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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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The impacts of plant species on the fitness of the tomato potato psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli) and the efficacy of its non-chemical management strategies

London, Howard (Lincoln University, 2018-02-28)

Important vegetables such as tomato and potato, among others are affected by Bactericera cockerelli (the tomato potato psyllid; TPP). TPP causes psyllid yellows on these plants. However, in the recent years, it was discovered ...
Ants contribute to pollination but not to reproduction in a rare calcareous grassland forb

Rostas, Michael; Bollmann, F.; Saville, D.; Riedel, M. (PeerJ, 2018-02-19)

The number of plants pollinated by ants is surprisingly low given the abundance of ants and the fact that they are common visitors of angiosperms. Generally ants are considered as nectar robbers that do not provide pollination ...
Effects of different dispersal patterns on the presence-absence of multiple species

Mohd, M. H.; Murray, R.; Plank, M. J.; Godsoe, William (Elsevier, 2018-03)

Predicting which species will be present (or absent) across a geographical region remains one of the key problems in ecology. Numerous studies have suggested several ecological factors that can determine species presence-absence: ...
The Ustilago maydis repetitive effector Rsp3 blocks the antifungal activity of mannose-binding maize proteins

Ma, L.-S.; Wang, L.; Trippel, C.; Mendoza - Mendoza, Artemio; Ullmann, S.; Moretti, M.; Carsten, A.; Kahnt, J.; Reissmann, S.; Zechmann, B.; Bange, G.; Kahmann, R. (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-04-27)

To cause disease in maize, the biotrophic fungus Ustilago maydis secretes a large arsenal of effector proteins. Here, we functionally characterize the repetitive effector Rsp3 (repetitive secreted protein 3), which shows ...
Detection of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana in the rhizosphere of wound-stressed Zea mays plants

McKinnon, Aimee; Glare, Travis; Ridgway, Hayley J.; Mendoza - Mendoza, Artemio; Holyoake, Andrew J.; Godsoe, William; Bufford, Jennifer (Frontiers Media, 2018-06-11)

Entomopathogenic fungi from the genus Beauveria (Vuillemin) play an important role in controlling insect populations and have been increasingly utilized for the biological control of insect pests. Various studies have ...