Saw-toothed grain beetle, Oryzaephilus surinamensis, an internationally important stored product pest

M Gourgouta, WR Morrison III, DW Hagstrum… - Journal of Stored …, 2023 - Elsevier
The saw-toothed grain beetle, Oryzaephilus surinamensis (L.)(Coleoptera: Silvanidae) is a
major external-infesting pest of various stored products worldwide. The last review was …

Deciphering plant-insect-microorganism signals for sustainable crop production

G Thomas, Q Rusman, WR Morrison III, DM Magalhães… - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Agricultural crop productivity relies on the application of chemical pesticides to reduce pest
and pathogen damage. However, chemical pesticides also pose a range of ecological …

Short-term spatial dispersion patterns between the larger grain borer and the maize weevil in grain columns

HE Quellhorst, TN Kim, KY Zhu… - Environmental …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The invasive larger grain borer (Prostephanus truncatus) and the maize weevil (Sitophilus
zeamais) co-occur in many regions of the world. While competition between these 2 species …

Pest management in the postharvest agricultural supply chain under climate change

AR Gerken, WR Morrison III - Frontiers in Agronomy, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is a danger to the agricultural system and will impact the availability of food
to feed the world. While much attention has focused on the effects of climate change on pest …

Farm2Fork through the lens of community ecology: concepts and applications in postharvest storage

AR Gerken, WR Morrison III - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The environment in which postharvest crops are processed and stored is a dynamic
ecosystem influenced not only by environmental factors such as temperature and humidity …

Disruption of semiochemical‐mediated movement by the immature Trogoderma variabile Baillon and Trogoderma inclusum Le Conte (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) …

S Ranabhat, MJ Domingue, L Lebar… - Pest Management …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Highly mobile stored product insects may be able to readily orient in
response to food cues and pheromones to attack durable commodities at each link of the …

Grain inoculated with different growth stages of the fungus, Aspergillus flavus, affect the close-range foraging behavior by a primary stored product pest, Sitophilus …

MA Ponce, S Lizarraga, A Bruce, TN Kim… - Environmental …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Although some research has investigated the interactions among stored product insects and
microbes, little research has examined how specific fungal life stages affect volatile …

Attraction, mobility, and preference by Lasioderma serricorne (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) to microbially-mediated volatile emissions by two species of fungi in stored grain

MA Ponce, P Sierra, JM Maille, TN Kim, ED Scully… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Insects and microbes are known to interact in a variety of ways at food facilities,
compounding damage. However, little research has explicated how specific common fungal …

Microbial vectoring capacity by internal‐and external‐infesting stored product insects after varying dispersal periods between novel food patches: An underestimated …

MA Ponce, JM Maille, I Stoll, A James… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the ability of internal‐and external‐infesting stored product insects to vector
microbes is important for estimating the relative risk that insects pose to postharvest …

[HTML][HTML] Volatile-mediated interactions between Trichoderma harzianum and Acanthoscelides obtectus: A novel in vitro methodology to evaluate the impact of …

S Álvarez-García, Á Rodríguez-González, L Zanfano… - Biological Control, 2022 - Elsevier
Biological interactions mediated by Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOCs) is a well-
established field that has been researched for decades. Although extensive focus is …