Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0990713
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Phylogeography and host specificity of stemborer parasitoids: essential components for the pre-emptive biocontrol of sugarcane pests in Australia. Stemboring insects cause huge economic losses to the sugar industry world-wide but fortunately these pests are largely absent from Australia, in part because quarantine measures have prevented their introduction. However, given their proximity, incursion of foreign stemborers from Asia pose a serious threat to Australian sugarcane. To prepare effective pest management plans that can be adopted promptly in a worst-case scenario, this study will 1) develop molecular diagnostic tools to select wasp biocontrol agents that are suitable for the control of specific foreign stemborer pests, and 2) evaluate whether any Australian native wasps have the ability to kill foreign stemborers.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 10-2009
End Date: 12-2013
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $265,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Protection (Pests, Diseases And Weeds) | Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Ecology And Evolution Not Elsewhere Classified | Evolutionary Biology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Sugar | Biological sciences | Control of pests and exotic species |
