PARISA LOTFOLLAHI, KARIM HADDAD IRANI-NEJAD, MOHAMAD KHANJANI, MOHAMAD MOGHADAM & ENRICO DE LILLO Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bu-Ali Sina, Hamadan, Iran Department of Crop Production and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Univ...

The rhizosphere is a narrow area around plant roots in which root-secreted secondary metabolites and microorganisms co-exist and interact. This area can also be considered as a battle field where beneficial bacteria and deleterious microorganisms compete. Therefore, this specific root area has been a topic of interest for researchers for more than a century. Among the diverse microbial populati...

Before the Industrial Revolution, artists and artisans would strive to make a work as perfect as possible. They used the technologies of their time to make as fine a product as their skill and limited technology allowed. Given the long painstaking efforts involved in creation, such items were few in number and available to only a minuscule number of elites. They were the crowning achievement of...

This position paper intends to stimulate a profound rethinking of contemporary agricultural practice. We criticise the current intensity of chemical plant protection in Germany as ecologically unsustainable and thus threatening the achievement of key targets of environmental protection and nature conservation policies. In the first part of the paper, we provide background information on the use...

Exogenous application of plant resistance inducers (PRIs) able to activate plant defenses is an interesting approach for new integrated pest management practices. The full integration of PRIs into agricultural practices requires methods for the fast and objective upstream screening of efficient PRIs and optimization of their application. To select active PRIs, we used a molecular tool as an alt...

1 State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, 2 School of Biology, University of St Andrews, East Sands, St Andrews, United Kingdom, 3 Scientific Observation and Experimental Station of Pests in Xilingol Rangeland, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Acad...