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Public perception and knowledge regarding BC is an understudied subject despite its relevance for the application of this management alternative. We aimed to assess the knowledge and perception of BC of IAP among European professionals compared with their peers from other continents. To this end we conducted an online survey including multiple choice and open questions among over 700 people professionally engaged with managing the natural environment, of which approximately half were from Europe (EU) and the others from outside (non-EU). We assessed relationships between the geographical location of the respondents and their knowledge, and perceptions of BC of weeds versus BC of invertebrate pests. We found that respondents' location influenced both perceptions and knowledge of BC for weeds. Compared to non-EU respondents, EU professionals showed less appreciation for BC (e.g., regarding safety, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness), and perceived it as a riskier method, particularly in the case of practitioners and researchers. More profoundly insect pest BC tended to be considered less safe than weed BC for non-EU respondents. Confidence in weed BC as a method, as well as in the validity of the associated pre-release risk assessments, strongly increased with the level of expertise in weed BC. While a much higher proportion of non-EU respondents were correctly aware of the presence/absence of BC in their own countries and identified successful examples of BC accurately, both groups of respondents were similarly aware of unsuccessful BC examples, including BC agents against animals, stressing the bias of EU respondents towards examples of BC failure. The appreciation of weed BC in Europe could be elevated by a combination of increasing knowledge of the technique and pre-release risk assessment and promoting successful examples of weed BC, which may bring major benefits for the management of IAP across the region.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Public perception", "Weed Control", "Plant Weeds", "Environment", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Europe", "Attitude", "13. 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Pouzar fungal treatment (dilutions 1:100, 1:200, 1:400) and control (cutting only) was studied for three\uffc2\uffa0years. The efficacy of the fungal treatment was defined as capability to prevent sprouting of birch (Betula pendula Roth. and B. pubescens Ehrh.). The fungal treatment resulted in higher stump mortality and lower number of sprouts but it did not have a clear effect on the maximum height of stump sprouts. However, mortalities obtained in this study (34.1%, 26.8%, and 25.6% for dilutions 1:100, 1:200, and 1:400, respectively) were notably lower compared to previous studies which indicate that the accuracy of the spreading mechanism was not satisfactory. We conclude that it is possible to decrease stump sprouting with the fully mechanized fungal treatment but putting this implementation into practice needs more testing to increase efficacy.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "vegetation management", "biological control", "stump sprouts", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "silviculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Betula spp", "ta4112", "01 natural sciences", "mechanization"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10526-019-09971-z.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-019-09971-z"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/BioControl", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s10526-019-09971-z", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s10526-019-09971-z", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s10526-019-09971-z"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-09-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.fm.2020.103583", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:16:19Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-06-27", "title": "Combined application of antagonistic Wickerhamomyces anomalus BS91 strain and Cynara cardunculus L. leaf extracts for the control of postharvest decay of citrus fruit", "description": "Combined use of biocontrol agents and plant extracts can be considered a viable and promising strategy for protecting plant tissues with different synergistic mechanisms of action that improve the antimicrobial activity of the mixtures. Treatments of citrus fruits with Wickerhamomyces anomalus BS91 have been previously reported as effective measures to reduce the incidence of green mold caused by Penicillium digitatum. On the opposite, the knowledge of the antifungal activity of cultivated cardoon (Cynara cardunculus L. var. altilis DC.) leaf extract, vegetable widespread in some Mediterranean areas, is still very limited. In this study, experimental trials were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness in vitro of leaf aqueous, methanolic and ethanolic extracts of C. cardunculus against seven fungal pathogens responsible for considerable food losses in the postharvest stage. In addition, biocontrol yeast W. anomalus BS91 and the three C. cardunculus extracts were tested in vivo both as a single treatment and in mixture, against Penicillium digitatum on 'Tarocco' oranges and 'Femminello' lemons. The combination of W. anomalus BS91 and leaf ethanolic extract reduced with the highest efficacy the incidence and severity of green mold on orange and lemon fruits with respect to the control, and was more effective than treatment with antagonistic yeast or leaf extracts applied alone. Incidence and severity of citrus decay were more consistently reduced when mixtures were applied 24\u00a0h before the inoculation of the pathogen, thus suggesting the relevance of preventive treatments. The mixtures of antagonistic W. anomalus BS91 and ethanolic leaf extract were more effective in controlling green mold decay on oranges than on lemons. These results indicate that biocontrol agents and leaf extracts, used in appropriate combination, can provide a stronger protection than when used singularly. However, compatibility between microbial antagonist and antimicrobial extract should be preliminary verified.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. 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However, it is essential to ensure that microbial-based products, such as BCAs, are utilised in a manner that does not harm soil quality and fertility while decreasing reliance on synthetic pesticides. To accomplish this, it is crucial to monitor the fate and persistence of bioinoculants in the soil, which is essential for optimising their application over time, as well as for regulatory and commercial purposes and environmental risk assessment. A qPCR detection method utilising TaqMan chemistry is proposed, which has demonstrated high specificity and sensitivity in detecting Trichoderma asperellum, a common BCA species, in soil. The primers and probe were designed based on the \u03b2tubulin2 gene. The TaqMan-based assay was applied and validated on soils where tomatoes and strawberries were grown after a previous application of T. asperellum FC80 strain over three years. The TaqMan-based assay was able to detect the target strain accurately, meeting the stringent requirements for commercial and regulatory applications. Significance and impact of the study: The TaqMan assay developed here has the potential to impact the agricultural sector significantly. It can be used for regulatory, commercial, and scientific purposes to track, monitor, and determine the presence and fate of T. asperellum under field crop conditions, thereby contributing to adopting more sustainable and efficient agricultural practices.", "keywords": ["traceability qPCR", "Soil", "TaqMan Assay", "S", "QH301-705.5", "Fungi Trichoderma asperellum", "Agriculture", "Biology (General)", "Biological control agent"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2025.105723"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Biological%20Control", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.biocontrol.2025.105723", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.biocontrol.2025.105723", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2025.105723"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108321", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:16:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-10-29", "title": "A framework to estimate the contribution of weeds to the delivery of ecosystem (dis)services in agricultural landscapes", "description": "There is a pressing need for indicators and methods to quantify the provision of ecosystem services as a prerequisite to identify management options that optimize trade-offs between services. Arable weeds provide multiple services and are thus a good model to evaluate such trade\u2013offs. This flora provides trophic resources (flowers or seeds) that support pollinators and pest natural enemies (pollination and pest control services) but can also be harmful for crop production (disservice). To date, few indicators are available to quantify the contribution of weeds to ecosystem services or their harmfulness, and no indicators account for intraspecific variability in weed traits that result from contrasting growing conditions, notably the location of weeds within fields (field edge vs field core) and crop type. Here, we developed nine proxies for potential weed harmfulness (competition, harvest difficulties and future weed infestations) and weed contributions to resources provision to pollinators (bees, bumblebees and hoverflies) and pest natural enemies (carabid beetles, birds and parasitoid wasps). These nine proxies accounted for individual weed plant response to growing conditions (combination of within-field location by crop type) for 155 weed species, resulting in 967 unique situations (combinations of species by within-field locations by crop types). Apart from harvest difficulties, all proxies were positively correlated, i.e. harmfulness increased when services increased. Weed plants located on field edges had greater contributions to all proxies than those located in field cores, especially in cereal crops. We identified that small weed species with short life cycles and low competitiveness, presented the optimum proxy combination, i.e. high services and low harmfulness. The development of these proxies and the proposed framework provide new avenues for assessing trade-offs between multiple ecosystem services at different temporal (crop sequence) and spatial scales (landscape).", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "0106 biological sciences", "2. 