Species interactions key to non-native plant impacts
New research carried out over three years by Dr Lauren Waller and colleagues, and published in the journal Science shows that non-native plants interact differently with insects and soil microbes than native plants.
This has dramatic consequences for carbon cycling. Read more...
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Flowering alyssum can help to protect brassica crops
A common garden plant may hold the key to protecting brassica crops from the wheat bug, Nysius huttoni, a damaging pest.
In a paper published in the journal Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Sundar Tiwari outlines his research into protecting brassica seedlings from the wheat bug. Read more...
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Soil surrounding kauri forests lacks protective microbes
A study suggests that kauri dieback may be connected to the lack of protective fungi in plantation pine forest soil.
Published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology, the study by PhD candidate Alexa Byers and others looked at differences in the bacteria and fungi living in the soil of kauri forest and surrounding pine plantations in the Waipoua area of Northland. Read more...
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Mapping a new direction for bioprotection
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Having made it through the first round of bidding for new Centre of Research Excellence funding, Centre researchers and new partners have been working to ready our new CoRE proposal for increased scrutiny in the second round.
The new CoRE, Bioprotection Aotearoa, proposes to take our research into new directions with a refreshed remit and membership. Read more...
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BPRC researchers share views on post-COVID future
 The emergence and spread of COVID-19 has changed our world dramatically in the past six months, creating real opportunities, and significant risks, for New Zealand, scientifically, socially, and economically.
Many commentators, including Centre researchers, have offered their views of what these risks and opportunities might be.
On stuff in May, Dist Prof Phil Hulme suggested Covid-19 shows that a better biosecurity system is possible for New Zealand.
In The Spinoff Assoc Prof Amanda Black proposed a taiao-based model could lead to sustainable economic recovery.
And in the New Zealand Herald in June, Prof Stephen Goldson and Dr Caroline Saunders wrote that Covid-19 gave New Zealand a massive trade advantage.
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Native hunters shun exotic pests
Planting botanical species to attract the enemies of pests is becoming popular around the world as primary producers search for effective, non-synthetic pest-control strategies.
It’s a pest-management strategy known as conservation biocontrol. But it doesn't work in New Zealand pastures, Prof Stephen Goldson wrote in Farmers Weekly. Read more...
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Catalyst funding for trans-Tasman biopesticide project
The BPRC has been awarded a Catalyst grant to develop a biopesticide consortium between New Zealand researchers and the CSIRO in Australia.
This is an exciting development, building on the success of a recently completed MBIE programme, Next Generation Biopesticides. It will bring together expertise from Lincoln University, AgResearch, Plant & Food Research, and several CSIRO groups.
Biopesticides are currently a $5B industry, growing at more than 10% a year. Read more...
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Lessons from the lockdown
Centre researchers and students have had to adapt to significant disruptions in research and study caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
This resulted in innovation and changed expectations, as well as some permanently different ways of working. Recognising the disruptions, TEC has extended CoRE contracts by six months so researchers and students can reach their milestones. Read more...
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Barbara Barratt of AgResearch received a Science New Zealand 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award, for her research into the biosafety of introduced insect biocontrol agents, spanning more than 40 years.
Alana Thurston of Lincoln University received the Ian Blair Memorial Prize for 2019. Lincoln
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University awards the prize each year to the top student completing year one of a two-year Masters degree in the natural resources area of study.
The Next-Generation Biopesticides team, led by Maureen O'Callaghan, was awarded gold status by MBIE.
