Development of pheromones for innovative management of Forest Bug, an emerging pest of orchards in England: FORBUG

开发信息素用于森林臭虫的创新管理，森林臭虫是英格兰果园的一种新兴害虫：FORBUG

• 批准号: 10027494
• 金额: $ 24.44万
• 依托单位: AGROVISTA UK LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10027494
• 关键词: Development; pheromones; innovative; management; Forest

Fruit-growing generates over £1 billion for the UK economy annually with apples and pears contributing over £250 million. Forest bug, Pentatoma rufipes, is an emerging pest in orchards, probably driven by the withdrawal of pesticides, and the effects of climate change. It causes fruit deformity and pitting which can result in up to 40% losses in productivity and waste due to unsaleable fruit. The pest is currently monitored by laborious scouting for the pest in orchard trees. This project, FORBUG, originally set out to identify and synthesise species-specific pheromones for forest bug that would have provided an innovative approach for monitoring and controlling this pest. Despite extensive studies no pheromone was identified, however the project team had a ‘Eureka’ moment towards the end of the project and were successful in demonstrating adult forest bugs were attracted to light. Hence, this finding offers an alternative solution to monitor and control adult forest bug in apple and pear orchards during peak times of flight in July. This approach will help reduce the need for conventional, chemical insecticides that disrupt integrated pest management programmes and potentially harm the environment. Hence the scope of the project is broadly the same, but the mechanism of monitoring and control, light instead of pheromone attraction, has changed. The project is led by Agrovista UK Ltd which is a leading supplier of agronomy advice, seed, crop protection products and precision farming services, working in partnership with horticultural growers. Other commercial partners are Avalon Fresh Ltd, an agronomic and technical advice provider across the fruit value chain and Russell IPM, a UK specialist producer of innovative products for pest and disease management. Russell IPM have been key in suggesting light as an attractant instead of pheromones and have expertise in light attraction of stink bugs. They are willing to provide light traps to continue research into 2024 so the momentum of this project which ends in March 2024 is not lost. The industry partners originally collaborated with scientists from NIAB and NRI who have internationally recognised expertise in identification, synthesis, and application of pheromones for monitoring and control of insect pests. NIAB have submitted a follow-on project to British Apples and Pears Ltd for funding in 2024.English apple and pear growers will be key to the follow-on project, and during FORBUG we have identified orchards where light attraction can be thoroughly tested. Because of the importance of the orchard industry to the UK economy, the outputs of a following project which involves the original expert team of partners will be particularly applicable here. It should be noted that, forest bug is a pest in other European countries, so the light attraction commercial outcomes will have much wider impacts with the potential for developing new skills and products outside the region.

水果种植每年为英国经济带来超过10亿英镑的收入，其中苹果和梨的收入超过2.5亿英镑。森林臭虫，Pentatoma rufipes，是一种新出现的果园害虫，可能是由于杀虫剂的退出和气候变化的影响。它会导致水果畸形和点蚀，这可能导致高达40%的生产力损失和因滞销而造成的浪费。目前，对这种害虫的监测是通过在果园树木中费力地侦察害虫来进行的。这个项目，FORBUG，最初是为了识别和合成森林昆虫的物种特异性信息素，这将为监测和控制这种害虫提供一种创新的方法。尽管进行了广泛的研究，但没有发现信息素，然而项目小组在项目结束时有一个“尤里卡”时刻，并成功地证明了成年森林昆虫被光吸引。因此，这一发现提供了一个替代的解决方案，以监测和控制成年森林错误在苹果和梨园在7月的飞行高峰期。这种方法将有助于减少对常规化学杀虫剂的需求，因为这些杀虫剂会破坏综合虫害管理方案，并可能损害环境。因此，该项目的范围大致相同，但监测和控制的机制，光而不是信息素的吸引力，已经改变。该项目由Agrovista UK Ltd领导，该公司是农艺咨询，种子，作物保护产品和精准农业服务的领先供应商，与园艺种植者合作。其他商业合作伙伴包括Avalon Fresh Ltd，一家水果价值链的农艺和技术咨询提供商，以及Russell IPM，一家英国专业生产病虫害管理创新产品的公司。罗素IPM一直在建议光作为引诱剂，而不是信息素的关键，并在光吸引臭虫的专业知识。他们愿意提供光阱，以继续研究到2024年，因此该项目的势头将于2024年3月结束。行业合作伙伴最初与NIAB和NRI的科学家合作，他们在识别，合成和应用信息素监测和控制昆虫害虫方面拥有国际公认的专业知识。NIAB已经向英国苹果和梨有限公司提交了一个后续项目，以获得2024年的资金。英国苹果和梨种植者将是后续项目的关键，在FORBUG期间，我们已经确定了可以彻底测试光吸引力的果园。由于果园产业对英国经济的重要性，涉及原始合作伙伴专家团队的后续项目的产出将特别适用于此。应该指出的是，森林臭虫在其他欧洲国家是一种害虫，因此光吸引力的商业成果将产生更广泛的影响，并有可能在该地区以外开发新的技能和产品。