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Arable weeds are an interesting model as they can impact negatively crop production but also contribute to maintain pollination and pest control services. Here, we assessed weed multifunctionality using weed data recorded within a small landscape, in the field edge and field core of 97 fields over six consecutive years. We detected a general positive correlation between harmfulness and services provision, at the field-scale and at the landscape scale. At the field scale, the flora of field edges strongly contributed to the delivery of (dis)services; some fields delivered interesting trade-offs, and this was only weakly explained by the crop management strategy. At the landscape scale, we explored through scenarii the impact of changes in the composition (proportional cover of the different crop management strategies) and structure (field size, i.e. length of field edges) of the land-use mosaics on weed multifunctionality. Land\u2013use mosaics offering interesting trade-offs were for the most part characterised by an even representation of the different crop management strategies. Small-grained landscapes did not offer better trade\u2013offs than the current landscape structure, but slightly improved the inter-annual stability of services. Our results support the idea that promoting the co-existence of various cropping strategies within landscape is a good option to reconcile the positive and negative impacts of weeds.", "keywords": ["[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "0106 biological sciences", "pollination", "multifunctionality", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "biological control", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "crop yield loss", "simulation", "01 natural sciences", "630", "pareto frontier"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104589"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Landscape%20and%20Urban%20Planning", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104589", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104589", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104589"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/ismej.2016.169", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:17:53Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-01-03", "title": "The Pseudomonas putida T6SS is a plant warden against phytopathogens", "description": "Abstract                <p>Bacterial type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) are molecular weapons designed to deliver toxic effectors into prey cells. These nanomachines have an important role in inter-bacterial competition and provide advantages to T6SS active strains in polymicrobial environments. Here we analyze the genome of the biocontrol agent Pseudomonas putida KT2440 and identify three T6SS gene clusters (K1-, K2- and K3-T6SS). Besides, 10 T6SS effector\uffe2\uff80\uff93immunity pairs were found, including putative nucleases and pore-forming colicins. We show that the K1-T6SS is a potent antibacterial device, which secretes a toxic Rhs-type effector Tke2. Remarkably, P. putida eradicates a broad range of bacteria in a K1-T6SS-dependent manner, including resilient phytopathogens, which demonstrates that the T6SS is instrumental to empower P. putida to fight against competitors. Furthermore, we observed a drastically reduced necrosis on the leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana during co-infection with P. putida and Xanthomonas campestris. Such protection is dependent on the activity of the P. putida T6SS. Many routes have been explored to develop biocontrol agents capable of manipulating the microbial composition of the rhizosphere and phyllosphere. Here we unveil a novel mechanism for plant biocontrol, which needs to be considered for the selection of plant wardens whose mission is to prevent phytopathogen infections.</p>", "keywords": ["PROTEIN SECRETION", "Nicotiana", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION", "05 Environmental Sciences", "VIBRIO-CHOLERAE", "Environmental Sciences & Ecology", "VI SECRETION SYSTEM", "Xanthomonas campestris", "Microbiology", "03 medical and health sciences", "Bacterial Proteins", "10 Technology", "Plant Diseases", "0303 health sciences", "Science & Technology", "Ecology", "Pseudomonas putida", "ROOT MICROBIOME", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Bacterial", "06 Biological Sciences", "Type VI Secretion Systems", "GENOMIC ANALYSIS", "Biological Control Agents", "ESCHERICHIA-COLI", "EFFECTORS", "IMMUNITY PROTEINS", "Original Article", "HOST-RANGE", "Life Sciences & Biomedicine"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.nature.com/articles/ismej2016169.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.169"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/The%20ISME%20Journal", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/ismej.2016.169", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/ismej.2016.169", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/ismej.2016.169"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-01-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41467-020-15586-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:17:57Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-04-21", "title": "Biological weed control to relieve millions from Ambrosia allergies in Europe", "description": "Abstract<p>Invasive alien species (IAS) can substantially affect ecosystem services and human well-being. However, quantitative assessments of their impact on human health are rare and the benefits of implementing IAS management likely to be underestimated. Here we report the effects of the allergenic plant Ambrosia artemisiifolia on public health in Europe and the potential impact of the accidentally introduced leaf beetle Ophraella communa on the number of patients and healthcare costs. We find that, prior to the establishment of O. communa, some 13.5 million persons suffered from Ambrosia-induced allergies in Europe, causing costs of Euro 7.4 billion annually. Our projections reveal that biological control of A. artemisiifolia will reduce the number of patients by approximately 2.3 million and the health costs by Euro 1.1 billion per year. Our conservative calculations indicate that the currently discussed economic costs of IAS underestimate the real costs and thus also the benefits from biological control.</p", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. 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In this study, we investigate the abundance and population structure of Metarhizium spp. in three land-use types\u2014arable land, grassland, and forest\u2014to provide detailed information on habitat selection and the factors that drive the occurrence and abundance of Metarhizium spp. in soil. At 10 sites of each land-use type, which are all part of the Swiss national soil-monitoring network (NABO), Metarhizium spp. were present at 8, 10, and 4 sites, respectively. On average, Metarhizium spp. were most abundant in grassland, followed by forest and then arable land; 349 Metarhizium isolates were collected from the 30 sites, and sequence analyses of the nuclear translation elongation factor 1\u03b1 gene, as well as microsatellite-based genotyping, revealed the presence of 13 Metarhizium brunneum, 6 Metarhizium robertsii, and 3 Metarhizium guizhouense multilocus genotypes (MLGs). With 259 isolates, M. brunneum was the most abundant species, and significant differences were detected in population structures between forested and unforested sites. Among 15 environmental factors assessed, C:N ratio, basal respiration, total carbon, organic carbon, and bulk density significantly explained the variation among the M. brunneum populations. The information gained in this study will support the selection of best-adapted isolates as biological control agents and will provide additional criteria for the adaptation or development of new pest control strategies.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "microsatellite", "QH301-705.5", "abiotic factors", "<i>M. brunneum</i>", "EF-1alpha", "biological control", "15. Life on land", "SSR", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "3. Good health", "<i>M. robertsii</i>", "forest", "03 medical and health sciences", "arable land", "grassland", "Biology (General)", "<i>M. guizhouense</i>"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/7/1380/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9071380"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms9071380", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms9071380", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms9071380"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-06-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1094/PHYTO-07-17-0255-R", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:18:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-01-31", "title": "Characterization of Argentinian Endemic Aspergillus flavus Isolates and Their Potential Use as Biocontrol Agents for Mycotoxins in Maize", "description": "<p>Maize (Zea mays L.) is a highly valuable crop in Argentina, frequently contaminated with the mycotoxins produced by Aspergillus flavus. Biocontrol products formulated with atoxigenic (nontoxic) strains of this fungal species are well known as an effective method to reduce this contamination. In the present study, 83 A. flavus isolates from two maize regions of Argentina were characterized and evaluated for their ability to produce or lack of producing mycotoxins in order to select atoxigenic strains to be used as potential biocontrol agents (BCA). All of the isolates were tested for aflatoxin and cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) production in maize kernels and a liquid culture medium. Genetic diversity of the nonaflatoxigenic isolates was evaluated by analysis of vegetative compatibility groups (VCG) and confirmation of deletions in the aflatoxin biosynthesis cluster. Eight atoxigenic isolates were compared for their ability to reduce aflatoxin and CPA contamination in maize kernels in coinoculation tests. The A. flavus population was composed of 32% aflatoxin and CPA producers and 52% CPA producers, and 16% was determined as atoxigenic. All of the aflatoxin producer isolates also produced CPA. Aflatoxin and CPA production was significantly higher in maize kernels than in liquid medium. The 57 nonaflatoxigenic strains formed six VCG, with AM1 and AM5 being the dominant groups, with a frequency of 58 and 35%, respectively. In coinoculation experiments, all of the atoxigenic strains reduced aflatoxin from 54 to 83% and CPA from 60 to 97%. Members of group AM1 showed a greater aflatoxin reduction than members of AM5 (72 versus 66%) but no differences were detected in CPA production. Here, we described for the first time atoxigenic isolates of A. flavus that show promise to be used as BCA in maize crops in Argentina. This innovating biological control approach should be considered, developed further, and used by the maize industry to preserve the quality properties and food safety of maize kernels in Argentina.