English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Allium triquetrum  L. (Amaryllidaceae), a bulbiferous monocot, is native to the Mediterranean. It was introduced to Australia in the early 1900s, where it has subsequently become a significant invader of temperate forests throughout south-eastern Australia. Intensive chemical and mechanical control methods can suppress  A. triquetrum  infestations at the local scale for short periods of time but remain ineffective at sustainably curtailing its invasion at landscape and regional scales. In this context, we undertook field surveys across the Mediterranean (mainland France, Corsica, Sardinia) to determine the feasibility of developing classical biological control solutions for  A. triquetrum  in Australia. Despite extensive sampling (i.e. 30 surveys at 18 sites over three growing seasons), very few phytophagous arthropod and fungal pathogen taxa were detected on  A. triquetrum . The most common arthropod species were the flies  Phytomyza gymnostoma  and  Delia hirticrura , the weevil  Oprohinus consputus  and the moth  Hysterophora maculosana . All identified arthropod taxa were considered generalists, having been found on other plant species, and some are known pests of cultivated  Allium  species. Twenty-one different fungal isolates were recovered from  A. triquetrum , with most considered as saprophytic, secondary/opportunistic pathogens that probably infected already-damaged  A. triquetrum  leaves. Only four fungal taxa were found to be primary pathogens of  A. triquetrum  but have been recorded to infect other plant species. None of these enemy taxa were deemed to be suitable candidate biocontrol agents to help manage  A. triquetrum  invasion in Australia. Future research directions for improved  A. triquetrum  management in Australia are discussed in this paper.

Feasibility of developing classical biological control solutions for the herbaceous weed Allium triquetrum in Australia