This is why we need biocontrol research
November 11, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This is why we need biocontrol research
🌿 Seeking postdoctoral opportunities!
PhD in Ecology (Hokkaido University) on host range expansion and microbiome of an invasive aphid. Interested in plant–insect interactions, invasion biology, biocontrol.
Leads or intros welcome! Reposts appreciated 🙏
#Postdoc #Ecology #entomology
PhD in Ecology (Hokkaido University) on host range expansion and microbiome of an invasive aphid. Interested in plant–insect interactions, invasion biology, biocontrol.
Leads or intros welcome! Reposts appreciated 🙏
#Postdoc #Ecology #entomology
November 10, 2026 at 8:53 AM
🌿 Seeking postdoctoral opportunities!
PhD in Ecology (Hokkaido University) on host range expansion and microbiome of an invasive aphid. Interested in plant–insect interactions, invasion biology, biocontrol.
Leads or intros welcome! Reposts appreciated 🙏
#Postdoc #Ecology #entomology
PhD in Ecology (Hokkaido University) on host range expansion and microbiome of an invasive aphid. Interested in plant–insect interactions, invasion biology, biocontrol.
Leads or intros welcome! Reposts appreciated 🙏
#Postdoc #Ecology #entomology
FYI: Study Finds 51% of French Winegrowers Use Biocontrol Against Diseases #WineGrowers #Biocontrol #SustainableAgriculture #FrenchWine #OrganicFarming
Study Finds 51% of French Winegrowers Use Biocontrol Against Diseases
The survey put pest-control use at 32%, suggesting biocontrol has moved beyond niche use in French perennial crops after excluding copper and sulfur
www.vinetur.com
November 9, 2026 at 2:57 PM
FYI: Study Finds 51% of French Winegrowers Use Biocontrol Against Diseases #WineGrowers #Biocontrol #SustainableAgriculture #FrenchWine #OrganicFarming
By uncovering a novel “internal-consumption” mycoparasitic mode, Shuang Zhou et al. expand our understanding of the ecological diversity of biocontrol fungi and provides a powerful genetic toolset for future functional genomic research: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-04-26-0132-R
November 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
By uncovering a novel “internal-consumption” mycoparasitic mode, Shuang Zhou et al. expand our understanding of the ecological diversity of biocontrol fungi and provides a powerful genetic toolset for future functional genomic research: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-04-26-0132-R
📢 Updated preprint!
"Multi-target biocontrol by avocado fungal endophytes and their metabolites"
Now including the untargeted metabolomic analysis of Purpureocillium and Trichoderna strains. 🍄🥑
Great work from our PhD student Daniel Sánchez Hernández!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
"Multi-target biocontrol by avocado fungal endophytes and their metabolites"
Now including the untargeted metabolomic analysis of Purpureocillium and Trichoderna strains. 🍄🥑
Great work from our PhD student Daniel Sánchez Hernández!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Multi-target biocontrol by avocado fungal endophytes and their metabolites
Background: Endophytic fungi can contribute to host defense against pests and pathogens through insecticidal and/or antifungal activity. Here, we evaluated the multi-target biocontrol potential of 11 ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 12, 2026 at 2:28 PM
📢 Updated preprint!
"Multi-target biocontrol by avocado fungal endophytes and their metabolites"
Now including the untargeted metabolomic analysis of Purpureocillium and Trichoderna strains. 🍄🥑
Great work from our PhD student Daniel Sánchez Hernández!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
"Multi-target biocontrol by avocado fungal endophytes and their metabolites"
Now including the untargeted metabolomic analysis of Purpureocillium and Trichoderna strains. 🍄🥑
Great work from our PhD student Daniel Sánchez Hernández!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
✍️🫒 #OurNewPreprint published in #SSRN - Building biocontrol backwards from effective mechanisms: A forward-looking framework for plant health management
🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#XylellaFastidiosa #Biocontrol #Metagenomics
@dbszane.bsky.social
🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#XylellaFastidiosa #Biocontrol #Metagenomics
@dbszane.bsky.social
Building biocontrol backwards from effective mechanisms: A forward-looking framework for plant health management
The development of microbial biological control agents for managing plant disease has traditionally relied on large-scale screening for antagonistic activity, w
papers.ssrn.com
November 9, 2026 at 10:50 AM
✍️🫒 #OurNewPreprint published in #SSRN - Building biocontrol backwards from effective mechanisms: A forward-looking framework for plant health management
🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#XylellaFastidiosa #Biocontrol #Metagenomics
@dbszane.bsky.social
🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#XylellaFastidiosa #Biocontrol #Metagenomics
@dbszane.bsky.social
It can be killed with several repeat, close to the ground cuttings in one season too, but in the end the most efficient way is to mechanically or chemically address every single plant, which is not efficient at all. Maybe one day we'll have a biocontrol that is less work.
November 11, 2026 at 10:53 PM
It can be killed with several repeat, close to the ground cuttings in one season too, but in the end the most efficient way is to mechanically or chemically address every single plant, which is not efficient at all. Maybe one day we'll have a biocontrol that is less work.