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Micotoxinas", "0303 health sciences", "Argentina", "Biocontrol", "Genetic Variation", "Mycotoxins", "maize", "Zea mays", "Maize", "03 medical and health sciences", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.5", "Biological Control Agents", "13. Climate action", "Aflatoxinas", "Antibiosis", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4", "Aspergillus Flavus", "Zea Mays", "Ma\u00edz", "Aspergillus flavus", "Plant Diseases"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/PHYTO-07-17-0255-R"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-07-17-0255-R"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Phytopathology%C2%AE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1094/PHYTO-07-17-0255-R", "name": "item", "description": "10.1094/PHYTO-07-17-0255-R", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1094/PHYTO-07-17-0255-R"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1094/phyto-07-17-0255-r", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:18:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-01-31", "title": "Characterization of Argentinian EndemicAspergillus flavusIsolates and Their Potential Use as Biocontrol Agents for Mycotoxins in Maize", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Maize (Zea mays L.) is a highly valuable crop in Argentina, frequently contaminated with the mycotoxins produced by Aspergillus flavus. Biocontrol products formulated with atoxigenic (nontoxic) strains of this fungal species are well known as an effective method to reduce this contamination. In the present study, 83 A. flavus isolates from two maize regions of Argentina were characterized and evaluated for their ability to produce or lack of producing mycotoxins in order to select atoxigenic strains to be used as potential biocontrol agents (BCA). All of the isolates were tested for aflatoxin and cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) production in maize kernels and a liquid culture medium. Genetic diversity of the nonaflatoxigenic isolates was evaluated by analysis of vegetative compatibility groups (VCG) and confirmation of deletions in the aflatoxin biosynthesis cluster. Eight atoxigenic isolates were compared for their ability to reduce aflatoxin and CPA contamination in maize kernels in coinoculation tests. The A. flavus population was composed of 32% aflatoxin and CPA producers and 52% CPA producers, and 16% was determined as atoxigenic. All of the aflatoxin producer isolates also produced CPA. Aflatoxin and CPA production was significantly higher in maize kernels than in liquid medium. The 57 nonaflatoxigenic strains formed six VCG, with AM1 and AM5 being the dominant groups, with a frequency of 58 and 35%, respectively. In coinoculation experiments, all of the atoxigenic strains reduced aflatoxin from 54 to 83% and CPA from 60 to 97%. Members of group AM1 showed a greater aflatoxin reduction than members of AM5 (72 versus 66%) but no differences were detected in CPA production. Here, we described for the first time atoxigenic isolates of A. flavus that show promise to be used as BCA in maize crops in Argentina. This innovating biological control approach should be considered, developed further, and used by the maize industry to preserve the quality properties and food safety of maize kernels in Argentina.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Micotoxinas", "0303 health sciences", "Argentina", "Biocontrol", "Genetic Variation", "Mycotoxins", "maize", "Zea mays", "Maize", "03 medical and health sciences", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.5", "Biological Control Agents", "13. Climate action", "Aflatoxinas", "Antibiosis", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4", "Aspergillus Flavus", "Zea Mays", "Ma\u00edz", "Aspergillus flavus", "Plant Diseases"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/PHYTO-07-17-0255-R"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1094/phyto-07-17-0255-r"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Phytopathology%C2%AE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1094/phyto-07-17-0255-r", "name": "item", "description": "10.1094/phyto-07-17-0255-r", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1094/phyto-07-17-0255-r"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0213273", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:19:53Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-03-26", "title": "Epicoccum layuense a potential biological control agent of esca-associated fungi in grapevine", "description": "Epicoccum is a genus of ascomycetes often associated with the mycobiome of grapevines (Vitis vinifera). Epicoccum spp. are found in the soil, phyllosphere, as well as in the wood, where they interact both with the plant and with other endophytes and pathogens. Wood pathogens involved in the esca disease complex, a grapevine trunk disease, are particularly concerning in viticulture, as current control strategies have proven unsatisfactory. This study investigated the interaction among Epicoccum spp. and three esca-associated fungi, with the aim of establishing whether they are suitable candidates for biological control.A screening conducted in vitro, by means of dual culture, revealed that all tested Epicoccum spp. inhibited the growth of pathogens Phaeomoniella chlamydospora and Fomitiporia mediterranea, while only some of them inhibited Phaeoacremonium minimum. Epicoccum layuense E24, identified as the most efficient antagonist, was tested in rooted grapevine cuttings of cultivars Cabernet Sauvignon and Touriga Nacional, under greenhouse conditions, against P. chlamydospora and P. minimum. This study revealed that the inoculation of E. layuense E24 produced a successful colonization of the wood of grapevines; in addition it did not impair the growth of the plants or induce the appearance of symptoms in leaves or in wood. Moreover, grapevines colonized by E. layuense E24 showed a considerable decrease in the wood symptomatology caused by the inoculated pathogens (by 31-82%, depending on the pathogen/grapevine cultivar), as well as a reduction in their frequency of re-isolation (60-74%).Our findings suggest that E. layuense E24 is a promising candidate for its application in biological control, due to its antagonistic interaction with some esca-associated fungal pathogens.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "control agent", "Science", "Q", "R", "Wood", "01 natural sciences", "grapevine", "Epicoccum layuense", "Ascomycota", "Biological Control Agents", "esca-associated fungi", "Medicine", "Vitis", "Research Article", "Plant Diseases"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213273"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLOS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0213273", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0213273", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0213273"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-03-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1534/g3.119.400716", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:19:59Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-01-10", "title": "Whole Genome Sequencing and Comparative Genomics of Two Nematicidal Bacillus Strains Reveals a Wide Range of Possible Virulence Factors", "description": "Abstract                <p>Bacillus firmus nematicidal bacterial strains are used to control plant parasitic nematode infestation of crops in agricultural production. Proteases are presumed to be the primary nematode virulence factors in nematicidal B. firmus degrading the nematode cuticle and other organs. We determined and compared the whole genome sequences of two nematicidal strains. Comparative genomics with a particular focus on possible virulence determinants revealed a wider range of possible virulence factors in a B. firmus isolate from a commercial bionematicide and a wild type Bacillus sp. isolate with nematicidal activity. The resulting 4.6 Mb B. firmus I-1582 and 5.3 Mb Bacillus sp. ZZV12-4809 genome assemblies contain respectively 18 and 19 homologs to nematode-virulent proteases, two nematode-virulent chitinase homologs in ZZV12-4809 and 28 and 36 secondary metabolite biosynthetic clusters, projected to encode antibiotics, small peptides, toxins and siderophores. The results of this study point to the genetic capability of B. firmus and related species for nematode virulence through a range of direct and indirect mechanisms.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Whole Genome Sequencing", "complete genomes", "Virulence Factors", "Antinematodal Agents", "virulence factors", "bacillus firmus", "biological control", "Bacillus", "bioinformatics", "Genomics", "QH426-470", "Genome Report", "3. Good health", "Bacterial Proteins", "Drug Resistance", " Bacterial", "Genetics", "BACILLUS FIRMUS", " COMPLETE GENOMES", " BIOINFORMATICS", " BIOLOGICAL CONTROL", " NEMATICIDAL ACTIVITY", " VIRULENCE FACTORS", "Bacillus firmus", "nematicidal activity", "Genome", " Bacterial"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://academic.oup.com/g3journal/article-pdf/10/3/881/38825647/g3journal0881.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400716"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/G3%20Genes%7CGenomes%7CGenetics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1534/g3.119.400716", "name": "item", "description": "10.1534/g3.119.400716", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1534/g3.119.400716"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1564/v31_aug_02", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:20:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-09-05", "title": "IWMPRAISE \u2013 An EU Horizon 2020 Project Providing Integrated Weed Management Solutions to European Farmers", "description": "<p>IWMPRAISE is the first EU Framework Research project focusing solely on weed management. Thirty-eight partners in eight European countries are working together on developing integrated weed management strategies for agricultural and horticultural crops. Per Kudsk, the coordinator of  IWMPRAISE, and the work package leaders present the project, the on-going studies and some of the early outputs. Weeds are ubiquitous and cause substantial yield losses across all arable and horticultural systems. Currently, the reliance on herbicides is very high in conventional farming systems  and in many European countries herbicides are the single most used group of pesticides (https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=aei_fm_salpest09&amp;lang=en). There are several reasons for the high herbicide use, such as lack of threshold-based spraying decisions and lack  of any single sufficiently effective, readily applicable, cost-effective non-chemical method. Nonetheless, two factors are driving an immediate need to change weed control practices in conventional farming: the rapidly increasing problem of herbicide resistance, exacerbated by the fact that  no new herbicide sites of action have been marketed since the early 1980s, and the expectation that many of the currently used herbicides will be withdrawn from the EU market as they do not meet the human and environmental toxicity criteria set out in EU Regulation 1109/2009. In addition to  these two immediate concerns, it has also been shown that herbicides have partly been responsible for recent declines in farmland biodiversity and hence a negative impact on the associated ecosystem services. The over-reliance on chemical control of weeds has highlighted the need for Integrated  Weed Management (IWM) strategies that combine non-chemical management options that reduce either weed density or competition with the crop.