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The following papers authored or co-authored by BPRC researchers were published in the first half of 2020
Allen, W. J., Wainer, R., Tylianakis, J. M., Barratt, B. I. P., Shadbolt, M. R., Waller, L. P., Dickie, A., Cahill, J. (2020). “Community‐level direct and indirect impacts of an invasive plant favour exotic over native species.” Journal of Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13433
Atijegbe, S. R., Mansfield, S., Ferguson, C. M., Worner, S. P., & Rostas, M. (2020). “Host Range Expansion of an Endemic Insect Herbivore is Associated with High Nitrogen and Low Fibre Content in Exotic Pasture Plants. J Chem Ecol, 46(5-6), 544-556. doi:10.1007/s10886-020-01183-5
Birch, N., & Glare, T. (Eds.) (2020). Biopesticides for Sustainable Agriculture (Volume 73 of Burleigh Dodds in Agricultural Science ed.) Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing ISBN-13: 9781786763563
Byers, A. K., Condron, L., Donavan, T., O'Callaghan, M., Patuawa, T., Waipara, N., & Black, A. (2020). “Soil microbial diversity in adjacent forest systems - contrasting native, old growth kauri (Agathis australis) forest with exotic pine (Pinus radiata) plantation forest.” FEMS Microbiol Ecol, 96(5). doi:10.1093/femsec/fiaa047
Cheong, P. C. H., Glare, T. R., Rostas, M., Haines, S., Brookes, J. J., & Ford, S. (2020). “Lack of involvement of chitinase in direct toxicity of Beauveria bassiana cultures to the aphid Myzus persicae.” J Invertebr Pathol, 169, 107276. doi:10.1016/j.jip.2019.107276
Courchamp, F., Hulme, P., & Pysek, P. (2020). “Uncertainty in native range definitions and invasion biology: response to Pereyra 2019.” Conserv Biol. doi:10.1111/cobi.13528
Cui, X., Paterson, A. M., Alam, M. A., Wyse, S. V., Marshall, K., Perry, G. L. W., & Curran, T. J. (2020). “Shoot-level flammability across the Dracophyllum (Ericaceae) phylogeny: evidence for flammability being an emergent property in a land with little fire.” New Phytol. doi:10.1111/nph.16651
Cui, X., Paterson, A. M., Wyse, S. V., Alam, M. A., Maurin, K. J. L., Pieper, R., Padulles Cubino, J., O'Connell, D. M., Donkers, D., Bréda, H. L., Buckley, H. L., Perry, G. L. W., Curran, T. J. (2020). “Shoot flammability of vascular plants is phylogenetically conserved and related to habitat fire-proneness and growth form.” Nat Plants, 6(4), 355-359. doi:10.1038/s41477-020-0635-1
Dickie, I. A., Wakelin, A., & Richardson, S. J. (2020). “Rare species of wood-inhabiting fungi are not local.” Ecol Appl. doi:10.1002/eap.2156
Emami-Khoyi, A., Benmazouz, I., Paterson, A. M., Ross, J. G., Murphy, E. C., Bothwell, J., Alizadeh, H., van Vuuren, B. J., Teske, P. R. (2020). “Oral Microbiome Metabarcoding in Two Invasive Small Mammals from New Zealand.” Diversity, 12(7), 278. doi:10.3390/d12070278
Enders, M., Havemann, F., Ruland, F., Bernard‐Verdier, M., Catford, J. A., Gómez‐Aparicio, Haider, S., Heger, T., Kueffer, C., Kühn, I., Meyerson, L. A., Musseau, C., Novoa, A., Ricciardi, A., Sagouis, A., Schittko, C., Strayer, D. L., Vilà, M., Essl, F., Hulme, P. E., Kleunen, M., Kumschick, S., Lockwood, J. L., Mabey, A. L., McGeoch, M. A., Palma, E., Pyšek, P., Saul, W.C., Yannelli, F. A, Jeschke, J. M., Belmaker, J. (2020). “A conceptual map of invasion biology: Integrating hypotheses into a consensus network.” Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(6), 978-991. doi:10.1111/geb.13082
Essl, F., Dullinger, S., Genovesi, P., Hulme, P. E., Jeschke, J. M., Katsanevakis, S., Kühn, I., Lenzner, B., Pauchard, A., Pyšek, P., Rabitsch, W., Richardson, D. M., Seebens, H., van Kleunen, M., van der Putten, W. H., Vilà, M., Bacher, S. (2020). “Distinct Biogeographic Phenomena Require a Specific Terminology: A reply to Wilson and Sagoff.” BioScience. doi:10.1093/biosci/biz161
Freitas, P. P., Hampton, J. G., Rolston, M. P., Glare, T. R., Miller, P. P., & Card, S. D. (2020). “A Tale of Two Grass Species: Temperature Affects the Symbiosis of a Mutualistic Epichloë Endophyte in Both Tall Fescue and Perennial Ryegrass.” Front Plant Sci, 11, 530. doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.00530
Gillespie, M.A.K., Wratten, S.D., Waterhouse, B.R. (2020). “Promoting non-crop flowering plants for specific insect pollinators.” pp 81-91. In: N. Azzu, B. Gemmill-Herren A. Bicksler, and A. Guidotti (Eds). Toward Sustainable Crop Pollination Services: Measures at Field, Farm and Landscape Scales. FAO guidance document, FAO, Rome. DOI: 10.4060/ca8965en
