Integrated Pest Management of Fruit Trees and Other Horticultural Crops
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Pest Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 16788
Special Issue Editors
Interests: entomology; Thysanoptera; plant protection; integrated pest management; biological and biotechnical plant control; beneficial organisms in plant control; plant resistance to pest
Interests: acarology; applied entomology; ecology; integrated pest management; biological control; taxonomy; biodiversity; conservation
Interests: biological control; ecology; environmental science; entomology; pest management; insect ecology; integrated pest management; agricultural entomology; invertebrate conservation
Interests: biological control; endosymbionts; integrative taxonomy; invasive species
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Dear Colleagues,
Many pests negatively affect fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, edible mushrooms and ornamental plants production in the world. Many methods are used by the producers to minimize the quality and quantity losses of these pests in horticultural production. Integrated Pest Management aims to safely maintain economic, effective and long-term pest control. Generally, it contains suppressing pest populations to economic injury levels rather than eradicating them completely based on the use of different tactics (biological, genetic, cultural, physical etc.) to be combined with chemical control.
This special Issue address all principal component of IPM: prevention of pests (pre-sowing soil activities, crop rotation, use of resistant varieties), conservation and evaluation of natural enemies, monitoring and decision based on monitoring and thresholds (crop monitoring, pest prediction models, pheromone traps, sticky traps), non-chemical methods (mechanical control, trap cultivation, intercropping, physical control, biological control or various biotechnical methods), pesticide selection and reduced pesticide use and, anti-resistance strategies.
Dr. Maria Pobożniak
Dr. Sebahat K. Ozman-Sullivan
Dr. Gregory Thomas Sullivan
Dr. Umberto Bernardo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pest management practices
- insect pests, plant diseases, pest monitoring
- beneficial organisms, plant resistance to pest, biodiversity
- genotype, varieties
- biopesticides
- conventional insecticides
- crop residues
- yield losses
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