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Non-chemical weed control", "Cultural weed control", "Herbicides", "13. Climate action", "Biological control", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biological control; Cultural weed control; Herbicides; Non-chemical weed control; Soil tillage", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil tillage"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1564/v31_aug_02"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Outlooks%20on%20Pest%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1564/v31_aug_02", "name": "item", "description": "10.1564/v31_aug_02", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1564/v31_aug_02"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.18174/121542", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:20:16Z", "type": "Report", "created": "2024-10-21", "title": "Integrating biological control and botanical pesticides for management of Plutella xylostella", "description": "A large number of different plant species have natural pesticidal properties, and man has made use of this since early times. By applying plant extracts to other susceptible plant species the defence of the susceptible plant is improved. This thesisfocuseson the possibility of integrating botanical pesticides with biological control for management of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella , inSouth Africa Twenty-one species of primary parasitoids have been collected from P. xylostella in the field inSouth Africa. Biological control therefore provides a natural control technique. However, biological control alone is insufficient to provide adequate protection and requires integration with other control techniques. Plant products from the Meliaceae family have been widely used to control insect pests, particularly products from the neem tree, Azadirachta indica . The neem tree does not grow inSouth Africabut the closely related syringa tree Melia azedarach is a widespread invasive plant found throughout the country. In this thesis I make use of a commercial neem product, Neemix 4.5 \u00ae , and aqueous leaf extracts derived from the syringa tree.The neem- and syringa- derived botanical pesticides had adverse effects on the development, reproduction and survival of P. xylostella . These botanical pesticides also reduced feeding and oviposition, which are important factors in pest control. However, if a botanical pesticide is to be combined with biological control it must not hamper natural enemies. The neem- and syringa- derived botanical pesticides did not have a directly negative impact on the survival of Cotesia plutellae or Diadromus collaris two of the most abundant natural enemies found in South Africa. In a glasshouse, a significantly higher proportion of P. xylostella larvae were parasitised by C. plutellae on plants that been treated with the syringa extract than on control plants. Results from a choice test in a windtunnel showed that C. plutellae was attracted significantly more often to cabbage plants treated with the syringa extract than to the control plants. Headspace analysis revealed that treatment of cabbage with syringa extracts caused an increased emission of volatiles by the cabbage plants. This may explain the increased attraction of C. plutellae to plants that had been treated with the syringa extract. It was important to verify results from the laboratory under more realistic conditions in the field. We did not find a difference in P. xylostella infestation levels between the treated and the control plants in the field. However, the damage on plants treated with the botanical pesticides was significantly lower. Therefore, it seems that reduced feeding by P. xylostella larvae was a more important factor in the reduction of damage than the actual population density. The proportion of P. xylostella larvae that had been parasitised was significantly higher on the treated plants than on the control plants. Direct observations showed that plants that had been treated with neem- and syringa- derived pesticides were still visited by parasitoids. Therefore these botanical pesticides do not appear to interfere with parasitoid foraging. I assessed the possibility for introducing this control method to the rural farming community inSouth Africa. Syringa trees are invasive plants found throughoutSouth Africaand therefore provide a free local resource for the botanical pesticide. Results indicated that the use of syringa extracts could be introduced. Water is the main factor limiting the introduction of this technique in more arid environments. Results presented in this thesis indicate that biological control and the use of botanical pesticides derived from the neem and syringa trees can be integrated for the management ofP. xylostella. However, mammalian toxicity and residual effects still require extensive investigation before any further recommendations can be made.", "keywords": ["insect pests", "biological control agents", "botanical insecticides", "plutella xylostella", "biological control", "melia azedarach", "parasitoids", "azadirachta indica"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Charleston, D.S.", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.18174/121542"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.18174/121542", "name": "item", "description": "10.18174/121542", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.18174/121542"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-10-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.19103/as.2021.0098.15", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:20:21Z", "type": "Report", "created": "2022-05-09", "title": "Integrated weed management in grasslands", "description": "<p>This chapter describes the current status of IWM for grasslands. Its focus is on management practices available to influence transitions in a weed\uffe2\uff80\uff99s life cycle: from the soil seed bank to seedling establishment, from the seedling stage to the mature plant, and from the mature plant to the soil seed bank. We provide a conceptual approach to illustrate how management practices available in IWM affect different transitions and then discuss case studies to illustrate how weed management practices have been integrated. The chapter ends with an outlook for further improving IWM in grasslands, especially also under climate change, and for promoting its application.</p>", "keywords": ["seed bank", "thema EDItEUR::K Economics", " Finance", " Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries::KNAL Forestry industry", "herbicides", "invasive non-native plant species (INNPs)", "thema EDItEUR::T Technology", " Engineering", " Agriculture", " Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVP Pest control / plant diseases", "thema EDItEUR::T Technology", " Engineering", " Agriculture", " Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVF Sustainable agriculture", "biological control", "sward", "thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences", " Geography", " Environment", " Planning::RG Geography::RGB Physical geography and topography::RGBC Plains and grasslands"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Schaffner, Urs, M\u00fcller-Sch\u00e4rer, Heinz, L\u00fcscher, Andreas,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.19103/as.2021.0098.15"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.19103/as.2021.0098.15", "name": "item", "description": "10.19103/as.2021.0098.15", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.19103/as.2021.0098.15"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-04-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fpls.2020.535005", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:21:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-09-17", "title": "Bioaugmentation of Entomopathogenic Fungi for Sustainable Agriotes Larvae (Wireworms) Management in Maize", "description": "Soil microorganisms influence biotic and abiotic stress tolerance of crops. Most interactions between plant symbiotic and non-symbiotic soil microorganisms and plants occur in the rhizosphere and are sustained through plant exudation/rhizodeposition. Bioaugmentation, i.e., the introduction or amplification of certain plant beneficial microbes (e.g., entomopathogenic fungi) into the rhizosphere, could contribute to controlling insect crop pests and replacing chemical, environmentally unfriendly insecticides. Wireworms, the soil-burrowing larval stages of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae), are major pests of crops including maize, wheat and potatoes, worldwide. Alternative strategies for controlling wireworms are needed because several chemical pesticides used successfully in the past are being phased out because of their ecotoxicity. Therefore, virulence to Agriotes lineatus L. wireworms and plant beneficial traits of entomopathogenic fungi were investigated in a series of laboratory experiments. Tested taxa included environmentally retrieved Metarhizium brunneum Petch. (two strains), M. robertsii Bisch., Rehner & Humber (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae), and Beauveria brongniartii (Sacc.) Petch. and commercially formulated B. bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill. (Cordycipitaceae) and Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner 1915 var. kurstaki. In-house reared larvae were dipped in conidial suspension, and maize and wheat seeds were coated with fungal conidia. Metarhizium brunneum strains 1154 and 1868 significantly increased wireworm mortality. Fungi were significantly more often re-isolated from maize than wheat rhizoplanes in laboratory assays. The strains tested were rarely isolated as endophytes. Metarhizium brunneum strain 1154 stimulated wheat growth, while M. robertsii 1880 stimulated maize growth, whereas M. brunneum 1868 and others did not affect root or shoot length or plant biomass significantly in laboratory settings. Metarhizium brunneum strain 1868, re-isolated most often from maize rhizoplane, caused the highest wireworm mortality. It was further evaluated whether M. brunneum 1868 can protect maize varieties FeroXXY, LG 34.90 and Chapalu from wireworm damage and promote plant growth at field conditions. Plants of all three varieties stemming from seeds treated with conidia of M. brunneum 1868 showed significantly less wireworm damage 3 to 4 weeks after sowing (5- to 6-leaf stage) resulting in a significantly higher initial maize stand. However, only in the variety LG 34.90\u00a0a significant increase of the maize stand was observed at harvest time.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "plant\u2013microbe interaction", "biological control", "Plant culture", "Plant Science", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "biopesticide", "plant\u2013microbe\u2013insect interaction", "SB1-1110", "12. 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Climate action", "biocontrol", "rhizosphere"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.535005"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Plant%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fpls.2020.535005", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fpls.2020.535005", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fpls.2020.535005"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-09-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/agriculture12020137", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:21:14Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-01-21", "title": "Reconnecting Farmers with Nature through Agroecological Transitions: Interacting Niches and Experimentation and the Role of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Sustainability transitions in agriculture are explored through an analysis of niche initiatives within a common production system, relying on sustainable transitions, multi-level perspectives, and agroecological frameworks, and involving multi-actor, agricultural knowledge, and innovation systems (AKIS). The article focuses on how experimental niches and sustainable activities affect farmers\u2019 relationships with nature, and the reconceptualisation of the production system in which they operate, particularly where this system is embedded in less sustainable conventional or dominant regimes and landscapes. The need for fundamental changes, in the way that humans interact with nature, is widely argued for in order to achieve sustainable development, and farmers occupy a central role through participation in complex networks of agri-food systems. They have also found themselves disconnected from nature through conventional agri-industrial production practices. Four niches (biological control, ecological restoration, soil health, and ecological pond management) within the greenhouse sector of Almeria (SE Spain) are explored in a case study. Our results indicate that a farmer\u2019s interaction with nature is functional, but through agroecological practices, a deeper understanding of the ecosystems in which greenhouse landscapes are embedded may be gained. As they become more connected to nature and benefit from ecosystem services, they can transition to more sustainable agricultural systems.