Biological Control as Part of the Soybean Integrated Pest Management (IPM): Potential and Challenges

• Autores: Bueno, Adeney de F.; Sutil, Weidson P.; Jahnke, Simone M.; Carvalho, Geraldo A.; Cingolani, Maria Fernanda; Colmenarez, Yelitza C.; Corniani, Natália
• Año de publicación: 2022
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: PLAGAS; CONTROL BIOLOGICO; NIVELES DE DAÑO ECONOMICO; ENEMIGOS NATURALES
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Soybean production is usually performed on large scales, requiring simple but efficient pest management to be successful. Soybean fields are inhabited by several species of arthropods, demanding constant development of management practices to prevent pest outbreaks. More recently, stink bugs have become the most important pest group of soybeans in the Neotropics, responsible for up to 60% of the applied insecticides in Brazil. Natural enemies represent an important mortality factor that can keep the damage caused by stink bugs below the economic threshold levels without additional control actions. Thus, Conservation Biological Control (CBC) strategies can be adopted to preserve or even promote the increase in such natural enemies in the fields, or alternatively, massive releases of biocontrol agents in Augmentative Biological Control (ABC) programs could be adopted. Simple practices such as reducing insecticide use (with the adoption of economic thresholds), prioritizing harmless insecticides or biopesticides, and planting resistant soybean cultivars have been adopted in Brazil with positive results. The challenges to increasing the adoption of more complex stink bug management in commodity crops such as soybean may be overcome using the more recent economic incentives in the global agenda of decarbonized agriculture. The potential and challenges of conservation and augmentative biological control are further discussed in this review.
Fil: Bueno, Adeney de F.. No especifíca;
Fil: Sutil, Weidson P.. Universidade Federal do Paraná; Brasil
Fil: Jahnke, Simone M.. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Brasil
Fil: Carvalho, Geraldo A.. Universidad Federal de Lavras.; Brasil
Fil: Cingolani, Maria Fernanda. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores; Argentina
Fil: Colmenarez, Yelitza C.. No especifíca;
Fil: Corniani, Natália. No especifíca;