Publications by authors named "Elem Fialho Martins"
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- The study investigates the use of specific fungi from the Clavicipitaceae family as a biological control method against the coffee leaf miner (CLM), a significant pest for coffee plants.
- Researchers inoculated coffee seeds with these fungi collected from coffee crop soil in Brazil and measured their effects on plant growth and CLM development.
- Results showed that plants inoculated with the fungi had slower CLM development and reproduction, along with improved growth, indicating a promising approach for pest control and plant health enhancement without negatively impacting growth from the fungicide used.
This study aimed to evaluate the toxicity of the Varronia curassavica Jacq. essential oil to two cosmopolitan and polyphagous pest species, the two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae Koch) and the green aphid (Myzus persicae Sulzer). Additionally, we tested the essential oil toxicity to a generalist predatory insect, the green lacewing Ceraeochrysa cubana Hagen.
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- First-time report of the green lacewing species, Chrysoperla externa, preying on the coffee berry borer (CBB), Hypothenemus hampei.
- Laboratory experiments demonstrated the lacewing's ability to enter CBB galleries and consume pest immature stages.
- This discovery adds a new and underexplored predator to the list of potential biological control agents for CBB.