Prospects for microbial control of the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda: a review

J Guo, S Wu, F Zhang, C Huang, K He, D Babendreier… - BioControl, 2020 - Springer
The fall armyworm (FAW, Spodoptera frugiperda) is an important polyphagous insect pest in
many crops. This highly invasive pest species originates from the Americas and recently …

Viruses of the Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda: A Review with Prospects for Biological Control

AG Hussain, JT Wennmann, G Goergen, A Bryon… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, is a native pest species in the Western
hemisphere. Since it was first reported in Africa in 2016, FAW has spread throughout the …

Novel partiti-like viruses are conditional mutualistic symbionts in their normal lepidopteran host, African armyworm, but parasitic in a novel host, Fall armyworm

P Xu, L Yang, X Yang, T Li, RI Graham, K Wu… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Recent advances in next generation sequencing (NGS)(eg metagenomic and transcriptomic
sequencing) have facilitated the discovery of a large number of new insect viruses, but the …

Age‐related cannibalism and horizontal transmission of a nuclear polyhedrosis virus in larval Spodoptera frugiperda

JW Chapman, T Williams, AA Escribano… - Ecological …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Experiments were carried out to investigate the incidence of cannibalism throughout the
larval development of the noctuid moth Spodoptera frugiperda, and to examine the risk of …

Defective or effective? Mutualistic interactions between virus genotypes

M Lopez-Ferber, O Simon… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Defective viruses lack genes essential for survival but they can co–infect with complete virus
genotypes and use gene products from the complete genotype for their replication and …

Invasion history and management of Eucalyptus snout beetles in the Gonipterus scutellatus species complex

ML Schröder, B Slippers, MJ Wingfield… - Journal of Pest Science, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Gonipterus scutellatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), once thought to be a single
species, is now known to reside in a complex of at least eight cryptic species. Two of these …

[PDF][PDF] Baculovirus biopesticides: an overview.

A Beas-Catena, A Sánchez-Mirón… - JAPS: Journal of …, 2014 - thejaps.org.pk
Baculoviruses have shown to be a good tool for insect pest control. Numerous natural
baculoviruses have been used as biopesticides worldwide as they are naturally occurring …

Spodoptera frugiperda multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus as a potential biological insecticide: genetic and phenotypic comparison of field isolates from Colombia

G Barrera, O Simón, L Villamizar, T Williams… - Biological Control, 2011 - Elsevier
Thirty-eight isolates of Spodoptera frugiperda multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (SfMNPV),
collected from infected larvae on pastures, maize, and sorghum plants in three different …

Genetic Structure of a Spodoptera frugiperda Nucleopolyhedrovirus Population: High Prevalence of Deletion Genotypes

O Simón, T Williams, M López-Ferber… - Applied and …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A Nicaraguan field isolate (SfNIC) of Spodoptera frugiperda
nucleopolyhedrovirus was purified by plaque assay on Sf9 cells. Nine distinct genotypes, A …

Biological characterization of two Spodoptera frugiperda nucleopolyhedrovirus isolates from Mexico and evaluation of one isolate in a small-scale field trial

D García-Banderas, F Tamayo-Mejía, S Pineda… - Biological Control, 2020 - Elsevier
This study describes the biological activity of two Spodoptera frugiperda multiple
nucleocapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus (SfMNPV) isolates recovered from the soil of maize …