Gillespie, M.A.K., Wratten, S.D., Waterhouse, B.R. (2020). “Conducting Cost-Benefit Analysis for wild pollinator conservation on farmland.” pp 127-134. In: N. Azzu, B. Gemmill-Herren A. Bicksler, and A. Guidotti (Eds). Toward Sustainable Crop Pollination Services: Measures at Field, Farm and Landscape Scales. FAO guidance document, FAO, Rome. DOI: 10.4060/ca8965en
Goldson, S. L., Barker, G. M., Chapman, H. M., Popay, A. J., Stewart, A. V., Caradus, J. R., & Barratt, B. I. P. (2020). “Severe Insect Pest Impacts on New Zealand Pasture: The Plight of an Ecological Outlier.” J Insect Sci, 20(2). doi:10.1093/jisesa/ieaa018
González-Chang, M., Wratten, S. D., Shields, M. W., Costanza, R., Dainese, M., Gurr, G. M., Johnson, J., Karp, D. S., Ketelaar, J. W., Nboyine, J., Pretty, J., Rayl, R., Sandhu, H., Walker, M., Zhou, W. (2020). “Understanding the pathways from biodiversity to agro-ecological outcomes: A new, interactive approach.” Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 301, 107053. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2020.107053
Glare, T.R., McKinnon, A.C., Gwynn, R.L., Brownbridge, M. (2019). “Advances in microbial control in integrated pest management: entomopathogenic fungi.” In M. Kogan & L. Higley (ed.) Integrated management of insect pests: Current and future developments. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK. pp. 549-592. ISBN-13: 9781786762603
Green, K. A., Berry, D., Feussner, K., Eaton, C. J., Ram, A., Mesarich, C. H., Solomon, P., Feussner, I., Scott, B. (2020). “Lolium perenne apoplast metabolomics for identification of novel metabolites produced by the symbiotic fungus Epichloë festucae”. New Phytol, 227(2), 559-571. doi:10.1111/nph.16528
Guo, Y., Dupont, P. Y., Mesarich, C. H., Yang, B., McDougal, R. L., Panda, P., Dijkwel, P., Studholme, D. J., Sambles, C., Win, J., Wang, Y., Williams, N. M., Bradshaw, R. E. (2020). “Functional analysis of RXLR effectors from the New Zealand kauri dieback pathogen Phytophthora agathidicida”. Mol Plant Pathol. doi:10.1111/mpp.12967
Hampton, H. G., Watson, B. N. J., & Fineran, P. C. (2020). “The arms race between bacteria and their phage foes”. Nature, 577(7790), 327-336. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1894-8
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Harrop, T. W. R., Le Lec, M. F., Jauregui, R., Taylor, S. E., Inwood, S. N., van Stijn, T., Henry, H., Skelly, J., Ganesh, S., Ashby, R. L., Jacobs, J. M. E., Goldson, S. L., Dearden, P. K. (2020). “Genetic Diversity in Invasive Populations of Argentine Stem Weevil Associated with Adaptation to Biocontrol”. Insects 11(441). doi: 10.3390/insects11070441
Hassing, B., Eaton, C. J., Winter, D., Green, K. A., Brandt, U., Savoian, M. S., Mesarich, C. H., Fleissner, A., Scott, B. (2020). “Phosphatidic acid produced by phospholipase D is required for hyphal cell-cell fusion and fungal-plant symbiosis”. Mol Microbiol, 113(6), 1101-1121. doi:10.1111/mmi.14480
Hulme, P. E. (2020). “Plant invasions in New Zealand: global lessons in prevention, eradication and control”. Biological Invasions, 22(5), 1539-1562. doi:10.1007/s10530-020-02224-6
Ireland, K. B., van Klinken, R., Cook, D. C., Logan, D., Jamieson, L., Tyson, J. L., Hulme, P. E., Worner, S., Brockerhoff, E. G., Fletcher, J.D., Rodoni, B., Christopher, M., Ludowici, V. A., Bulman, L., Teulon, D., Crampton, K. A., Hodda, M., Paini, D. (2020). “Plant Pest Impact Metric System (PPIMS): Framework and guidelines for a common set of metrics to classify and prioritise plant pests”. Crop Protection, 128, 105003. doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2019.105003
Jin, M., Zwick, A., Ślipiński, A., Marris, J. W. M., Thomas, M. C., & Pang, H. (2020). “A comprehensive phylogeny of flat bark beetles (Coleoptera: Cucujidae) with a revised classification and a new South American genus”. Systematic Entomology, 45(2), 248-268. doi:10.1111/syen.12392
Keswani, C., Singh, H. B., Garcia-Estrada, C., Caradus, J., He, Y. W., Mezaache-Aichour, S., Glare, T. R., Borriss., R., Sansinenea, E. (2020). “Antimicrobial secondary metabolites from agriculturally important bacteria as next-generation pesticides”. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, 104(3), 1013-1034. doi:10.1007/s00253-019-10300-8
Kondratev, N., Denton-Giles, M., Bradshaw, R. E., Cox, M. P., & Dijkwel, P. P. (2020). “Camellia Plant Resistance and Susceptibility to Petal Blight Disease Are Defined by the Timing of Defense Responses”. Mol Plant Microbe Interact, 33(7), 982-995. doi:10.1094/MPMI-10-19-0304-R
