Using plant chemistry to improve interactions between plants, herbivores and their natural enemies: challenges and opportunities

Chemical host-seeking cues of entomopathogenic nematodes

(2021) Xi Zhang et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Engineering bacterial symbionts of nematodes improves biocontrol potential of the western corn rootworm

(2020) Ricardo A. R. Machado et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Entomopathogenic nematodes from Mexico that can overcome the resistance mechanisms of the western corn rootworm

(2020) Pamela Bruno et al.   Scientific Reports

Plant resistance does not compromise parasitoid-based biocontrol of a strawberry pest

(2020) Daniela Weber et al.   Scientific Reports

Next‐generation biological control: the need for integrating genetics and genomics

(2020) Kelley Leung et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Detoxification of plant defensive glucosinolates by an herbivorous caterpillar is beneficial to its endoparasitic wasp

(2020) Ruo Sun et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The selective sequestration of glucosinolates by the cabbage aphid severely impacts a predatory lacewing

(2020) Ruo Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE

Plant toxins and parasitoid trophic ecology

(2019) Paul J Ode   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Next generation biological control – an introduction

(2019) Sophie Le Hesran et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Does experimental evolution produce better biological control agents? A critical review of the evidence

(2019) Manolis Lirakis et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Plant defense resistance in natural enemies of a specialist insect herbivore

(2019) Xi Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tritrophic metabolism of plant chemical defenses and its effects on herbivore and predator performance

(2019) Ruo Sun et al.   eLife

Tritrophic Interactions Mediated by Herbivore-Induced Plant Volatiles: Mechanisms, Ecological Relevance, and Application Potential

(2018) Ted C.J. Turlings et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Improving the efficiency of augmentative biological control with arthropod natural enemies: A modeling approach

(2018) Wouter N. Plouvier et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Optimization of native biocontrol agents, with parasitoids of the invasive pest Drosophila suzukii as an example

(2018) Astrid Kruitwagen et al.   Evolutionary Applications

An herbivore-induced plant volatile reduces parasitoid attraction by changing the smell of caterpillars

(2018) Meng Ye et al.   Science Advances

Induced plant defences in biological control of arthropod pests: a double-edged sword

(2017) Maria L Pappas et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Feeding on toxic prey. The praying mantis (Mantodea) as predator of poisonous butterfly and moth (Lepidoptera) caterpillars

(2017) Dietrich Mebs et al.   TOXICON

Sequestration and activation of plant toxins protect the western corn rootworm from enemies at multiple trophic levels

(2017) Christelle AM Robert et al.   eLife

Impact of Consuming ‘Toxic’ Monarch Caterpillars on Adult Chinese Mantid Mass Gain and Fecundity

(2017) Jamie Rafter et al.   Insects

Genomics of Entomopathogenic Nematodes and Implications for Pest Control

(2016) Dihong Lu et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Integration of Plant Defense Traits with Biological Control of Arthropod Pests: Challenges and Opportunities

(2016) Julie A. Peterson et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Genetic selection of the ambush foraging entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema carpocapsae for enhanced dispersal and its associated trade-offs

(2014) Harit K. Bal et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Development of a generalist predator, Podisus maculiventris, on glucosinolate sequestering and nonsequestering prey

(2014) Moniek van Geem et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Genetically engineered maize plants reveal distinct costs and benefits of constitutive volatile emissions in the field

(2013) Christelle Aurélie Maud Robert et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Natural history-driven, plant-mediated RNAi-based study reveals CYP6B46's role in a nicotine-mediated antipredator herbivore defense

(2013) P. Kumar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Herbivore-Mediated Effects of Glucosinolates on Different Natural Enemies of a Specialist Aphid

(2012) Martine Kos et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

The state of commercial augmentative biological control: plenty of natural enemies, but a frustrating lack of uptake

(2011) Joop C. van Lenteren   BIOCONTROL

Effects of nitrogen fertilization on tritrophic interactions

(2010) Yigen Chen et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Host-adapted parasitoids in biological control: Does source matter?

(2010) Lee M. Henry et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Selection of entomopathogenic nematodes for enhanced responsiveness to a volatile root signal helps to control a major root pest

(2010) I. Hiltpold et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

How maize root volatiles affect the efficacy of entomopathogenic nematodes in controlling the western corn rootworm?

(2009) Ivan Hiltpold et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

Plant chemistry and insect sequestration

(2009) Sebastian E. W. Opitz et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

Energetic costs of detoxification systems in herbivores feeding on chemically defended host plants: a correlational study in the grain aphid, Sitobion avenae

(2009) L. E. Castaneda et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Eating chemically defended prey: alkaloid metabolism in an invasive ladybird predator of other ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

(2009) J. J. Sloggett et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Restoring a maize root signal that attracts insect-killing nematodes to control a major pest

(2009) J. Degenhardt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA