Abstract
The sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci MEAM1, is a pest known to significantly impact tomato development and yields through direct damage and virus transmission. To manage this pest, the current study compared the effectiveness of various insecticide rotations. Field trials included rotations involving synthetic insecticides, biochemicals, and microbial agents, applied according to their highest labeled concentrations. The results indicated that while standard synthetic insecticides consistently reduced whitefly egg and nymph counts significantly, microbial biopesticide rotations also achieved reductions, although less consistently. This study demonstrated that while traditional chemical treatments remain highly effective, microbial biopesticides containing Beauveria bassiana and Cordyceps javanica present a viable alternative to manage MEAM1 in tomato fields. The data generated in this study provided baseline information for further investigations to determine the potential for optimizing integrated pest management (IPM) and insecticide resistance management (IRM) strategies by incorporating microbial biopesticides in rotations with a variety of modes of action to sustainably manage B. tabaci MEAM1 populations in agricultural settings.
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Claims 4
Claim · model-written summary
Standard synthetic insecticides consistently and significantly reduced whitefly egg and nymph counts.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume2 - Treatment
- standard synthetic insecticidese1
- Interactor
- whiteflye1pest
- Outcome
- egg and nymph countse1
- Direction
- reducede1
- Qualifier
- consistentlye1
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Verbatim
e1“standard synthetic insecticides consistently reduced whitefly egg and nymph counts significantly”
e2“in tomato fields”
Claim · model-written summary
Microbial biopesticide rotations also achieved reductions, though less consistently.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume2
- Treatment
- microbial biopesticide rotationse3
- Outcome
- reductionse3
- Direction
- achieved reductionse3
- Qualifier
- less consistentlye3
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Verbatim
e2“in tomato fields”
e3“microbial biopesticide rotations also achieved reductions, although less consistently”
Claim · model-written summary
Traditional chemical treatments remained highly effective against whitefly in tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume2
- Treatment
- traditional chemical treatmentse4
- Outcome
- highly effectivee4
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Verbatim
e2“in tomato fields”
e4“while traditional chemical treatments remain highly effective”
Claim · model-written summary
Microbial biopesticides containing Beauveria bassiana and Cordyceps javanica are a viable alternative to manage Bemisia tabaci MEAM1 in tomato (authors' recommendation).
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume5
- Treatment
- microbial biopesticides containing Beauveria bassiana and Cordyceps javanicae5
- Interactor
- MEAM1e5pest
- Second interactor
- Beauveria bassiana
Beauveria bassianae5biocontrol_agent - Outcome
- viable alternativee5
- Qualifier
- Cordyceps javanicae5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e5“microbial biopesticides containing Beauveria bassiana and Cordyceps javanica present a viable alternative to manage MEAM1 in tomato fields”
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