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SUBMITTER: Choudhury RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7469163 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choudhury Robin A RA Sutherland Andrew M AM Hengel Matt J MJ Parrella Michael P MP Gubler W Douglas WD
Insects 20200803 8
Applications of systemic pesticides can have unexpected direct and indirect effects on nontarget organisms, producing ecosystem-level impacts. We investigated whether a systemic insecticide (imidacloprid) could be absorbed by a plant pathogenic fungus infecting treated plants and whether the absorbed levels were high enough to have detrimental effects on the survival of a mycophagous beetle. Beetle larvae fed on these fungi were used to assess the survival effects of powdery mildew and imidaclop ...[more]