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Fourie, Arista
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Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas)
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Slippers, Bernard
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Fourie, Gerda
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2022-08-11T11:23:25Z |
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2022-04 |
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The two-spotted stink bug, Bathycoelia distincta Distant (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), is a serious pest in South African macadamia orchards. This pest is predominantly controlled using insecticides, thus alternative control methods are essential. The stink bugs arrive as adults in the orchards, during the early nut set season, but little is known about their alternative plant hosts before their arrival. The aim of this study was to develop a PCR-based metabarcoding assay to identify plant material in the gut of B. distincta. Thereafter, the persistence of plant DNA in the gut, after switching food sources, was determined by rearing the stink bugs on Zea mays L. (Cyperales: Poaceae), transferring them to Macadamia sp. and then collecting insects at different time points. As a proof of concept, the assay was tested on insects collected from commercial macadamia orchards to determine if it can identify alternative food sources. The chloroplast gene markers, trnL and trnF, were most successful for plant DNA amplification. The time trial suggested that plant material can be detected 24 h after switching to the alternate food source and one of the samples still contained Z. mays DNA after five days. Various plant species were detected from the orchard collected samples, including known food sources of other stink bugs, such as tea plants (Camellia sinensis L. (Ericales:Theaceae)) and sunflowers (Helianthus annuus L. (Asterales: Asteraceae)). This study provides the first indication of potential alternative food sources of B. distincta. The assay developed in this study can now be implemented for large-scale field surveys to contribute to future integrated pest management strategies. |
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dc.description.department |
Biochemistry |
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Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) |
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dc.description.department |
Genetics |
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Microbiology and Plant Pathology |
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2023-01-13 |
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hj2022 |
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https://jee.oxfordjournals.org |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Arista Fourie, Stephanus N Venter, Bernard Slippers, Gerda Fourie, A Detection Assay to Identify Alternative Food Sources of the Two-Spotted Stink Bug, Bathycoelia distincta (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 115, Issue 2, April 2022, Pages 519–525, https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toab256. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0022-0493 (print) |
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1938-291X (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1093/jee/toab256 |
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https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/86760 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Oxford University Press |
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dc.rights |
The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America. All rights reserved. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Entomology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is : 'A detection assay to identify alternative food sources of the two-spotted stink bug, Bathycoelia distincta (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)', Journal of Economic Entomology, vol. 115, no. 2, pp. 519-525, 2022, doi : 10.1093/jee/toab256. Journal of Economic Entomology is available online at : https://jee.oxfordjournals.org. |
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dc.subject |
Hemiptera |
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Pentatomidae |
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Food assay |
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Metabarcoding |
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Stink bug |
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Two-spotted stink bug (Bathycoelia distincta) |
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dc.title |
A detection assay to identify alternative food sources of the two-spotted stink bug, Bathycoelia distincta (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) |
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Postprint Article |
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