</p></article>", "keywords": ["agroecology", "collective action", "Agriculture (General)", "pond naturalisation", "biological control", "sustainability transitions", "agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS)", "01 natural sciences", "S1-972", "12. Responsible consumption", "human nature connectedness; sustainability transitions; agricultural innovations; multi-level perspective; agroecology; agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS); conservative agriculture practices; knowledge co-production; mediterranean horticulture; integrated pest management; greenhouses; soil health; biological control; pond naturalisation; collective action; socio-ecological systems", "mediterranean horticulture", "greenhouses", "socio-ecological systems", "11. Sustainability", "multi-level perspective", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "agricultural innovations", "2. Zero hunger", "integrated pest management", "soil health", "9. Industry and infrastructure", "knowledge co-production", "multilevel perspective", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "conservative agriculture practices", "13. 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Genome-based studies allow the prediction of the underlying mechanisms using genome mining tools and the analysis of the genes unique for a strain by implementing comparative genomics. Here, we provide the genome sequence of the strain Pseudomonas brassicacearum 3Re2-7, formerly known as P. trivialis and P. reactans, elucidate its revised taxonomic classification, experimentally verify the gene predictions by transcriptome sequencing, describe its genetic biocontrol potential and contextualize it to other known Pseudomonas biocontrol agents. The P. brassicacearum 3Re2-7 genome comprises a circular chromosome with a size of 6,738,544 bp and a GC-content of 60.83%. 6267 genes were annotated, of which 6113 were shown to be transcribed in rich medium and/or in the presence of Rhizoctonia solani. Genome mining identified genes related to biocontrol traits such as secondary metabolite and siderophore biosynthesis, plant growth promotion, inorganic phosphate solubilization, biosynthesis of lipo- and exopolysaccharides, exoproteases, volatiles and detoxification. Core genome analysis revealed, that the 3Re2-7 genome exhibits a high collinearity with the representative genome for the species, P. brassicacearum subsp. brassicacearum NFM421. Comparative genomics allowed the identification of 105 specific genes and revealed gene clusters that might encode specialized biocontrol mechanisms of strain 3Re2-7. Moreover, we captured the transcriptome of P. brassicacearum 3Re2-7, confirming the transcription of the predicted biocontrol-related genes. The gene clusters coding for 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (phlABCDEFGH) and hydrogen cyanide (hcnABC) were shown to be highly transcribed. Further genes predicted to encode putative alginate production enzymes, a pyrroloquinoline quinone precursor peptide PqqA and a matrixin family metalloprotease were also found to be highly transcribed. With this study, we provide a basis to further characterize the mechanisms for biocontrol in Pseudomonas species, towards a sustainable and safe application of P. brassicacearum biocontrol agents.</p>", "keywords": ["COMPARATIVE GENOMICS", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "Antifungal Agents", "Plant-growth promotion", "Biolog\u00eda", "comparative genomics", "Phloroglucinol", "PLANT-GROWTH PROMOTION", "Article", "Rhizoctonia", "transcriptomics", "03 medical and health sciences", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6", "Genome mining", "Hydrogen Cyanide", "Pseudomonas", "genome mining", "RNA SEQUENCING", "TRANSCRIPTOMICS", "biocontrol", "GENOME MINING", "PSEUDOMONASBRASSICACEARUM", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1", "Transcriptomics", "0303 health sciences", "Comparative genomics", "Biocontrol", "RNA sequencing", "<i>Pseudomonas brassicacearum</i>", "BIOCONTROL", "Pseudomonas brassicacearum", "Biological Control Agents", "Genes", " Bacterial", "Transcriptome", "plant-growth promotion"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/10/8/601/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/10/8/601/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10080601"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Genes", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/genes10080601", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/genes10080601", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/genes10080601"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-08-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/horticulturae9080920", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:21:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-08-14", "title": "Control of Nematodes in Organic Horticulture Exploiting the Multifunctional Capacity of Microorganisms", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Organic production is expected to play a major role in reducing the impact of agricultural practices on the environment. Soil is considered a major component of the organic production process, and organic practices aim at increasing its health and fertility. However, the control of soil-borne pests, particularly plant-parasitic nematodes, can be difficult in organic horticultural crops due to the rules allowed in this farming system. Applying a holistic approach that fosters and exploits the activity of the soil microbiome to control plant-parasitic nematodes has been at the basis of the analysis of the available scientific knowledge carried out for this review article. This review thus focuses on the multifunctional capacity of microorganisms, including that of bacteria and fungi not normally considered biocontrol agents, and the need to also better understand their relations with the plant and other environmental and agronomic factors. The implementation of the \u201cmulti-biotics\u201d concept, applying prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotics, which supports an integrated agroecological strategy for the protection of organic horticultural crops, is proposed as an efficient practice that should be further studied to be adapted under different crops and pedo-climatic conditions.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "organic farming", "microbial inocula", "biological control", "Plant culture", "plant-parasitic nematodes", "15. Life on land", "entomopathogenic nematodes", "SB1-1110"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/9/8/920/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9080920"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Horticulturae", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/horticulturae9080920", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/horticulturae9080920", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/horticulturae9080920"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-08-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/pathogens11101178", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:21:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-10-14", "title": "The Fight against Plant-Parasitic Nematodes: Current Status of Bacterial and Fungal Biocontrol Agents", "description": "<p>Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) are among the most notorious and underrated threats to food security and plant health worldwide, compromising crop yields and causing billions of dollars of losses annually. Chemical control strategies rely heavily on synthetic chemical nematicides to reduce PPN population densities, but their use is being progressively restricted due to environmental and human health concerns, so alternative control methods are urgently needed. Here, we review the potential of bacterial and fungal agents to suppress the most important PPNs, namely Aphelenchoides besseyi, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, Ditylenchus dipsaci, Globodera spp., Heterodera spp., Meloidogyne spp., Nacobbus aberrans, Pratylenchus spp., Radopholus similis, Rotylenchulus reniformis, and Xiphinema index.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "R", "biological control", "Review", "15. Life on land", "cyst nematodes", "3. Good health", "03 medical and health sciences", "nematophagous fungi", "pinewood nematode", "bionematicides", "Medicine", "bacteria"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/11/10/1178/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11101178"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Pathogens", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/pathogens11101178", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/pathogens11101178", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/pathogens11101178"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-10-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3897/neobiota.55.46874", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:21:40Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-04-06", "title": "In-season leaf damage by a biocontrol agent explains reproductive output of an invasive plant species", "description": "<p>One of the biggest challenges in classical biological control of invasive weeds is predicting the likelihood of success. Ambrosia artemisiifolia, a North American plant species that has become invasive in Europe, causes economic losses due to health problems resulting from its huge amount of highly allergenic pollen and as a weed to agricultural crops resulting from high seed densities. Here we assessed whether the pollen and seed output of the annual A. artemisiifolia (at the end of the season) is related to in-season abundance of, or damage by, the accidentally introduced biological control agent Ophraella communa. We monitored the growth and leaf damage of individually labelled A. artemisiifolia plants at four locations in Northern Italy and recorded abundance of different O. communa life stages at regular intervals. We found that the in-season level of leaf damage by O. communa consistently helped to explain seed production in combination with plant volume and site throughout the season. Feeding damage, plant volume and site also explained pollen production by A. artemisiifolia six weeks before male flower formation. At three out of four sites, plants with more than 10% leaf damage in mid-June or early July had a very low likelihood of seed formation. Leaf damage proved to be a better explanatory variable than O. communa abundance. Our results suggest that the monitoring of the in-season leaf damage can help to project the local impact of O. communa on A. artemisiifolia at the end of the season and thus inform management regarding the needs for additional measures to control this prominent invader.