International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Biology

Characterizing Herbivore Resistance Mechanisms: Spittlebugs on Brachiaria spp. as an Example

Soroush Parsa¹, Guillermo Sotelo¹, Cesar Cardona¹

¹International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CIAT

This video explains mechanisms of host plant resistance to herbivory and demonstrates a no-choice test that estimates the relative contributions of antibiosis and tolerance to spittlebug resistance in Brachiaria spp.

Bioengineering

Establishing Fungal Entomopathogens as Endophytes: Towards Endophytic Biological Control

Soroush Parsa¹, Viviana Ortiz¹, Fernando E. Vega²

¹Entomology, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia , ²Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, USA

This protocol demonstrates two inoculation methods to introduce the fungal entomopathogen Beauveria bassiana as an endophyte in the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), in preparation for subsequent evaluations of endophytic biological control.