Determinants of host specificity of potential biocontrol agents
Project goals
The ideal biocontrol agent is a monophagous insect. Only like this we can guarantee that it will not affect other species in the community. The data on host specificity of insect herbivores, are, however, very sparse. Collecting good information of thistype requires large scale sampling of insect herbivores on many different species. In this project we suggest an alternative approach using data on large number of traits of the plant and the insect and using this knowledge to predict potential hosts ofthe herbivores. Specifically we plan to combine field observations of plant herbivore associations with feeding experiment and plant and insect trait measurements including composition of secondary metabolites in the plant. We will use the species traitsto predict the results of the field observations and feeding experiment. In this way we will identify traits that can be used to predict host specificity of insect herbivores and thus develop a predictive tool that will allows to identify possible host
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Public support
Provider
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Programme
KONTAKT
Call for proposals
KONTAKT 8 (SMSM2010ME5)
Main participants
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Contest type
VS - Public tender
Contract ID
2062/2011-320
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
Faktory určující hostitelskou specificitu potenciálních biokontrolních agentů
Annotation in Czech
Cílem projektu je identifikovat vlastnosti, které umožní predikovat hostitelskou specializaci hmyzích herbivorů a tak identifikovat možné hostitele hmyzu bez časově náročných terénních sledování a pokusů. Verifikovat vytvořený model s využitím dat z USA.
Scientific branches
R&D category
AP - Applied research
CEP classification - main branch
EH - Ecology - communities
CEP - secondary branch
GF - Diseases, pests, weeds and plant protection
CEP - another secondary branch
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10618 - Ecology
10619 - Biodiversity conservation
40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)
Completed project evaluation
Provider evaluation
U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)
Project results evaluation
The output includes a database that links data on herbivory and species characteristics of the plants, the prediction of the relationship between characteristics of leaves and leaf herbivory based on species from Europe and the validation of the predictions using data from U.S. and prediction of host specificity of selected species of beetles based of characteristics of their flower heads.
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
May 1, 2010
Realization period - end
Dec 31, 2012
Project status
U - Finished project
Latest support payment
Feb 16, 2012
Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP13-MSM-ME-U/01:1
Data delivery date
Jun 28, 2013
Finance
Total approved costs
3,000 thou. CZK
Public financial support
3,000 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
0 thou. CZK
Basic information
Recognised costs
3 000 CZK thou.
Public support
3 000 CZK thou.
100%
Provider
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
CEP
EH - Ecology - communities
Solution period
01. 05. 2010 - 31. 12. 2012