How do you stop a tree-killing bark #beetle without chemicals? Bring in a specialist that feeds on it.
Releasing the predatory beetle Rhizophagus grandis across Europe & Asia remains the only fully successful classical biocontrol of a bark beetle #pest.
Full article: doi.org/10.3897/neob...
Releasing the predatory beetle Rhizophagus grandis across Europe & Asia remains the only fully successful classical biocontrol of a bark beetle #pest.
Full article: doi.org/10.3897/neob...
November 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM
How do you stop a tree-killing bark #beetle without chemicals? Bring in a specialist that feeds on it.
Releasing the predatory beetle Rhizophagus grandis across Europe & Asia remains the only fully successful classical biocontrol of a bark beetle #pest.
Full article: doi.org/10.3897/neob...
Releasing the predatory beetle Rhizophagus grandis across Europe & Asia remains the only fully successful classical biocontrol of a bark beetle #pest.
Full article: doi.org/10.3897/neob...
Two Pellioditis biocontrol nematode species infect Ariolimax columbianus, the Pacific
Malacopathogenic nematodes offer an effective biological control soil health [4]. Insufficient knowle...
journals.plos.org/plosone/a...
Via: Antonie.ai
#SoilHealth #Nematodes #Nematology #Biodiversity
Malacopathogenic nematodes offer an effective biological control soil health [4]. Insufficient knowle...
journals.plos.org/plosone/a...
Via: Antonie.ai
#SoilHealth #Nematodes #Nematology #Biodiversity
November 12, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Two Pellioditis biocontrol nematode species infect Ariolimax columbianus, the Pacific
Malacopathogenic nematodes offer an effective biological control soil health [4]. Insufficient knowle...
journals.plos.org/plosone/a...
Via: Antonie.ai
#SoilHealth #Nematodes #Nematology #Biodiversity
Malacopathogenic nematodes offer an effective biological control soil health [4]. Insufficient knowle...
journals.plos.org/plosone/a...
Via: Antonie.ai
#SoilHealth #Nematodes #Nematology #Biodiversity
🤔How do you stop a tree-killing bark beetle without chemicals? Bring in a specialist that feeds on it.
Releasing the predatory beetle Rhizophagus grandis across Europe & Asia remains the only fully successful classical #biocontrol of a bark #beetle #pest.
Full article: doi.org/10.3897/neob...
Releasing the predatory beetle Rhizophagus grandis across Europe & Asia remains the only fully successful classical #biocontrol of a bark #beetle #pest.
Full article: doi.org/10.3897/neob...
November 9, 2026 at 8:44 AM
🤔How do you stop a tree-killing bark beetle without chemicals? Bring in a specialist that feeds on it.
Releasing the predatory beetle Rhizophagus grandis across Europe & Asia remains the only fully successful classical #biocontrol of a bark #beetle #pest.
Full article: doi.org/10.3897/neob...
Releasing the predatory beetle Rhizophagus grandis across Europe & Asia remains the only fully successful classical #biocontrol of a bark #beetle #pest.
Full article: doi.org/10.3897/neob...
STUDY SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Infected host responses across entomopathogenic nematode phylogeny
🔗 Check out the full study 👉 buff.ly/OaVBASj
#nematodes #biocontrol #pheromones
🔗 Check out the full study 👉 buff.ly/OaVBASj
#nematodes #biocontrol #pheromones
November 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
STUDY SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Infected host responses across entomopathogenic nematode phylogeny
🔗 Check out the full study 👉 buff.ly/OaVBASj
#nematodes #biocontrol #pheromones
🔗 Check out the full study 👉 buff.ly/OaVBASj
#nematodes #biocontrol #pheromones
The only one I'll accept is Shelob, she's just a big old lump doing goblin biocontrol for centuries
November 3, 2026 at 1:57 AM
The only one I'll accept is Shelob, she's just a big old lump doing goblin biocontrol for centuries
Stress-adapted endophytic Pseudomonas strains isolated from unmanaged lupin promote potato growth and suppress verticillium wilt through complementary biocontrol and plant growth-promoting mechanisms https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.06.764942v1
November 9, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Stress-adapted endophytic Pseudomonas strains isolated from unmanaged lupin promote potato growth and suppress verticillium wilt through complementary biocontrol and plant growth-promoting mechanisms https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.06.764942v1
Nieuwe techniek voor biologische bestrijding suzuki-fruitvlieg #fruitteelt #kersen #biocontrol #biobeheer
www.defruitteeltkrant.nl/nieuwe-techn...
www.defruitteeltkrant.nl/nieuwe-techn...
Nieuwe techniek voor biologische bestrijding suzuki-fruitvlieg – De Fruitteelkrant
www.defruitteeltkrant.nl
November 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Nieuwe techniek voor biologische bestrijding suzuki-fruitvlieg #fruitteelt #kersen #biocontrol #biobeheer
www.defruitteeltkrant.nl/nieuwe-techn...
www.defruitteeltkrant.nl/nieuwe-techn...
#VegetableRes
Root-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa P1202 suppresses Ralstonia wilt in pepper through direct antagonism and WRKY33/MPK3 defense activation, while promoting growth.
