Strategies for Effective Integrated Pest Management in Staple Crop Production
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 910
Special Issue Editors
Interests: IPM; biological control; egg parasitoids; economic thresholds; botanical insecticides
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Dear Colleagues,
The increasing demand for staple crops to feed a global population expected to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050 requires sustainable pest control strategies that not only achieve high crop yields but also preserve the environment and beneficial entomofauna within production agroecosystems. The overreliance on chemical insecticides has raised serious concerns regarding their negative side effects. Thus, integrated pest management (IPM) is the best way to protect yield through integrating different pest control tools. These include plant resistance (including Bt cultivars), adoption of economic thresholds (ETs), pest monitoring procedures, use of selective insecticides, biological control, botanical insecticides, and RNAi- and CRISPR-based control strategies, among other sustainable alternatives for managing arthropod population in agroecosystems. Therefore, innovative research on integrated pest management in different staple crops is urgently needed. This Special Issue welcomes review articles and original research papers addressing recent innovations in arthropod control aimed at sustainably managing their outbreaks in agroecosystems (staple crops). Emphasis is placed on studies that bridge laboratory research and field application to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of food production.
Dr. Adeney De Freitas Bueno
Guest Editor
Dr. Weidson Plauter Sutil
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- IPM
- pest monitoring
- biological control
- chemical control
- GM plants
- botanical insecticides
- genetic-based pest control methods
- RNAi
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