A knowledge-based approach to designing control strategies for agricultural pests.

ABSTRACT: Chemical control of insect pests remains vital to agricultural productivity, but limited mechanistic understanding of the interactions between crop, pest and chemical control agent have restricted our capacity to respond to challenges such as the emergence of resistance and demands for tighter environmental regulation. Formulating effective control strategies that integrate chemical and non-chemical management for soil-dwelling pests is particularly problematic owing to the complexity of the soil-root-pest system and the variability that occurs between sites and between seasons. Here, we present a new concept, termed COMPASS, that integrates ecological knowledge on pest development and behaviour together with crop physiology and mechanistic understanding of chemical distribution and toxic

SUBMITTER: Agatz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7294735 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature