Laboratory

INSECTS REARING: In our Laboratory of Entomology, we have available insect rearing system of the main phytophagus and sucking insects to conduct laboratory screening test.
The rearing system are available for:

  • Cotton leaf worm (Spodoptera littoralis)
  • Sweet potato whitefly (Bemisia tabaci)
  • Brown marmorated stink bug (Halymorpha halys)
  • Cotton aphid (Aphis gossypii)
  • Tomato leafminer (Tuta absoluta)
INSECTICIDES SCREENING TESTS: Laboratory and/or Semi-field tests to evaluate the efficacy of new prototypes and formulates with insecticide activity (against eggs, larvae, adults) or with repellence activity.
 
  • ACUTE TOXITICY: Topic, spray and/or dip application of plants (or plant parts), to evaluate the knock-down effect of substances controlling phytophagus and sucking insects.
  • PERSISTENCE: Spray and/or dip application of plants (or plant parts), to evaluate the residual effect of substances controlling phytophagus and sucking insects.
  • SOIL TREATMENTS: Drip application in potted plants, to evaluate the translocation of systemic active ingredients through plant vascular tissues.
  • RAINFASTNESS: Exposition of treated plants to artificial rain to evaluate the rain effect on the washout of the tested formulate/prototype.


FUNGICIDE SCREENING TESTS
: In our Phytopathology laboratory we perform isolation and selection of phytopathological fungi and bacteria and their vitro/vivo cultivation to produce pure inoculum strains useful to perform:

  • LABORATORY SCREENING: in vitro and in vivo
  • EVALUATION OF THE FUNGICIDES RESISTENCE
  • SEROLOGICAL ANALYSIS (TEST ELISA)
  • POST-HARVEST TESTS
  • FIELD AND SEMI-FIELD TESTS