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "herbivory", "QH301-705.5", "biological invasions", "common ragweed", "classical biological control", "Ambrosia artemisiifolia", " biological invasions", " classical biological control", " common ragweed", " herbivory", " Ophraella communa", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "13. 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(2020)", "description": "Raw data related to Figures 1 to 5 and Table 1 plus suplementary raw data of the publication Razinger et al. (2020) Frontiers in Plant Science 11:535005; doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.535005.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Plant-microbe-insect interaction", "Wireworm", "Biological control", "Plant-microbe interaction", "Rhizosphere", "Sustainable agriculture", "Entomopathogenic fungus", "Biocontrol", "15. Life on land", "Biopesticide", "Plant-microbe-pest interaction", "Agriotes lineatus"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Razinger, Jaka, Praprotnik, Eva, Schroers, Hans-Josef,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4462142"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.4462142", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.4462142", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.4462142"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-01-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.4462143", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:23:50Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "ECOBREED WP3 entomopathogenic fungi-wireworm data related to Razinger et al. (2020)", "description": "Raw data related to Figures 1 to 5 and Table 1 plus suplementary raw data of the publication Razinger et al. (2020) Frontiers in Plant Science 11:535005; doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.535005.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Plant-microbe-insect interaction", "Wireworm", "Biological control", "Plant-microbe interaction", "Rhizosphere", "Sustainable agriculture", "Entomopathogenic fungus", "Biocontrol", "15. Life on land", "Biopesticide", "Plant-microbe-pest interaction", "Agriotes lineatus"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Razinger, Jaka, Praprotnik, Eva, Schroers, Hans-Josef,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4462143"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.4462143", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.4462143", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.4462143"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-01-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10316/114116", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:25:13Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-12-02", "title": "Knowledge and perceptions of invasive plant biocontrol in Europe versus the rest of the world", "description": "Biological control (BC) of invasive alien plants (IAP) can be an effective environmental management approach. It has only very recently been adopted in Europe and is underutilized compared to other continents where this method has been successfully implemented for over a century. This is in sharp contrast to the BC of invertebrate pests, which has been taken up widely within Europe. It has been suggested that this is related to the risk-adverse attitude of Europeans towards weed BC. Scientific and public perception have a major influence on environmental policy actions. Public perception and knowledge regarding BC is an understudied subject despite its relevance for the application of this management alternative. We aimed to assess the knowledge and perception of BC of IAP among European professionals compared with their peers from other continents. To this end we conducted an online survey including multiple choice and open questions among over 700 people professionally engaged with managing the natural environment, of which approximately half were from Europe (EU) and the others from outside (non-EU). We assessed relationships between the geographical location of the respondents and their knowledge, and perceptions of BC of weeds versus BC of invertebrate pests. We found that respondents' location influenced both perceptions and knowledge of BC for weeds. Compared to non-EU respondents, EU professionals showed less appreciation for BC (e.g., regarding safety, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness), and perceived it as a riskier method, particularly in the case of practitioners and researchers. More profoundly insect pest BC tended to be considered less safe than weed BC for non-EU respondents. Confidence in weed BC as a method, as well as in the validity of the associated pre-release risk assessments, strongly increased with the level of expertise in weed BC. While a much higher proportion of non-EU respondents were correctly aware of the presence/absence of BC in their own countries and identified successful examples of BC accurately, both groups of respondents were similarly aware of unsuccessful BC examples, including BC agents against animals, stressing the bias of EU respondents towards examples of BC failure. The appreciation of weed BC in Europe could be elevated by a combination of increasing knowledge of the technique and pre-release risk assessment and promoting successful examples of weed BC, which may bring major benefits for the management of IAP across the region.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Public perception", "Weed Control", "Plant Weeds", "Environment", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Europe", "Attitude", "13. Climate action", "Biological control", "Europe Weeds", "Animals", "Weeds", "Survey", "ta218"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10316/114116"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10316/114116", "name": "item", "description": "10316/114116", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10316/114116"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10835/13147", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:25:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-01-20", "title": "Reconnecting Farmers with Nature through Agroecological Transitions: Interacting Niches and Experimentation and the Role of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Sustainability transitions in agriculture are explored through an analysis of niche initiatives within a common production system, relying on sustainable transitions, multi-level perspectives, and agroecological frameworks, and involving multi-actor, agricultural knowledge, and innovation systems (AKIS). The article focuses on how experimental niches and sustainable activities affect farmers\u2019 relationships with nature, and the reconceptualisation of the production system in which they operate, particularly where this system is embedded in less sustainable conventional or dominant regimes and landscapes. The need for fundamental changes, in the way that humans interact with nature, is widely argued for in order to achieve sustainable development, and farmers occupy a central role through participation in complex networks of agri-food systems. They have also found themselves disconnected from nature through conventional agri-industrial production practices. Four niches (biological control, ecological restoration, soil health, and ecological pond management) within the greenhouse sector of Almeria (SE Spain) are explored in a case study. Our results indicate that a farmer\u2019s interaction with nature is functional, but through agroecological practices, a deeper understanding of the ecosystems in which greenhouse landscapes are embedded may be gained. As they become more connected to nature and benefit from ecosystem services, they can transition to more sustainable agricultural systems.</p></article>", "keywords": ["agroecology", "collective action", "Agriculture (General)", "pond naturalisation", "biological control", "sustainability transitions", "agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS)", "01 natural sciences", "S1-972", "12. Responsible consumption", "human nature connectedness; sustainability transitions; agricultural innovations; multi-level perspective; agroecology; agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS); conservative agriculture practices; knowledge co-production; mediterranean horticulture; integrated pest management; greenhouses; soil health; biological control; pond naturalisation; collective action; socio-ecological systems", "mediterranean horticulture", "greenhouses", "socio-ecological systems", "11. Sustainability", "multi-level perspective", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "agricultural innovations", "2. Zero hunger", "integrated pest management", "soil health", "9. Industry and infrastructure", "knowledge co-production", "multilevel perspective", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "conservative agriculture practices", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "human nature connectedness"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/12/2/137/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/12/2/137/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10835/13147"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10835/13147", "name": "item", "description": "10835/13147", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10835/13147"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-01-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "11336/255698", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:25:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-01-31", "title": "Characterization of Argentinian EndemicAspergillus flavusIsolates and Their Potential Use as Biocontrol Agents for Mycotoxins in Maize", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Maize (Zea mays L.) is a highly valuable crop in Argentina, frequently contaminated with the mycotoxins produced by Aspergillus flavus. Biocontrol products formulated with atoxigenic (nontoxic) strains of this fungal species are well known as an effective method to reduce this contamination. In the present study, 83 A. flavus isolates from two maize regions of Argentina were characterized and evaluated for their ability to produce or lack of producing mycotoxins in order to select atoxigenic strains to be used as potential biocontrol agents (BCA). All of the isolates were tested for aflatoxin and cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) production in maize kernels and a liquid culture medium. Genetic diversity of the nonaflatoxigenic isolates was evaluated by analysis of vegetative compatibility groups (VCG) and confirmation of deletions in the aflatoxin biosynthesis cluster. Eight atoxigenic isolates were compared for their ability to reduce aflatoxin and CPA contamination in maize kernels in coinoculation tests. The A. flavus population was composed of 32% aflatoxin and CPA producers and 52% CPA producers, and 16% was determined as atoxigenic. All of the aflatoxin producer isolates also produced CPA. Aflatoxin and CPA production was significantly higher in maize kernels than in liquid medium. The 57 nonaflatoxigenic strains formed six VCG, with AM1 and AM5 being the dominant groups, with a frequency of 58 and 35%, respectively. In coinoculation experiments, all of the atoxigenic strains reduced aflatoxin from 54 to 83% and CPA from 60 to 97%. Members of group AM1 showed a greater aflatoxin reduction than members of AM5 (72 versus 66%) but no differences were detected in CPA production. Here, we described for the first time atoxigenic isolates of A. flavus that show promise to be used as BCA in maize crops in Argentina. This innovating biological control approach should be considered, developed further, and used by the maize industry to preserve the quality properties and food safety of maize kernels in Argentina.