• 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 ...

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