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The Bio-Protection Research Centre is a Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE), that pursues multidisciplinary research to meet the biosecurity and pest management needs of New Zealand's plant-based primary industries and natural ecosystems.

It was formed by New Zealand's leading plant protection scientists.

Current research programmes span a range of applications including computational intelligence, molecular biology, biotechnology and agro-ecology.

Based at Lincoln, many of the Centre's staff and postgraduate students are situated within the greater Lincoln campus - including the University and surrounding Crown Research Institutes.

Bio-Protection's well resourced laboratories are complemented by excellent field facilities and the NZ Biotron, one of only three plant growth facilities of its kind in the world.

More information is available from the Bio-Protection Research Centre Web site.

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First records of the Palaestes abruptus Sharp, 1899 and P. nicaraguae Sharp, 1899 (Coleoptera: Cucujidae) from South America, with a checklist of flat bark beetles from the continent

Jaskuła, R.; Michalski, M.; Marris, John W. M. (Pensoft Publishers, 2021-02-17)

Background: The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera: Cucujidae) is a small insect family with only about 70 species. Most of the species are distributed in Holarctic, Oriental and/or Australasian realms, while in South America, ...
Phytophthora agathidicida: Research progress, cultural perspectives and knowledge gaps in the control and management of kauri dieback in New Zealand

Bradshaw, R. E.; Bellgard, S. E.; Black, Amanda; Burns, B. R.; Gerth, M. L.; McDougal, R. L.; Scott, P. M.; Waipara, N. W.; Weir, B. S.; Williams, N. M.; Winkworth, R. C.; Ashcroft, T.; Bradley, E. L.; Dijkwel, P. P.; Guo, Y.; Lacey, R. F.; Mesarich, C. H.; Panda, P.; Horner, I. J. (Wiley on behalf of the British Society for Plant Pathology, 2020-01)

Kauri (Agathis australis), which is one of the world's largest and longest-living conifer species, is under threat from a root and collar dieback disease caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora agathidicida. The noted ...
Disentangling higher trophic level interactions in the cabbage aphid food web using high-throughput DNA sequencing

Lefort, Marie-Caroline; Wratten, Stephen D.; Cusumano, A.; Varennes, Yann-David; Boyer, Stephane (Pensoft Publishers, 2017-10-18)

The lack of understanding of complex food-web interactions has been a major gap in the history of biological control. In particular, a better understanding of the functioning of pest food-webs and how they vary between ...
Production of microsclerotia from entomopathogenic fungi and use in maize seed coating as delivery for biocontrol against Fusarium graminearum

Rivas-Franco, F.; Hampton, John G.; Altier, N. A.; Swaminathan, Jayanthi; Rostás, M.; Wessman, P.; Saville, D. J.; Jackson, T. A.; Jackson, M. A.; Glare, Travis (Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-12)

The commercial use of the entomopathogenic fungi Metarhizium spp. in biopesticides has gained more interest since the discovery that several species of this genus are able to colonize roots. In general, commercial products ...
The effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield: A quantitative synthesis

Albrecht, M.; Kleijn, D.; Williams, N. M.; Tschumi, M.; Blaauw, B. R.; Bommarco, R.; Campbell, A. J.; Dainese, M.; Drummond, F. A.; Entling, M. H.; Ganser, D.; de Groot, G. A.; Goulson, D.; Grab, H.; Hamilton, H.; Herzog, F.; Isaacs, R.; Jacot, K.; Jeanneret, P.; Jonsson, M.; Knop, E.; Kremen, C.; Landis, D. A.; Loeb, G. M.; Marini, L.; McKerchar, M.; Morandin, L.; Pfister, S. C.; Potts, S. G.; Rundlöf, M.; Sardiñas, H.; Sciligo, A.; Thies, C.; Tscharntke, T.; Venturini, E.; Veromann, E.; Vollhardt, I. M. G.; Wäckers, F.; Ward, K.; Wilby, A.; Woltz, M.; Wratten, Stephen D.; Sutter, L. (Wiley, 2020-10)

Floral plantings are promoted to foster ecological intensification of agriculture through provisioning of ecosystem services. However, a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of different floral plantings, their ...