John A. Pickett

Research interests

Publications

• Averting a malaria disaster: will insecticide resistance derail malaria control?

  The Lancet · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(15)00417-1

• Plant volatile‐mediated signalling and its application in agriculture: successes and challenges

  New Phytologist · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14274

• Resistance mutation conserved between insects and mites unravels the benzoylurea insecticide mode of action on chitin biosynthesis

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1618258113

• Achieving food security for one million sub-Saharan African poor through push–pull innovation by 2020

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0284

• Push–pull farming systems

  Current Opinion in Biotechnology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2013.12.006

• Underground signals carried through common mycelial networks warn neighbouring plants of aphid attack

  Ecology Letters · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12115

• Perception of plant volatile blends by herbivorous insects – Finding the right mix

  Phytochemistry · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2011.04.011

• Maize landraces recruit egg and larval parasitoids in response to egg deposition by a herbivore

  Ecology Letters · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01674.x

• Push—pull technology: a conservation agriculture approach for integrated management of insect pests, weeds and soil health in Africa

  International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.3763/ijas.2010.0558

• Exploiting phytochemicals for developing a 'push-pull' crop protection strategy for cereal farmers in Africa

  Journal of Experimental Botany · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erq229

• On-farm evaluation of the ‘push–pull’ technology for the control of stemborers and striga weed on maize in western Kenya

  Field Crops Research · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2007.12.002

• Chemical ecology and conservation biological control

  Biological Control · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2007.11.009

• Stressful “memories” of plants: Evidence and possible mechanisms

  Plant Science · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2007.09.002

• Integrated pest management: the push–pull approach for controlling insect pests and weeds of cereals, and its potential for other agricultural systems including animal husbandry

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.2173

• The Use of Push-Pull Strategies in Integrated Pest Management

  Annual Review of Entomology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ento.52.110405.091407

• Control of Witchweed Striga hermonthica by Intercropping with Desmodium spp., and the Mechanism Defined as Allelopathic

  Journal of Chemical Ecology · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1020525521180

• Habitat management strategies for the control of cereal stemborers and striga in maize in Kenya

  International Journal of Tropical Insect Science · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742758400008481

• Exploiting chemical ecology and species diversity: stem borer and striga control for maize and sorghum in Africa

  Pest Management Science · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1002/1526-4998(200011)56:11<957::aid-ps236>3.0.co;2-t

Current projects

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