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Title: Editorial: Special issue highlighting research presented at the 25th IWGO Conference, Chicago 2014

Author
item KUHLMANN, ULRICH - Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International (CABI) - Switzerland
item Sappington, Thomas
item WANG, ZHENYING - Chinese Academy Of Agricultural Sciences

Submitted to: Journal of Applied Entomology
Publication Type: Other
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/2/2015
Publication Date: 7/1/2015
Citation: Kuhlmann, U., Sappington, T.W., Wang, Z. 2015. Editorial: Special issue highlighting research presented at the 25th IWGO Conference, Chicago 2014. Journal of Applied Entomology. 139(6):401-402.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: A joint international conference was held among corn insect entomologists from 15 countries at the Allerton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois on April 13-17, 2014. It combined the 25th IWGO (International Working Group on Ostrinia and other maize pests) Conference with the 4th Diabrotica Genetics Conference, and the two North Central Corn Entomologist Technical Committees NCCC46 and NC205. This is the first time all of these groups have met together at the same time, providing a platform for information exchange and research updates on corn insect pests of mutual concern to entomologists globally. Beginning in 2007, IWGO began a collaboration with the Journal of Applied Entomology to publish selected manuscripts from papers presented during the IWGO Conferences. Based on this ongoing positive relationship, IWGO now again has the opportunity to publish eight selected manuscripts presented during the 25th IWGO Conference in this special issue. These eight papers provide examples of the kind of high-quality current research activities reported on and discussed during the 25th IWGO Conference.