5 results match your criteria: "Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants[Affiliation]"
Developing fertility control for rodents: a framework for researchers and practitioners.
Integr Zool
January 2024
CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Fertility control is often heralded as a humane and effective technique for management of overabundant wildlife, including rodents. The intention is to reduce the use of lethal and inhumane methods, increase farm productivity and food security as well as reduce disease transmission, particularly of zoonoses. We developed a framework to guide researchers and stakeholders planning to assess the effectiveness of a potential contraceptive agent for a particular species.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDNA-based seed intake quantification for enhanced ecological risk assessment of small mammals.
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
July 2023
Environmental Biology, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Van Steenis, Building, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC Leiden, the Netherlands.
To prevent the non-acceptable effects of agrochemicals on arable fields, Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) aims to assess and protect against a wide range of risks due to stressors to non-target species. While exposure to stress is a key factor in ERA models, exposure values are difficult to obtain and rely on laboratory studies with often debatable relevance to field situations. To improve intake estimates, data from realistic field-based scenarios are needed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEstablishment of a faecal DNA quantification technique for rare and cryptic diet constituents in small mammals.
Mol Ecol Resour
August 2022
Vertebrate Research, Institute for Plant Protection in Horticulture and Forests, Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI) Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants, Münster, Germany.
Article Synopsis
- DNA-based methods are helping scientists better study what animals eat and how their ecosystems work, but they have some challenges tracking all types of food.
- The study mentioned is unique because it used a new technique called droplet digital PCR to measure the food of wood mice after feeding them small vegetable seeds.
- This new method allowed researchers to see clear differences in how much food the mice ate, showing that they could accurately measure food amounts using DNA found in their poop.
Article Synopsis
- Flavescence dorée (FD) and Bois noir (BN) are major grapevine diseases in Europe, caused by different phytoplasmas and transmitted by specific insect vectors.
- Black Alder trees are asymptomatic hosts of FD phytoplasmas and are connected to the disease's spread to grapevines.
- Germany has so far remained free from FD and its vector, although monitoring continues due to potential threats from neighboring regions, and instances of symptomatic vines have predominantly shown BN or another associated condition.
Biocontrol of the toxigenic plant pathogen Fusarium culmorum by soil fauna in an agroecosystem.
Mycotoxin Res
August 2017
Institute of Agricultural Technology, Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute (TI) - Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Bundesallee 50, 38116, Braunschweig, Germany.
In 2011 and 2013, a field experiment was conducted in a winter wheat field at Adenstedt (northern Germany) to investigate biocontrol and interaction effects of important members of the soil food web (Lumbricus terrestris, Annelida; Folsomia candida, Collembola and Aphelenchoides saprophilus, Nematoda) on the phytopathogenic fungus Fusarium culmorum in wheat straw. Therefore, soil fauna was introduced in mesocosms in defined numbers and combinations and exposed to either Fusarium-infected or non-infected wheat straw. L.
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