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Fourteen informative papers dealing with their DNA, species interactions, adventiveness, host specificity, potential as boi-contol agents of weeds, chemical control, behaviour, their role in fungal pathogen epidemiology, influence in forests and on ornamentals, collecting and mounting techniques and their interaction with crops are presented here. This is an extensive and valuable contribution to eriophyoid science and a must for present and future researchers in this field.
List of contents
Preface.- What's "cool" on eriophyoid mites?.- Behavioural studies on eriophyoid mites: an overview.- Plant-eriophyoid mite interactions: cellular biochemistry and metabolic responses induced in mite-injured plants. Part I.- Plant-eriophyoid mite interactions: specific and unspecific morphological alterations. Part II.- Host-plant specificity and specialization in eriophyoid mites and their importance for the use of eriophyoid mites as biocontrol agents of weeds.- Effectiveness of eriophyid mites for biological control of weedy plants and challenges for future research.- The impact of eriophyoids on crops: recent issues on Aculus schlechtendali, Calepitrimerus vitis and Aculops lycopersici.- An insight into some relevant aspects concerning eriophyoid mites inhabiting forests, ornamental trees and shrubs.- The role of eriophyoids in fungal pathogen epidemiology, mere association or true interaction?.- The control of eriophyoid mites: state of the art and future challenges.- Adventive eriophyoid mites: a global review of their impact, pathways, prevention and challenges.- DNA-based methods for eriophyoid mite studies: review, critical aspects, prospects and challenges.- Collection and detection of eriophyoid mites.- Recommended procedures and techniques for morphological studies of Eriophyoidea (Acari: Prostigmata).
Summary
Fourteen informative papers dealing with their DNA, species interactions, adventiveness, host specificity, potential as boi-contol agents of weeds, chemical control, behaviour, their role in fungal pathogen epidemiology, influence in forests and on ornamentals, collecting and mounting techniques and their interaction with crops are presented here. This is an extensive and valuable contribution to eriophyoid science and a must for present and future researchers in this field.
