Revista: | Biotecnología aplicada |
Base de datos: | PERIÓDICA |
Número de sistema: | 000349804 |
ISSN: | 0864-4551 |
Autores: | Rodríguez, Héctor1 Ramos, Mayra2 Montoya, Adrián3 Rodríguez, Yaritza4 Chico, Reynaldo1 Miranda, Ileana1 Depestre, Tomás L4 |
Instituciones: | 1Centro Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuaria, San José de las Lajas, Mayabeque. Cuba 2Instituto Superior de Tecnologías y Ciencias Aplicadas, Facultad de Gestión de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y el Medio Ambiente, La Habana. Cuba 3Centro Universitario de Guantánamo, Facultad Agroforestal de Montaña, El Salvador, Guantánamo. Cuba 4Instituto de Investigaciones Hortícolas Liliana Dimitrova, Quivicán, Mayabeque. Cuba |
Año: | 2011 |
Volumen: | 28 |
Número: | 3 |
Paginación: | 171-175 |
País: | Cuba |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
Enfoque: | Experimental, aplicado |
Resumen en inglés | The broad mites, Polyphagotarsonemus latus (Banks) (Acari: Tarsonemidae) is a cosmopolitan pest of many important crops as potatoes, beans, peppers, and citrus which lives in tropical, subtropical regions and greenhouses worldwide. Acording to its biological and ethological characteristics its control is complex by traditional methods of plant protection. For this reason, the use of the predatory mites of the Phytoseiidae family is an adequate and efficient management alternative. The present paper comprises the characterization of the potentiality of Amblyseius largoensis (Muma) (Acari: Phtyoseiidae) as biological control agent of P. latus integrating, for the first time, the predator’s biological characteristics; feeding behavior and the numeric and functional responses; development of methodologies for mass rearing of the biological agent and parameters for quality control processes; the study of pest behavior in the protected production of Cuban hybrids of pepper, adapting the sampling methodology and determining the thresholds to estimate the population levels in these conditions. The compatibility of this predator with the principal chemicals and biological products used in the protected production and their effectiveness as biological control agent of P. latus in different conditions were evaluated. The results obtained demonstrated that A. largoensis is a new biological alternative for the management of broad mite populations in the protected production of peppers, which could be used in other agroecosystems; those that P. latus constitutes a problem, prior validation |
Disciplinas: | Agrociencias |
Palabras clave: | Fitopatología, Quelicerados, Acaros fitófagos, Control biológico, Amblyseius largoensis, Depredación, Polyphagotarsonemus latus |
Keyword: | Agricultural sciences, Phytopathology, Chelicerata, Phytophagous mites, Biological control, Amblyseius largoensis, Predation, Polyphagotarsonemus latus |
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