic lifestyle is characterized by growth on organic matter in the soil (St Leger and Wang, 2020) until a suitable host is encountered (Stone and Bidochka, 2020).…”

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Transcriptional reprogramming in the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium brunneum and its aphid host Myzus persicae during the switch between saprophytic and parasitic lifestyles

Reingold,

Faigenboim,

Matveev

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Background The fungus Metarhizium brunneum has evolved a remarkable ability to switch between different lifestyles. It develops as a saprophyte, an endophyte establishing mutualistic relationships with plants, or a parasite, enabling its use for the control of insect pests such as the aphid Myzus persicae. We tested our hypothesis that switches between lifestyles must be accompanied by fundamental transcriptional reprogramming, reflecting adaptations to different environmental settings. Results We combined high throughput RNA sequencing of M. brunneum in vitro and at different stages of pathogenesis to validate the modulation of genes in the fungus and its host during early infection. In agreement with our hypothesis, we observed transcriptional reprogramming in M. brunneum following conidial attachment, germination on the cuticle, and early-stage growth within the host. This involved the upregulation of genes encoding degrading enzymes and gene clusters involved in synthesis of secondary metabolites that act as virulence factors. The transcriptional response of the aphid host included the upregulation of genes potentially involved in antifungal activity, but antifungal peptides were not induced. We also observed the induction of a host flightin gene, which may be involved in wing formation and flight muscle development. Conclusions The switch from saprophytic to parasitic development in M. brunneum is accompanied by fundamental transcriptional reprogramming during the early phases of infection. The aphid host responds to fungal infection with its own transcriptional reprogramming, reflecting its inability to express antifungal peptides but featuring the induction of genes involved in winged morphs that may enable offspring to avoid the contaminated environment.

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The Rise of Applied Entomology in the Russian Empire: Governmental, Public, and Academic Responses to Insect Pest Outbreaks from 1840 to 1894

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

Seeing Cellular Debris, Remembering a Soviet Method

Seeing Cellular Debris, Remembering a Soviet Method

Imperial Science in Central and Eastern Europe

Transcriptional reprogramming in the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium brunneum and its aphid host Myzus persicae during the switch between saprophytic and parasitic lifestyles

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