Joe M. Roberts

Dispersal responses of cereal aphids to wheat cultivar and planting configuration

Abstract Cultivar mixtures are advocated as an agroecological strategy for suppressing cereal aphid vectors and reducing barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) transmission, yet their effects on within‐crop dispersal remain largely untested, particularly across vector species and virus...

Reconsidering the importance of M etopolophium dirhodum ( W alker) ( H emiptera: A phididae) as a crop pest

Abstract Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) causes major yield losses in temperate cereals. In many regions, management of BYDV has focused on Rhopalosiphum padi as the primary vector of BYDV‐PAV and Sitobion avenae as the primary vector of BYDV‐MAV. By contrast, the significance o...