A national management group has declared the pest Russian wheat aphid (RWA) endemic and unlikely to be eradicated. The cereal crop aphid was first found in South Australia's mid-north on May 13 ...

Eleven members of the Oklahoma State University’s Wheat Improvement Team are doing their part to help feed the world.

The pest was first detected in South Australia in May last year and has since been found across Victoria, in southern NSW and most recently in Tasmania. Speaking at the recent Grains Research and ...

FARMERS have been urged to keep a close eye on their emerging crops after the detection for the first time in Australia of the Russian wheat aphid at several sites in the Mid North.

Russian wheat aphid is a major global pest of wheat, barley and some grasses, it can cause significant yield losses and until the detection three weeks ago was not believed to exist in Australia.

What started out as a query by local crop adviser Andrew Parkinson about an unusual-looking bug in the farmer’s young wheat crop, cascaded two days later into government officials in protective ...

Spatio-temporal variations in wheat aphid populations and their natural enemies in four agro-ecological zones of Pakistan. PLOS ONE , 2019; 14 (9): e0222635 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222635 Cite ...

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A controversial field trial of genetically-modified wheat has failed to demonstrate that the GM crop can repel aphid pests as scientists had predicted from previous laboratory studies.

In Chile, the aphid Sitobion avenae is of recent introduction, lives on cultivated and wild Poaceae, and is thought to reproduce by permanent parthenogenesis. In order to study the genetic ...