Moyano, J., Dickie, I. A., Rodriguez‐Cabal, M. A., & Nuñez, M. A. (2020). “Patterns of plant naturalization show that facultative mycorrhizal plants are more likely to succeed outside their native Eurasian ranges”. Ecography, 43(5), 648-659. doi:10.1111/ecog.04877
Narouei‐Khandan, H. A., Worner, S. P., Viljanen, S. L. H., Bruggen, A. H. C., & Jones, E. E. (2019). “Projecting the suitability of global and local habitats for myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii) using model consensus”. Plant Pathology, 69(1), 17-27. doi:10.1111/ppa.13111
Olaniyan, O., RodrÍGuez-Gasol, N., Cayla, N., Michaud, E., & Wratten, S. D. (2020). “Bactericera cockerelli (Sulc), a potential threat to China's potato industry”. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 19(2), 338-349. doi:10.1016/s2095-3119(19)62754-1
Pal, R. W., Maron, J. L., Nagy, D. U., Waller, L. P., Tosto, A., Liao, H., & Callaway, R. M. (2020). “What happens in Europe stays in Europe: apparent evolution by an invader does not help at home”. Ecology, e03072. doi:10.1002/ecy.3072
Peralta, G., Dickie, I. A., Yeates, G. W., & Peltzer, D. A. (2020). “Community- and trophic-level responses of soil nematodes to removal of a non-native tree at different stages of invasion”. PLoS One, 15(1), e0227130. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0227130
Pipek, P., Pyšek, P., Bacher, S., Černá Bolfíková, B., & Hulme, P. (2020). “Independent introductions of hedgehogs to the North and South Island of New Zealand”. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 44(1). doi:10.20417/nzjecol.44.7
Pysek, P., Hulme, P. E., Simberloff, D., Bacher, S., Blackburn, T. M., Carlton, J. T., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Foxcroft, L. C., Genovesi, P., Jeschke, J .M., Kuhn, I., Liebhold, A. M., Mandrak, N. E., Meyerson, L. A., Pauchard, A., Pergl, J., Roy, H. E., Seebens, H., van Kleunen, M., Vila, M., Wingfield M. J., Richardson, D. M. (2020). “Scientists' warning on invasive alien species”. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. doi:10.1111/brv.12627
Rezania, S., Alizadeh, H., Cho, J., Darajeh, N., Park, J., Hashemi, B., Din, M.F.M., Krishnan, S., Yadav, K.K., Gupta, N., Kumar, S. (2019). “Changes in composition and structure of water hyacinth based on various pretreatment methods”. BioResources 14(3) pp6088-6099
Rivas-Franco, F., Hampton, J. G., Narciso, J., Rostás, M., Wessman, P., Saville, D. J., Jackson, A., Glare, T. R. (2020). “Effects of a maize root pest and fungal pathogen on entomopathogenic fungal rhizosphere colonization, endophytism and induction of plant hormones”. Biological Control, 150, 104347. doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2020.104347
Sapsford, S. J., Brandt, A. J., Davis, K. T., Peralta, G., Dickie, I. A., Gibson, R. D., Green, J. L., Hulme, P. E., Nuñez., M. A., Orwin, H., Pauchard A., Wardle, D. A., Peltzer, D. A., Violle, C. (2020). “Towards a framework for understanding the context dependence of impacts of non‐native tree species”. Functional Ecology, 34(5), 944-955. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13544
Sapsford, S. J., & Waller, L. P. (2020). “Seeing the forest not just for its trees: exotic pathogens shift forest communities aboveground and belowground”. New Phytol, 227(2), 283-285. doi:10.1111/nph.16612
Teixeira, C. S. P., Hampton, J. G., & Moot, D. J. (2020). “Reproductive development in subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.): A reanalysis of Oceania datasets”. European Journal of Agronomy, 119, 126123. doi:10.1016/j.eja.2020.126123
Teste, F. P., Jones, M. D., & Dickie, I. A. (2020). “Dual-mycorrhizal plants: their ecology and relevance”. New Phytol, 225(5), 1835-1851. doi:10.1111/nph.16190
Tiwari, S., Saville, D. J., Sharma, S., Shields, M. W., Wratten, S. D. (2020). “Evaluation of potential trap plant species for the wheat bug Nysius huttoni (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) in forage brassicas”. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 22(3), 263-273. doi:10.1111/afe.12379
Tiwari, S., Sharma, S., Wratten, S. D. (2020). “Flowering alyssum (Lobularia maritima) promote arthropod diversity and biological control of Myzus persicae”. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 23(3), 634-640. doi:10.1016/j.aspen.2020.05.002
Waller, L. P., Allen, W. J., Barratt, B. I. P., Condron, L. M., Franca, F. M., Hunt, J. E., Koele, N., Orwin, K. H., Steel, G. S., Tylianakis, J. M., Wakelin, S. A., Dickie, I. A. (2020). “Biotic interactions drive ecosystem responses to exotic plant invaders”. Science, 368(6494), 967-972. doi:10.1126/science.aba2225
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