Prioritisation of damaging weed biological control agents for prickly acacia (Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica) based on insect exclusion studies in the native range

Dhileepan, Kunjithapatham; Balu, A.; Sudha, S.; Raghu, S.

doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2022.104968

Biological Control

2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2022.104968

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Prioritisation of damaging weed biological control agents for prickly acacia (Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica) based on insect exclusion studies in the native range

Kunjithapatham Dhileepan¹,

A. Balu²,

S. Sudha³

et al.

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Life cycle, host specificity and potential impact of a gall-inducing thrips Acaciothrips ebneri, a biological control agent for prickly acacia (Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica) in Australia

Shi,

Dhileepan

2024

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Prickly acacia (Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica (Benth.) Kyal. & Boatwr.; Fabales: Fabaceae) is a Weed of National Significance and a target for biological control in Australia. Currently there are no effective biological control agents for the weed in Australia. Based on genetic and climate matching, a gall thrips (Acaciothrips ebneri Karny; Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) inducing rosette galls resulting in shoot tip dieback, was identified as a prospective biological control agent from Ethiopia. No-choice host-specificity tests were conducted on 59 test plant species in a high security quarantine in Brisbane, Australia. Acaciothrips ebneri is host-specific, inducing galls and reproducing only on prickly acacia. Acaciothrips ebneri, as predicted by the CLIMEX model, is suited to hot and arid western Queensland where major prickly acacia infestations occur. The Australian Government approved A. ebneri for field release in October 2022. This is the first time a true gall-inducing thrips has ever been approved as a weed biological control agent. Field releases commenced in January 2023 and are in progress. There are early signs of field establishment resulting in shoot tip die back in the field, and field release and monitoring will continue.

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Life cycle, host specificity and potential impact of a gall-inducing thrips Acaciothrips ebneri, a biological control agent for prickly acacia (Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica) in Australia

Shi,

Dhileepan

2024

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Prioritisation of damaging weed biological control agents for prickly acacia (Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica) based on insect exclusion studies in the native range

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

Life cycle, host specificity and potential impact of a gall-inducing thrips Acaciothrips ebneri, a biological control agent for prickly acacia (Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica) in Australia

Life cycle, host specificity and potential impact of a gall-inducing thrips Acaciothrips ebneri, a biological control agent for prickly acacia (Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica) in Australia

Response of the invasive fireweed (Senecio madagascariensis) to variable levels of larval stem-boring by Gasteroclisus tricostalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a potential biological control agent

Enhancing pre-release studies for weed biocontrol agents: A review of existing and emerging tools

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