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "Micotoxinas", "0303 health sciences", "Argentina", "Biocontrol", "Genetic Variation", "Mycotoxins", "maize", "Zea mays", "Maize", "03 medical and health sciences", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.5", "Biological Control Agents", "13. Climate action", "Aflatoxinas", "Antibiosis", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4", "Aspergillus Flavus", "Zea Mays", "Ma\u00edz", "Aspergillus flavus", "Plant Diseases"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/PHYTO-07-17-0255-R"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/11336/255698"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Phytopathology%C2%AE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "11336/255698", "name": "item", "description": "11336/255698", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/11336/255698"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "11336/151981", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:25:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-08-09", "title": "Genetic Potential of the Biocontrol Agent Pseudomonas brassicacearum (Formerly P. trivialis) 3Re2-7 Unraveled by Genome Sequencing and Mining, Comparative Genomics and Transcriptomics", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The genus Pseudomonas comprises many known plant-associated microbes with plant growth promotion and disease suppression properties. Genome-based studies allow the prediction of the underlying mechanisms using genome mining tools and the analysis of the genes unique for a strain by implementing comparative genomics. Here, we provide the genome sequence of the strain Pseudomonas brassicacearum 3Re2-7, formerly known as P. trivialis and P. reactans, elucidate its revised taxonomic classification, experimentally verify the gene predictions by transcriptome sequencing, describe its genetic biocontrol potential and contextualize it to other known Pseudomonas biocontrol agents. The P. brassicacearum 3Re2-7 genome comprises a circular chromosome with a size of 6,738,544 bp and a GC-content of 60.83%. 6267 genes were annotated, of which 6113 were shown to be transcribed in rich medium and/or in the presence of Rhizoctonia solani. Genome mining identified genes related to biocontrol traits such as secondary metabolite and siderophore biosynthesis, plant growth promotion, inorganic phosphate solubilization, biosynthesis of lipo- and exopolysaccharides, exoproteases, volatiles and detoxification. Core genome analysis revealed, that the 3Re2-7 genome exhibits a high collinearity with the representative genome for the species, P. brassicacearum subsp. brassicacearum NFM421. Comparative genomics allowed the identification of 105 specific genes and revealed gene clusters that might encode specialized biocontrol mechanisms of strain 3Re2-7. Moreover, we captured the transcriptome of P. brassicacearum 3Re2-7, confirming the transcription of the predicted biocontrol-related genes. The gene clusters coding for 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (phlABCDEFGH) and hydrogen cyanide (hcnABC) were shown to be highly transcribed. Further genes predicted to encode putative alginate production enzymes, a pyrroloquinoline quinone precursor peptide PqqA and a matrixin family metalloprotease were also found to be highly transcribed. With this study, we provide a basis to further characterize the mechanisms for biocontrol in Pseudomonas species, towards a sustainable and safe application of P. brassicacearum biocontrol agents.</p></article>", "keywords": ["COMPARATIVE GENOMICS", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "Antifungal Agents", "Plant-growth promotion", "Biolog\u00eda", "comparative genomics", "Phloroglucinol", "PLANT-GROWTH PROMOTION", "Article", "Rhizoctonia", "12. Responsible consumption", "transcriptomics", "03 medical and health sciences", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6", "Genome mining", "Hydrogen Cyanide", "Pseudomonas", "genome mining", "RNA SEQUENCING", "TRANSCRIPTOMICS", "biocontrol", "GENOME MINING", "PSEUDOMONASBRASSICACEARUM", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1", "Transcriptomics", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Comparative genomics", "Biocontrol", "RNA sequencing", "<i>Pseudomonas brassicacearum</i>", "3. Good health", "BIOCONTROL", "Pseudomonas brassicacearum", "Biological Control Agents", "Genes", " Bacterial", "Transcriptome", "plant-growth promotion"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/10/8/601/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/10/8/601/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/11336/151981"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Genes", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "11336/151981", "name": "item", "description": "11336/151981", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/11336/151981"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-08-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "16041cf1163c84786fd6c1647a02cade", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:25:37Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Supplementary material 4 from: Augustinus BA, Lommen STE, Fogliatto S, Vidotto F, Smith T, Horvath D, Bonini M, Gentili RF, Citterio S, M\u00fcller-Sch\u00e4rer H, Schaffner U (2020) In-season leaf damage by a biocontrol agent explains reproductive output of an invasive plant species. NeoBiota 55: 117-146. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.55.46874", "description": "Figure S1. Mean plant volume \u00b1 se of A. artemisiifolia plants measured during the experiment in the four experimental sites", "keywords": ["15. Life on land", "Ambrosia artemisiifolia biological invasions classical biological control common ragweed herbivory Ophraella communa"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Augustinus, Benno A., Lommen, Suzanne T. E., Fogliatto, Silvia, Vidotto, Francesco, Smith, Tessa, Horvath, David, Bonini, Maira, Gentili, Rodolfo F., Citterio, Sandra, M\u00fcller-Sch\u00e4rer, Heinz, Schaffner, Urs,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/16041cf1163c84786fd6c1647a02cade"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "16041cf1163c84786fd6c1647a02cade", "name": "item", "description": "16041cf1163c84786fd6c1647a02cade", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/16041cf1163c84786fd6c1647a02cade"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-04-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "1887/3192725", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:25:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-04-21", "title": "Biological weed control to relieve millions from Ambrosia allergies in Europe", "description": "Abstract<p>Invasive alien species (IAS) can substantially affect ecosystem services and human well-being. However, quantitative assessments of their impact on human health are rare and the benefits of implementing IAS management likely to be underestimated. Here we report the effects of the allergenic plant Ambrosia artemisiifolia on public health in Europe and the potential impact of the accidentally introduced leaf beetle Ophraella communa on the number of patients and healthcare costs. We find that, prior to the establishment of O. communa, some 13.5 million persons suffered from Ambrosia-induced allergies in Europe, causing costs of Euro 7.4 billion annually. Our projections reveal that biological control of A. artemisiifolia will reduce the number of patients by approximately 2.3 million and the health costs by Euro 1.1 billion per year. Our conservative calculations indicate that the currently discussed economic costs of IAS underestimate the real costs and thus also the benefits from biological control.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Science", "Weed Control", "Q", "Plant Weeds", "Rhinitis", " Allergic", " Seasonal", "15. Life on land", "Q1", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "3. Good health", "Coleoptera", "Europe", "Biological Control Agents", "13. Climate action", "Animals", "Humans", "Public Health", "Ambrosia"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/9268/15/Skj%C3%B8th-9268-VoR-Biological-Weed-Control-to-relieve-millions-from-Ambrosia-allergies-in-Europe.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15586-1.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/1887/3192725"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nature%20Communications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "1887/3192725", "name": "item", "description": "1887/3192725", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/1887/3192725"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-04-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "2318/1735590", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:26:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-04-06", "title": "In-season leaf damage by a biocontrol agent explains reproductive output of an invasive plant species", "description": "<p>One of the biggest challenges in classical biological control of invasive weeds is predicting the likelihood of success. Ambrosia artemisiifolia, a North American plant species that has become invasive in Europe, causes economic losses due to health problems resulting from its huge amount of highly allergenic pollen and as a weed to agricultural crops resulting from high seed densities. Here we assessed whether the pollen and seed output of the annual A. artemisiifolia (at the end of the season) is related to in-season abundance of, or damage by, the accidentally introduced biological control agent Ophraella communa. We monitored the growth and leaf damage of individually labelled A. artemisiifolia plants at four locations in Northern Italy and recorded abundance of different O. communa life stages at regular intervals. We found that the in-season level of leaf damage by O. communa consistently helped to explain seed production in combination with plant volume and site throughout the season. Feeding damage, plant volume and site also explained pollen production by A. artemisiifolia six weeks before male flower formation. At three out of four sites, plants with more than 10% leaf damage in mid-June or early July had a very low likelihood of seed formation. Leaf damage proved to be a better explanatory variable than O. communa abundance. Our results suggest that the monitoring of the in-season leaf damage can help to project the local impact of O. communa on A. artemisiifolia at the end of the season and thus inform management regarding the needs for additional measures to control this prominent invader.