supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32150410366,31972338,and32372639);the earmarked fund for China Agriculture Research System(CARS-02-26);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFD1400700);the Special Grant of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2022T150712)。
The mirid bug Apolygus lucorum(Hemiptera:Miridae)is a polyphagous pest that affects a wide range of host plants.Its control remains challenging mainly due to its rapid reproduction,necessitating an understanding of se...
Insect source-sink dynamics are vital to ecologically intensive pest management. Maintaining sink plant hosts,or "trap crops",and destroying alternate hosts or breeding places adjacent to the field crop are effective ...
This research is supported by grants from the Special Fund for Agroscientific Research in the Public Interest (Nos. 201103012, 201103022, 201303024), National Ba- sic Research Program of China (No. 2013CB 127600), the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing (No. 6112013), the special Foundation for Scientific Research (No. 2012FY 111100) and the National Natural Science Foun- dation of China (Nos. 1061160186, 31111140015).
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We thank the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico(CNPq,Brazil)and Fundacao de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais(FAPEMIG,Brazil)for supporting our research.
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