التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Insecticidal Action of Local Isolates of Entomopathogenic Fungi Against Bactrocera oleae Pupae. |
| المؤلفون: |
Mantzoukas, Spiridon1 (AUTHOR) agu16208@uoi.gr, Margaritis, Alexandros1 (AUTHOR) agu16281@uoi.gr, Sourouni, Thomais1 (AUTHOR) agu16148@uoi.gr, Georgopoulou, Vasiliki1 (AUTHOR) chris.zarm@hotmail.com, Zarmakoupi, Chrysanthi1 (AUTHOR) b.papantzikos@uoi.gr, Papantzikos, Vasileios1 (AUTHOR) gpatakiu@uoi.gr, Lagogiannis, Ioannis2 (AUTHOR) lagoipp@gmail.com, Eliopoulos, Panagiotis A.3 (AUTHOR) eliopoulos@uth.gr, Patakioutas, George1 (AUTHOR) |
| المصدر: |
Biology (2079-7737). Jan2025, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p5. 15p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*OLIVE fly, *FRUIT fly control, *OLIVE oil, *OIL mills, *SOIL fungi, *BEAUVERIA bassiana, *ENTOMOPATHOGENIC fungi |
| مستخلص: |
Simple Summary: Olive cultivation in Greece suffers every summer due to the olive fruit fly. The damage it causes is usually noticed about two months before harvest, when the pest's population has increased considerably. There are various methods for limiting the olive fruit fly, but no one has been able to completely eliminate this problem to date. This insect pupates in the soil, which is the natural environment of entomopathogenic fungi. Therefore, it is an advantage for entomopathogenic fungi to be used to control the olive fruit fly at this early stage before it even proceeds to harm the olive fruits. In this study, we tried to simulate the real conditions in which the pest pupates and the entomopathogenic fungi inhabit using soil samples. They could be used as an alternative to pesticides, which, due to their overuse, alter olive oil quality. In this work, the ability of certain entomopathogenic fungi to control the olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae (Diptera: Tephritidae), which significantly affects olive cultivation, was assessed. First, entomopathogenic fungi that often contribute to reducing pests, as well as B. oleae, were sought out. Puparia of B. oleae were collected from oil mills, and soil samples were collected from various olive grove regions of Greece. These soils were used as the substrate in which the effect of the entomopathogenic fungi on the B. oleae pupae was studied. In addition, the same treatments were studied in non-soil conditions. The results show that certain known entomopathogenic fungi are able, in their natural environment, to kill B. oleae pupae to a significant extent. The survival time for adults (days) was lower in the presence of Beauveria bassiana (Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae), at 13.20 in the soil (5.56 ± 0.42) and non-soil (6.76 ± 0.46) conditions, compared to that of the control in soil (9.83 ± 083) and non-soil (9.90 ± 0.72) conditions. This is encouraging for Mediterranean regions where the presence of B. oleae significantly affects olive cultivation, while quality olive oil is in high demand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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