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "herbivory", "QH301-705.5", "biological invasions", "common ragweed", "classical biological control", "Ambrosia artemisiifolia", " biological invasions", " classical biological control", " common ragweed", " herbivory", " Ophraella communa", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "3. Good health", "13. Climate action", "Ambrosia artemisiifolia; Biological invasions; Classical biological control; Common ragweed; Herbivory; Ophraella communa;", "Ophraella communa", "Ambrosia artemisiifolia", " Biological invasions", " Classical biological control", " Common ragweed", " Herbivory", " Ophraella communa", "", "Biology (General)", "Ambrosia artemisiifolia"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://boa.unimib.it/bitstream/10281/280756/2/10281-280756_VoR.pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1735590/1/Augustinus%20et%20al.%20-%202020%20-%20In-season%20leaf%20damage%20by%20a%20biocontrol%20agent%20explai.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/2318/1735590"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/NeoBiota", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "2318/1735590", "name": "item", "description": "2318/1735590", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/2318/1735590"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-04-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "2999294732", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:26:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-01-10", "title": "Whole Genome Sequencing and Comparative Genomics of Two Nematicidal Bacillus Strains Reveals a Wide Range of Possible Virulence Factors", "description": "Abstract                <p>Bacillus firmus nematicidal bacterial strains are used to control plant parasitic nematode infestation of crops in agricultural production. Proteases are presumed to be the primary nematode virulence factors in nematicidal B. firmus degrading the nematode cuticle and other organs. We determined and compared the whole genome sequences of two nematicidal strains. Comparative genomics with a particular focus on possible virulence determinants revealed a wider range of possible virulence factors in a B. firmus isolate from a commercial bionematicide and a wild type Bacillus sp. isolate with nematicidal activity. The resulting 4.6 Mb B. firmus I-1582 and 5.3 Mb Bacillus sp. ZZV12-4809 genome assemblies contain respectively 18 and 19 homologs to nematode-virulent proteases, two nematode-virulent chitinase homologs in ZZV12-4809 and 28 and 36 secondary metabolite biosynthetic clusters, projected to encode antibiotics, small peptides, toxins and siderophores. The results of this study point to the genetic capability of B. firmus and related species for nematode virulence through a range of direct and indirect mechanisms.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Whole Genome Sequencing", "complete genomes", "Virulence Factors", "Antinematodal Agents", "virulence factors", "bacillus firmus", "biological control", "Bacillus", "bioinformatics", "Genomics", "QH426-470", "Genome Report", "3. Good health", "Bacterial Proteins", "Drug Resistance", " Bacterial", "Genetics", "BACILLUS FIRMUS", " COMPLETE GENOMES", " BIOINFORMATICS", " BIOLOGICAL CONTROL", " NEMATICIDAL ACTIVITY", " VIRULENCE FACTORS", "Bacillus firmus", "nematicidal activity", "Genome", " Bacterial"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://academic.oup.com/g3journal/article-pdf/10/3/881/38825647/g3journal0881.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/2999294732"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/G3%20Genes%7CGenomes%7CGenetics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "2999294732", "name": "item", "description": "2999294732", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/2999294732"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "3085652146", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:26:39Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-09-17", "title": "Bioaugmentation of Entomopathogenic Fungi for Sustainable Agriotes Larvae (Wireworms) Management in Maize", "description": "Soil microorganisms influence biotic and abiotic stress tolerance of crops. Most interactions between plant symbiotic and non-symbiotic soil microorganisms and plants occur in the rhizosphere and are sustained through plant exudation/rhizodeposition. Bioaugmentation, i.e., the introduction or amplification of certain plant beneficial microbes (e.g., entomopathogenic fungi) into the rhizosphere, could contribute to controlling insect crop pests and replacing chemical, environmentally unfriendly insecticides. Wireworms, the soil-burrowing larval stages of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae), are major pests of crops including maize, wheat and potatoes, worldwide. Alternative strategies for controlling wireworms are needed because several chemical pesticides used successfully in the past are being phased out because of their ecotoxicity. Therefore, virulence to Agriotes lineatus L. wireworms and plant beneficial traits of entomopathogenic fungi were investigated in a series of laboratory experiments. Tested taxa included environmentally retrieved Metarhizium brunneum Petch. (two strains), M. robertsii Bisch., Rehner & Humber (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae), and Beauveria brongniartii (Sacc.) Petch. and commercially formulated B. bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill. (Cordycipitaceae) and Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner 1915 var. kurstaki. In-house reared larvae were dipped in conidial suspension, and maize and wheat seeds were coated with fungal conidia. Metarhizium brunneum strains 1154 and 1868 significantly increased wireworm mortality. Fungi were significantly more often re-isolated from maize than wheat rhizoplanes in laboratory assays. The strains tested were rarely isolated as endophytes. Metarhizium brunneum strain 1154 stimulated wheat growth, while M. robertsii 1880 stimulated maize growth, whereas M. brunneum 1868 and others did not affect root or shoot length or plant biomass significantly in laboratory settings. Metarhizium brunneum strain 1868, re-isolated most often from maize rhizoplane, caused the highest wireworm mortality. It was further evaluated whether M. brunneum 1868 can protect maize varieties FeroXXY, LG 34.90 and Chapalu from wireworm damage and promote plant growth at field conditions. Plants of all three varieties stemming from seeds treated with conidia of M. brunneum 1868 showed significantly less wireworm damage 3 to 4 weeks after sowing (5- to 6-leaf stage) resulting in a significantly higher initial maize stand. However, only in the variety LG 34.90\u00a0a significant increase of the maize stand was observed at harvest time.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "plant\u2013microbe interaction", "biological control", "Plant culture", "Plant Science", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "biopesticide", "plant\u2013microbe\u2013insect interaction", "SB1-1110", "12. Responsible consumption", "sustainable agriculture", "03 medical and health sciences", "plant-microbe-pest interaction", "13. 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In this study, we investigate the abundance and population structure of Metarhizium spp. in three land-use types\u2014arable land, grassland, and forest\u2014to provide detailed information on habitat selection and the factors that drive the occurrence and abundance of Metarhizium spp. in soil. At 10 sites of each land-use type, which are all part of the Swiss national soil-monitoring network (NABO), Metarhizium spp. were present at 8, 10, and 4 sites, respectively. On average, Metarhizium spp. were most abundant in grassland, followed by forest and then arable land; 349 Metarhizium isolates were collected from the 30 sites, and sequence analyses of the nuclear translation elongation factor 1\u03b1 gene, as well as microsatellite-based genotyping, revealed the presence of 13 Metarhizium brunneum, 6 Metarhizium robertsii, and 3 Metarhizium guizhouense multilocus genotypes (MLGs). 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Most interactions between plant symbiotic and non-symbiotic soil microorganisms and plants occur in the rhizosphere and are sustained through plant exudation/rhizodeposition. Bioaugmentation, i.e., the introduction or amplification of certain plant beneficial microbes (e.g., entomopathogenic fungi) into the rhizosphere, could contribute to controlling insect crop pests and replacing chemical, environmentally unfriendly insecticides. Wireworms, the soil-burrowing larval stages of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae), are major pests of crops including maize, wheat and potatoes, worldwide. Alternative strategies for controlling wireworms are needed because several chemical pesticides used successfully in the past are being phased out because of their ecotoxicity. Therefore, virulence to Agriotes lineatus L. wireworms and plant beneficial traits of entomopathogenic fungi were investigated in a series of laboratory experiments. Tested taxa included environmentally retrieved Metarhizium brunneum Petch. (two strains), M. robertsii Bisch., Rehner & Humber (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae), and Beauveria brongniartii (Sacc.) Petch. and commercially formulated B. bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill. (Cordycipitaceae) and Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner 1915 var. kurstaki. In-house reared larvae were dipped in conidial suspension, and maize and wheat seeds were coated with fungal conidia. Metarhizium brunneum strains 1154 and 1868 significantly increased wireworm mortality. Fungi were significantly more often re-isolated from maize than wheat rhizoplanes in laboratory assays. The strains tested were rarely isolated as endophytes. Metarhizium brunneum strain 1154 stimulated wheat growth, while M. robertsii 1880 stimulated maize growth, whereas M. brunneum 1868 and others did not affect root or shoot length or plant biomass significantly in laboratory settings. Metarhizium brunneum strain 1868, re-isolated most often from maize rhizoplane, caused the highest wireworm mortality. It was further evaluated whether M. brunneum 1868 can protect maize varieties FeroXXY, LG 34.90 and Chapalu from wireworm damage and promote plant growth at field conditions. Plants of all three varieties stemming from seeds treated with conidia of M. brunneum 1868 showed significantly less wireworm damage 3 to 4 weeks after sowing (5- to 6-leaf stage) resulting in a significantly higher initial maize stand. However, only in the variety LG 34.90\u00a0a significant increase of the maize stand was observed at harvest time.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "plant\u2013microbe interaction", "biological control", "Plant culture", "Plant Science", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "biopesticide", "plant\u2013microbe\u2013insect interaction", "SB1-1110", "12. 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