A multi- and interdisciplinary approach to understand spatio-temporal patterns of insect pests and design landscapes for sustainable pest management in tropical agricultural systems

• Grant number: 16/11127-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: October 01, 2016
• End date: June 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Wesley Augusto Conde Godoy
• Grantee: Pedro Augusto da Pos Rodrigues
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 14/16609-7 - A multi - and interdisciplinary approach to understand spatio-temporal patterns of insect pests and design landscapes for sustainable pest management in tropical agricultural systems, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/03415-8 - A pipeline for metatranscriptome analysis of gene expression at the community level of insect microbial symbionts, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

Larvae of S. frugiperda and H. armigera will be collected on different host plants on a major agricultural producing area of the state of Bahia, represented by the following crops: soybean, corn, cotton, millet and beans. Gut microbial diversity will be determined through metagenomic analysis. Larvae collected from each host plant will have their gut dissected and the microbiota associated with the midgut will be collected and pooled for RNA extraction. (AU)