Ecological Infrastructure Management for Enhanced Pollination and Targeted Precision Biocontrol

Il progetto si propone di migliorare qualità e quantità delle produzioni biologiche attraverso un innovativo sistema di protezione delle piante dalle malattie grazie all’azione degli insetti impollinatori (o pronubi). BICOPOLL prevede infatti lo studio degli impollinatori per il trasporto di microrganismi antagonisti di pericolose malattie che penetrano attraverso il fiore. L’utilizzo dei pronubi per queste finalità implica: • Lo sviluppo di speciali dispenser applicati all’uscita dell’arnia delle api o dei nidi di bombi e api solitarie. • Lo sviluppo di substrati in polvere adatti a disperdere i microrganismi antagonisti da collocare nei dispenser

ECOLOGICAL Infrastructure Management Enhanced Pollination and Targeted Precision Biocontrol: The BICOPOLL Project

The project focuses on two main topics: 1 - the use of pollinators to carry to the target crop flowers beneficial microorganisms that act as antagonists of plant pathogens that penetrate through the flowers; 2 - the improvement of the pollination of organic horticultural and fruit crops

Developing European conservation and mitigation tools for pollination services: approaches of the STEP (Status and Trends of European Pollinators) project

Pollinating insects form a key component of European biodiversity, and provide a vital ecosystem service to crops and wild plants. There is growing evidence of declines in both wild and domesticated pollinators, and parallel declines in plants relying upon them. The STEP project (Status and Trends of European Pollinators, 2010-2015, www.stepproject.net) is documenting critical elements in the nature and extent of these declines, examining key functional traits associated with pollination deficits, and developing a Red List for some European pollinator groups. Together these activities are laying the groundwork for future pollinator monitoring programmes. STEP is also assessing the relative importance of potential drivers of pollinator declines, including climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation, agrochemicals, pathogens, alien species, light pollution, and their interactions. We are measuring the ecological and economic impacts of declining pollinator services and floral resources, including effects on wild plant populations, crop production and human nutrition. STEP is reviewing existing and potential mitigation options, and providing novel tests of their effectiveness across Europe. Our work is building upon existing and newly developed datasets and models, complemented by spatially-replicated campaigns of field research to fill gaps in current knowledge. Findings are being integrated into a policy-relevant framework to create evidence-based decision support tools. STEP is establishing communication links to a wide range of stakeholders across Europe and beyond, including policy makers, beekeepers, farmers, academics and the general public. Taken together, the STEP research programme aims to improve our understanding of the nature, causes, consequences and potential mitigation of declines in pollination services at local, national, continental and global scales

Aromatic sulfines with nitrilimines. : A regiospecific, non-stereospecific cyclo-addition reaction

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Nest recognition and individual nest marking in Osmia cornuta (Latreille) (Hymenoptera Megachilidae): Preliminary study

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Cyclo-addition reactions of thiofluorenone with nitrones

Thiofluorenone reacts with C-phenyl-N-methylnitrone to give initially a 1,2,5-oxathiazolidine. Spontaneous loss of sulphur monoxide then produces a dipolar species which reacts with a second molecule of thiofluorenone to give 1,2-thiazolidine