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Companion and Smart Plants: Scientific Background to Promote Conservation Biological Control

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To attain sustainable agricultural crop protection, tools such as host plant resistance, enhanced ecosystem services (i.e. conserving natural enemies) and the deployment of companion plants should be promoted in pest management programmes. These agro system manipulations could be based on chemical ecology studies considering the interactions with natural enemies and pests, regarding specifically plant defence signalling. Further, new crop protection strategies might rise from widening the knowledge regarding how herbivore-induced plant volatiles can govern a multifaceted defence response including natural enemy recruitment, pest repellence or induced defence in neighbouring plants. It is crucial to use a multitrophic approach to understand better the interactions involving companion plants, herbivores and natural enemies in the field, increasing the knowledge to build more efficient and sustainable pest management strategies. In this review, we explore the perspectives of companion plants and their semiochemicals to promote conservation biological control according to the ‘smart plants’ concept. Further, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using companion plants and explore the application of companion plants in different agroecosystems using several case studies.

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This work received financial support from the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq), the Federal District Research Foundation (FAP-DF) and the Brazilian Corporation of Agricultural Research (EMBRAPA) (20.19.00.182.00.00). The work at Rothamsted forms part of the Smart Crop Protection (SCP) strategic programme (BBS/OS/CP/000001) funded through Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s GCRF Translation Awards BBSRC Reference: BB/R020000/1. Reported studies on coffee had support from CNPq and from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG). Reports studies on diversification from Santa Catarina State Agricultural Research and Rural Extension Agency (Epagri) had support from CNPq (429226/2018-7) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Estado de Santa Catarina (FAPESC - 2021TR001441).

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    Maria Carolina Blassioli-Moraes, Edison Ryoiti Sujii, Miguel Borges & Raúl Alberto Laumann

  2. Agriculture and Livestock Research Enterprise of Minas Gerais (EPAMIG), Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Madelaine Venzon

  3. Dept de Entomology, Univ Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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  8. Biointeractions and Crop Protection Dept, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK

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Blassioli-Moraes, M.C., Venzon, M., Silveira, L.C.P. et al. Companion and Smart Plants: Scientific Background to Promote Conservation Biological Control. Neotrop Entomol 51, 171–187 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-021-00939-2

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