Cereals

Guidelines for handling living biostimulant products for seed treatment

- Living biostimulant products, or biologicals, are marketed to growers for crop enhancement. The handling of these products during preparation likely introduces microbial contamination prior to...

Grain Expansion in China's Drylands Secures Food but Intensifies Environmental Trade?Offs

05/08/2026 - AbstractDrylands are increasingly crucial for global food supply, and grain cultivation there continues to expand. Newly cultivated croplands in these regions are often assumed to be biophysically...

Two-spot cotton leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae): biology, rapid invasion, potential seconomic impact, and integrated control measures

07/08/2026 - The polyphagous, invasive, 2-spot cotton leafhopper, Amrasca biguttula (Ishida) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) is a new threat to US agriculture. Preliminary projections based on reported losses from...

Paving the Way for Plant?Based Bioproduction of (Z)?13?Octadecenoic Moth Pheromone Compounds

- ABSTRACTSex pheromones are eco?friendly agents to control pest insects. Yet, the cost of synthetic pheromone production has restricted their use essentially to high value crops. Plant?based...

Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance 8?methyldecan?2?yl propanoate

- AbstractThe conclusions of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) following the peer review of the initial risk assessments carried out by the competent authority of the rapporteur Member State...

Fire Blight: Scientific Progress and Control Strategies

- Erwinia amylovora causes the most devastating bacterial disease in pome fruits worldwide. Despite the absence of curative treatments, advancing research on pathogenicity mechanisms is essential....

Profile of the Dectes stem borer (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in sunflower and soybean

24/07/2026 - Dectes stem borer, Dectes texanus LeConte, is native to North America and is an economically important pest of sunflower and soybean across the US Dectes stem borer reached the status of an...

CfSnt2?CfRpd3?Mediated H3 Deacetylation Governs the ROS?Induced Autophagy and Pathogenicity of Colletotrichum fructicola

- The CfSnt2?CfRpd3?mediated H3 deacetylation negatively regulates ROS?induced autophagy. The CfRpd3 and CfSnt2 undergo down?regulated expression to relieve the inhibition of autophagy. Thus, autophagy...

Correction to “Overexpression of FBR41 Enhances Resistance to Sphinganine Analog Mycotoxin?Induced Cell Death and Alternaria Stem Canker in Tomato”

- ABSTRACTGrain size is a critical agronomic trait, yet the molecular mechanisms governing its determination in crops remain incompletely understood. While recent studies revealed that OsRING80...

Assessment of genetically modified soybean FG72 for renewal authorisation under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 (dossier GMFF?2025?33580)

- AbstractFollowing the submission of dossier GMFF?2025?33580 under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 from Syngenta Crop Protection AG, the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of the EFSA was asked to...

Addressing the knowledge gaps and management challenges of Lycorma delicatula (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) in the southeastern United States

30/06/2026 - This review of the spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula (White), presents its biology and life cycle, distribution, pest status, injury, host range, and ecology. The authors (associated with the...

Olive Anthracnose: Current State of the Art, Global Distribution and Associated Colletotrichum Species

- We review the distribution and diversity of Colletotrichum species, recent advances in the biology, epidemiology and host–pathogen interactions, emerging management strategies including early...

Spotted-wing Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae): the southernmost records affecting wild and cultivated fruits and vegetables in the Chilean Patagonia

18/06/2026 - The spotted wing Drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura 1931), is an invasive species of ripening soft fruit, first reported in Japan in 1916 and widely distributed worldwide in the past 20...

Polyploidization enhances plant resistance to Alternaria alternata via DNA hypomethylation activated WRKYs

19/02/2026 - Polyploidization is a major driver of plant evolution and stress adaptation, yet its role in modulating biotic stress resistance through epigenetic mechanisms remains poorly understood. This study...

No Cost of Resistance in Wheat Gene Stack Lines Containing 10 Stem Rust Resistance Transgenes

- ABSTRACTGenetic resistance is the most economical and sustainable approach for crop protection, however, it is regularly overcome by pathogen virulence evolution. Polygenic resistance has greater...

Correction to “FtBPM3 modulates the orchestration of FtMYB11?mediated flavonoids biosynthesis in Tartary buckwheat”

- ABSTRACTBotrytis cinerea is a widespread plant pathogenic ascomycete that causes grey mould in over 1400 species and impacts global crop yields. Double?stranded RNA (dsRNA)?induced gene silencing is...

Sap-sucking insects associated with medicinal Cannabis sativa L. in Brazil

02/06/2026 - Sap-sucking insects are among the most important pests of Cannabis sativa worldwide; however, there are no formal records of their occurrence in medicinal cannabis crops in Brazil. Field records...

Polyphagozerra coffeae (Lepidoptera: Cossidae)—a wood-boring pest of coffee and other tree crops

01/06/2026 - The red coffee borer, Polyphagozerra coffeae (Nietner) (formerly Zeuzera coffeae)—native to South and Southeast Asia—is a highly polyphagous wood-boring pest. This review summarizes the biology,...

Association of Agro?Morphological Traits With Cup Quality in Accessions of Coffea arabica L. From the INIA Germplasm Bank, Peru

- ABSTRACTIn recent years, Peruvian coffee production has increasingly focused on specialty coffees, with cup quality (CQ) as a key criterion. While previous studies have characterized the Coffee...

Interactional Endocytosis and Transmembrane Transport Promote Cellular Internalization of Nano?Delivered RNA Drugs for Efficient Control of Crop Diseases

Mitigating pesticide overreliance in high-value agriculture: evidence from conservation biological control practices

- IntroductionConservation biological control (CBC) is increasingly regarded as a promising nature-based strategy for reducing dependence on chemical pesticides. However, evidence remains limited on...

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