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Project code: 1-08-046


Investigations of basic elements of Integrated Pest Managament


Main researcher: MACELJSKI, MILAN (27035)


Assistants
Type of research: basic
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 01/01/95.
Papers on project (total): 160
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 3
Institution name: Agronomski fakultet, Zagreb (178)
Department/Institute: Institute for Agriculture Zoology
Address: Svetošimunska 25
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
Communication
Phone: 385 (0)1 23 35 777/3023
Phone: 385 (0)1 23 35 777/3020
Phone: 385 (0)1 23 35 777/3016
Fax: 385 (0)1 2335777 3022
E-mail: macelski@magr.agr.hr
E-mail: dbertic@magr.agr.hr
Summary: During three years of research about 40 various items were investigated. The knowledge of these scientific items is necessary to implement the integrated plant management. The stress was put on research of the nuisible and beneficial fauna and flora, and the influence of various measures on these organisms, on the possibilities of biological, mechanical and physical control of pests, on the establishing and solving the problems of resistance of the Colorado Potato Beetle, Botrytis and Chenopodium album, on improving the methods of testing seeds and seedling materials, on the rationalisation and optimalisation of pesticide applications etc. During the period 1991. - 1995.y. published were 111 scientific or professional article in journals, 16 in Proceedings, 11 summaries in proceedings, 3 books, 1 participation in a book, 3 masters thesis of project collaborators, 13 times mentors of masters thesis, 2 tehnical reports, 1 script and 2 unpublished presentations, all connected with this project.

Keywords: integrated pest management, ecology, biological control

Research goals: The Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a system which includes all, especially nonpesticidal, methods of protecting plants from economical damages caused by pests. This system must minimize environmental pollution and the use of energy, and maximize the safety of human beings and of natural enemies of pests. The implementation of an IPM should enable a sustainable, ecologically suitable and profitable agricultural production on farms in Croatia. The implementations of an IPM depends on a large knowledge of many basic data on the ecology of plant pests, their natural enemies, the relations plant - pest, side effects of pesticides etc. Results of such investigations obtained in other countries are only partly useful in conditions of Croatia. Therefore in this project research of the nuisible and beneficial fauna will be effectuated and its dependence to various measures established. The possibilities of biological, mechanical and physical control of some pests will be tested and the appearance, spread and control of resistant populations of the Colorado Potato Beetle, the fungus Botrytis and the weed Chenopodium album established. The rationalisation and optimalisation of the use of pesticides will be studied and ecologiccally and economically more suitable pesticides tested.

COOPERATION - INSTITUTIONS


  1. Name of institution: Zoološki muzej
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  2. Name of institution: USDA, ARS, Foreign Diseaese - Weed Science Res.
    Type of institution: State institute
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: Fort Detrick, SAD

  3. Name of institution: Institut za jadranske kulture i melioraciju krša
    Type of institution: State institute
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: 21000 - Split, Croatia

  4. Name of institution: Zavod za zaštitu bilja u poljoprivredi i šumarstvu R.H.
    Type of institution: State institute
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
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