Potential of Cover Crops to Control Arthropod Pests in Organic Viticulture
Plant diversity has the potential to conserve beneficials and thereby naturally controlling arthropod pests. Beneficials’ activity can be increased by pollen-rich plant species. Here we aimed to develop innovative viticultural systems that naturally control arthropod pests, by increasing plant diver...
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| author | Aurora RANCA Anne Laure FRAGNIERE Sergiu Ayar ENE Špela MODIC Vittorio ROSSI Tito CAFFI Jaka Razinger Eugenia RODRIGO SANTAMALIA Daniel WIPF |
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| description | Plant diversity has the potential to conserve beneficials and thereby naturally controlling arthropod pests. Beneficials’ activity can be increased by pollen-rich plant species. Here we aimed to develop innovative viticultural systems that naturally control arthropod pests, by increasing plant diversity within vineyards planting of selected cover crops. The experimental vineyards were set-up in Chablis (France), Piacenza (Italy), Murfatlar (Romania), Manče (Slovenia), Valencia (Spain) and Nyon (Switzerland). Each vineyard was divided in a traditional and innovative subplot and monitored in 2019 and 2020. The effect of cover crops on arthropods was assessed according to a common protocol using visual samplings and specific traps. Analysing the obtained data, there were no statistically significant differences in the abundance of sampled arthropod pests in the innovative and the traditional systems. Yet, two of five studied pest species tended to be less abundant in the innovative systems. Regarding arthropod beneficials, flying parasitoids and bees tended to benefit from the planting of cover crops in the innovative compared to the traditional systems. Alike, predators such as spiders and carabids were more abundant in vineyards with understorey vegetation. Overall, the arthropod biodiversity seems to benefit from the planting of cover crops but without necessarily favouring pest suppression. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8af62527b1fc4b6eb7d151c9335fb9522022-12-22T03:26:10ZengAcademicPresBulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca: Horticulture1843-52541843-53942022-06-01791414610.15835/buasvmcn-hort:2021.004111745Potential of Cover Crops to Control Arthropod Pests in Organic ViticultureAurora RANCA0Anne Laure FRAGNIERE1Sergiu Ayar ENE2Špela MODIC3Vittorio ROSSI4Tito CAFFI5Jaka Razinger6Eugenia RODRIGO SANTAMALIA7Daniel WIPF8Research Station for Viticulture and Enology Murfatlar, 905100 MurfatlarAgroscope, Route de Duillier 50, CP 1012, 1260 Nyon 1, SuisseResearch Station for Viticulture and Enology Murfatlar, 905100 MurfatlarAgricultural Institute of Slovenia, Hacquetova ulica 17, 1000 LjubljanaUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, via E. Parmense 84, 29122 PiacenzaUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, via E. Parmense 84, 29122 PiacenzaAgricultural Institute of Slovenia, Hacquetova ulica 17, 1000 LjubljanaInstituto Agroforestal Mediterráneo, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera S/N, 46022 ValenciaAgroSup Dijon, CNRS, INRA, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 21000 DijonPlant diversity has the potential to conserve beneficials and thereby naturally controlling arthropod pests. Beneficials’ activity can be increased by pollen-rich plant species. Here we aimed to develop innovative viticultural systems that naturally control arthropod pests, by increasing plant diversity within vineyards planting of selected cover crops. The experimental vineyards were set-up in Chablis (France), Piacenza (Italy), Murfatlar (Romania), Manče (Slovenia), Valencia (Spain) and Nyon (Switzerland). Each vineyard was divided in a traditional and innovative subplot and monitored in 2019 and 2020. The effect of cover crops on arthropods was assessed according to a common protocol using visual samplings and specific traps. Analysing the obtained data, there were no statistically significant differences in the abundance of sampled arthropod pests in the innovative and the traditional systems. Yet, two of five studied pest species tended to be less abundant in the innovative systems. Regarding arthropod beneficials, flying parasitoids and bees tended to benefit from the planting of cover crops in the innovative compared to the traditional systems. Alike, predators such as spiders and carabids were more abundant in vineyards with understorey vegetation. Overall, the arthropod biodiversity seems to benefit from the planting of cover crops but without necessarily favouring pest suppression.https://journals.usamvcluj.ro/index.php/horticulture/article/view/14424conservation biological controlpest controlfunctional diversity |
| spellingShingle | Aurora RANCA Anne Laure FRAGNIERE Sergiu Ayar ENE Špela MODIC Vittorio ROSSI Tito CAFFI Jaka Razinger Eugenia RODRIGO SANTAMALIA Daniel WIPF Potential of Cover Crops to Control Arthropod Pests in Organic Viticulture Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca: Horticulture conservation biological control pest control functional diversity |
| title | Potential of Cover Crops to Control Arthropod Pests in Organic Viticulture |
| title_full | Potential of Cover Crops to Control Arthropod Pests in Organic Viticulture |
| title_fullStr | Potential of Cover Crops to Control Arthropod Pests in Organic Viticulture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Potential of Cover Crops to Control Arthropod Pests in Organic Viticulture |
| title_short | Potential of Cover Crops to Control Arthropod Pests in Organic Viticulture |
| title_sort | potential of cover crops to control arthropod pests in organic viticulture |
| topic | conservation biological control pest control functional diversity |
| url | https://journals.usamvcluj.ro/index.php/horticulture/article/view/14424 |
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