Details: https://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/vegres-0026-0024
#BacterialWilt #Biocontrol #PlantDefense
Root-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa P1202 suppresses Ralstonia wilt in pepper through direct antagonism and WRKY33/MPK3 defense activation, while promoting growth.
Details: https://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/vegres-0026-0024
#BacterialWilt #Biocontrol #PlantDefense
November 11, 2026 at 12:55 AM
#VegetableRes
Root-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa P1202 suppresses Ralstonia wilt in pepper through direct antagonism and WRKY33/MPK3 defense activation, while promoting growth.
Details: https://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/vegres-0026-0024
#BacterialWilt #Biocontrol #PlantDefense
Root-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa P1202 suppresses Ralstonia wilt in pepper through direct antagonism and WRKY33/MPK3 defense activation, while promoting growth.
Details: https://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/vegres-0026-0024
#BacterialWilt #Biocontrol #PlantDefense
Stress-adapted endophytic Pseudomonas strains isolated from unmanaged lupin promote potato growth and suppress verticillium wilt through complementary biocontrol and plant growth-promoting mechanisms https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.06.764942v1
November 9, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Stress-adapted endophytic Pseudomonas strains isolated from unmanaged lupin promote potato growth and suppress verticillium wilt through complementary biocontrol and plant growth-promoting mechanisms https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.06.764942v1
RRIDs were included in this in Pest Management Science paper. We value the author's support of reproducibility. #STMpublishing #BetterScience #methodsmatter
Enhanced biocontrol traits of Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae reared on the alternative host Drosophila virilis
Read the full paper: Enhanced biocontrol traits of Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae reared on the alternative host Drosophila virilis
doi.org
November 8, 2026 at 8:00 AM
RRIDs were included in this in Pest Management Science paper. We value the author's support of reproducibility. #STMpublishing #BetterScience #methodsmatter
La mitad del viñedo francés usa biocontrol frente a enfermedades #biocontrol #viñedos #vino #agricultura #sostenibilidad
La mitad del viñedo francés usa biocontrol frente a enfermedades
El estudio sitúa en 32% el uso frente a plagas sin incluir cobre ni azufre
www.vinetur.com
November 4, 2026 at 2:56 PM
La mitad del viñedo francés usa biocontrol frente a enfermedades #biocontrol #viñedos #vino #agricultura #sostenibilidad
Heavy infestations may cause widespread defoliation and loss of growth. Two hyperparasites - Closterocerus chamaeleon (Eulophidae), and Stethynium ophelimi (Mymaridae) are proving very efficient biocontrol agents around the Med.
Dewars Pool, N. of Toodyay, WA
Dewars Pool, N. of Toodyay, WA
November 9, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Heavy infestations may cause widespread defoliation and loss of growth. Two hyperparasites - Closterocerus chamaeleon (Eulophidae), and Stethynium ophelimi (Mymaridae) are proving very efficient biocontrol agents around the Med.
Dewars Pool, N. of Toodyay, WA
Dewars Pool, N. of Toodyay, WA
First report of leaf vein death caused by #Pantoea ananatis on rice in #Jiangsu Province, #China
🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2026.02.020
🎓 Xian Chen et al.
#biocontrol #rice #PlantPathology #PlantProtection #news #plantdisease #ricedisease #FirstReport
🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2026.02.020
🎓 Xian Chen et al.
#biocontrol #rice #PlantPathology #PlantProtection #news #plantdisease #ricedisease #FirstReport
November 9, 2026 at 3:11 AM
First report of leaf vein death caused by #Pantoea ananatis on rice in #Jiangsu Province, #China
🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2026.02.020
🎓 Xian Chen et al.
#biocontrol #rice #PlantPathology #PlantProtection #news #plantdisease #ricedisease #FirstReport
🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2026.02.020
🎓 Xian Chen et al.
#biocontrol #rice #PlantPathology #PlantProtection #news #plantdisease #ricedisease #FirstReport
In our paper, we explored win-win opportunities for wildlife and farmers by analyzing how shade-tree canopy structure and landscape complexity jointly influence biodiversity, biocontrol and pollination services, pest and disease incidence, microclimate, soil fertility, and yield in the agroforests
November 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
In our paper, we explored win-win opportunities for wildlife and farmers by analyzing how shade-tree canopy structure and landscape complexity jointly influence biodiversity, biocontrol and pollination services, pest and disease incidence, microclimate, soil fertility, and yield in the agroforests
The payoff is speed: up to 9 days saved per work site versus waiting for lab culture, which cuts cost, disruption and carbon. It is now official best practice for French pipe contractors. Watch the conversation: youtu.be/GuWrnyZbEno?...
ATP Testing Cuts Three Days From Network Interventions | Cedric Debonte, GL Biocontrol
YouTube video by Isle Global
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November 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
The payoff is speed: up to 9 days saved per work site versus waiting for lab culture, which cuts cost, disruption and carbon. It is now official best practice for French pipe contractors. Watch the conversation: youtu.be/GuWrnyZbEno?...