Domínguez Ruiz, Javier; Sanchis Cabanes, Juan; Navarro-Llopis, Vicente; Primo Millo, Jaime(Oxford University Press, 2008)
[EN] New agricultural techniques are attempting to reduce the application of synthesized pesticides and replace them with new environmentally friendly methods such as mass trapping, mating disruption, or chemosterilization ...
The rejection of citrus fruit caused by infestations of the California red scale (CRS), Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), raises concerns about its management. This fact has led to the introduction ...
Vanaclocha, Pilar; Vacas González, Sandra; Alfaro Cañamás, Cristina; Primo Millo, Jaime; Verdu, Maria J.; Navarro-Llopis, Vicente; Urbaneja, Alberto(Wiley, 2012-07)
BACKGROUND: In recent years, environmentally safe measures to control the California red scale (CRS), Aonidiella aurantii
(Maskell), have been successfully implemented. These measures include mating disruption (MD) and ...
Brenes-Torres, Juan Carlos; Blanes Noguera, Francisco; Simó Ten, José Enrique(MDPI AG, 2022-06)
[EN] Swarm robotics finds inspiration in nature to model behaviors, such as the use of pheromone principles. Pheromones provide an indirect and decentralized communication scheme that have shown positive experimental ...
Vacas González, Sandra; Vanaclocha, Pilar; Alfaro Cañamás, Cristina; Primo Millo, Jaime; Verdú, M.; Urbaneja García, Alberto; Navarro-Llopis, Vicente(Wiley, 2012-01)
Background: New directives on sustainable use of pesticides have encouraged research on efficient alternative pest control methods. In the case of the California red scale (CRS), Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell), this imperative, ...
[EN] BACKGROUND: The control of California red scale, Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell), has encountered many difficulties, which has raised interest in alternative control methods. Up to now, the A. aurantii sex pheromone has ...
Attractants and pheromones are commonly used in integrated pest management programs in crop systems. However, pheromone dispensers employed in monitoring traps and lure and kill devices are not usually well studied and ...
Domínguez de la Cruz, Rosy Elizabeth(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014-11-18)
[EN] Several synthetical approaches have been developed for the synthesis of 6-methyl-5-heptenenitrile starting from available commercial compounds. This compound could be a key intermediate for the synthesis of a cyclobutane ...
Vacas González, Sandra; Miñarro, M; Bosch, MD; Primo Millo, Jaime; Navarro Llopis, Vicente(Entomological society of America, 2013)
[EN] The response of the codling moth (Cydia pomonella L. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)) to different emission values of its main pheromone component, 8E,10E-dodecadien-1-ol (codlemone), was investigated in three field trials ...
BACKGROUND: The tomato leafminer (Tuta absoluta Povolny) has rapidly colonised the whole Mediterranean and South-Atlantic coasts of Spain, and it has become a key problem in both outdoor and greenhouse crops. New control ...
Vacas González, Sandra; Alfaro Cañamás, Cristina; Navarro-Llopis, Vicente; Zarzo Castelló, Manuel; Primo, J.; Primo Millo, Jaime(Oxford University Press, 2009-06)
Traditional chemical control against Chilo suppressalis Walker is currently being replaced in Spain by new methods based on pheromones. A key step to improve the efficacy of these methods is the determination of the optimum ...