Major Insects of Wheat: Biology and Mitigation Strategies

Kamran, Atif; Asif, Muhammad; Hussain, Syed Bilal; Ahmad, M. Feza; Hirani, Arvind H.

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“…Many insect pests, such as cereal leaf beetle, wheat stem sawfly, pink stem borer, Hessian fly, armyworm and aphid feed on this wheat crop (Kamran et al, 2013;Shanower et al, 2004) among which the aphid is considered as one of the major pest of this crop (Steffey et al, 2012).Wheat aphid (Schizaphis graminum R.), commonly known as plant lice is distributed throughout the world and feeds on about sixty host plants including wheat, sorghum, barley, corn etc (Bosque-Pérez et al, 2000). It has been reported as the major pest of wheat crop in Pakistan (Kamran et al, 2013) In temperate regions w aphid reproduces asexually throughout the year. Due to occasional sexual reproductions, it has developed different biotypes.…”

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Biophysical Management of Aphid (Schizaphis graminum Rondani) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Wheat Crop

Hassan

Nadeem

Rehman

et al. 2023

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Aphid is a major pest of wheat that causes substantial agricultural damages to wheat crop annually. In the present study, experiments on ecofriendly management of this pest were conducted at the experimental area of Arid Zone Research Institute (AZRI), Bhakkar. The trials were laid down in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replications. Data was collected at seven days interval by counting method. As far as efficiency of yellow sticky traps is concerned, the plot having 4-traps captured maximum (848.07) aphids. As a result, minimum (11.16 aphid tiller-1) were observed in the respective plot. The same plot exhibited maximum population reduction (71.93%) and grain yield (6617.9 kg ha-1). The plot having 1-trap captured minimum (257.33) aphids. Consequently, maximum (33.37 aphids/tiller) were found in the field. The same treatment showed minimum population reduction (23.99%) and grain yield (5489.1 kg ha-1). Chrysoperla carnea was found a voracious predator of the pest. The plot having 4-egg cards of this predator showed minimum (7.69 aphids tiller-1) with maximum (49.50%) population reduction of the aphid followed by 8.78 aphids/tiller in the plot having 3-egg cards with 42.56% population reduction. Lowest population reduction (12.33%) was found in the plot having 1 egg card.

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Biophysical Management of Aphid (Schizaphis graminum Rondani) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Wheat Crop

Hassan

Nadeem

Rehman

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“…Among insects, orange wheat blossom midge (OWMB), Sitodoplosis mosellana (Géhin), is recognized as one of economically important insects (Zhang et al, 2020). Losses due to this pest can go up to 30% in yield responsible for an economic loss of 30 million dollars (Kamran et al, 2013). The 1950s' and 1980s' outbreaks of OWBM in China witnessed 50% yield reduction in wheat production (Duan et al, 2013).…”

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Genetic Insight Into the Insect Resistance in Bread Wheat Exploiting the Untapped Natural Diversity

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Climate change is an undeniable threat to sustainable wheat production in the future as an increased temperature will significantly increase grain loss due to the increased number of generations per season of multivoltine species that are detrimental to plants. Among insects, orange wheat blossom midge (OWBM), yellow wheat blossom midge (YWBM), saddle gall midge (SGM), thrips, and frit fly (FF) are important wheat pests in the European environments, which can be managed by the development of resistant cultivars. This involves the identification, confirmation, and incorporation of insect resistance sources into new high-yielding cultivars. We used two diverse and unrelated wheat [winter wheat (WW) and spring wheat (SW)] panels to associate single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers with the mentioned pests using the tools of association mapping. All in all, a total of 645 and 123 significant associations were detected in WW and SW, respectively, which were confined to 246 quantitative trait loci. Many candidate genes were identified using the BLAST analysis of the sequences of associated SNPs. Some of them are involved in controlling the physical structures of plants such as stomatal immunity and closure, cuticular wax in leaf blade, whereas others are involved in the production of certain enzymes in response to biotic and abiotic stresses. To our knowledge, this is the first detailed investigation that deals with YWBM, SGM, thrips, and FF resistance genetics using the natural variation in wheat. The reported germplasm is also readily available to breeders across the world that can make rational decisions to breed for the pest resilience of their interest by including the resistant genotypes being reported.

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Nanotechnology for Wheat and Barley Health Management: Current Scenario and Future Prospectus

Kashyap

Kumar

Kaul

et al. 2022

New Horizons in Wheat and Barley Research

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Major Insects of Wheat: Biology and Mitigation Strategies

Cited by 6 publications

References 84 publications

Biophysical Management of Aphid (Schizaphis graminum Rondani) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Wheat Crop

Biophysical Management of Aphid (Schizaphis graminum Rondani) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Wheat Crop

Genetic Insight Into the Insect Resistance in Bread Wheat Exploiting the Untapped Natural Diversity

Nanotechnology for Wheat and Barley Health Management: Current Scenario and Future Prospectus

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