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- Title
AC–DC electropenetrography: fundamentals, controversies, and perspectives for arthropod pest management.
- Authors
Backus, Elaine A; Guedes, Raul Narciso C; Reif, Kathryn E
- Abstract
Studying the intimate association of arthropods with their physical substrate is both important and challenging. It is important because substrate is a key determinant for organism fitness; challenging because the intricacies of this association are dynamic, and difficult to record and resolve. The advent of electropenetrography (EPG) and subsequent developments allowed researchers to overcome this challenge. Nonetheless, EPG research has been historically restricted to piercing–sucking hemipteran plant pests. Recently, its potential use has been greatly broadened for additional pests with instrument advances. Thus, blood‐feeding arthropods and chewing feeders, as well as non‐feeding behaviors like oviposition by both pests and parasitoids, are novel new targets for EPG research, with critical consequences for integrated pest management. EPG can explain mechanisms of crop damage, plant or animal pathogen transmission, and the effects of insecticides, antifeedants, repellents, or transgenic plants and animals, on specific behaviors of damage or transmission. This review broadly covers the principles and development of EPG technology, emphasizing controversies and challenges remaining with suggested research to overcome them. In addition, it summarizes 60+ years of basic and applied EPG research, and previews future directions for pest management. The goal is to stimulate new applications for this unique enabling technology. Published 2020. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.
- Subjects
PEST control; ARTHROPOD pests; PLANT parasites; PHYTOPATHOGENIC microorganisms; TRANSGENIC animals; INTEGRATED pest control; BIOLOGICAL weed control
- Publication
Pest Management Science, 2021, Vol 77, Issue 3, p1132
- ISSN
1526-498X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ps.6087