BACKGROUND The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) is a major pest and a serious threat to potato cultivation throughout the northern hemisphere. Despite its high importance for invasion biology, phenology and pest management, little is known about L. decemlineata from a genomic perspective. We subjected European L. decemlineata adult and larval transcriptome samples to 454-FLX m...

The effects of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis applications and early harvest of potatoes on reducing the size of overwintering Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say), populations in eastern North Carolina were investigated over 3 yr. In large-plot (0.04 ha) experiments, potato beetle densities and defoliation levels in plots that were either treated with B. thuringie...

Pojava rezistentnosti na insekticide kod kukaca ozbiljan je i rastući problem u poljoprivrednoj proizvodnji. Razvijanjem učinkovitih programa praćenja omogućava se rano otkrivanje te razvoj pravovremena implementacija antirezistentnih strategija. Polimorfizam pojedinačnog nukleotida, engl. Syngle Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), novija metoda analize cijelog genoma utvrđivanjem polimorfizma poj...

W ith the help of radioactive dilution analysis allowing the qualitative and quantitative deter­ mination of all three presently known juvenile hormones (JH-1 to 3) the following seven species of four orders were investigated in the adult stage: Coleoptera: Tenebrio molitor, Leptinotarsa decemlineata; O rthoptera: Schistocerca gregaria; B lattodea: Blatt a orientalis, Leucophaea maderae, Naupho...