You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
X Demographics
Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Is the efficacy of biological control against plant diseases likely to be more durable than that of chemical pesticides?
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Plant Science, July 2015
|
| DOI | 10.3389/fpls.2015.00566 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marc Bardin, Sakhr Ajouz, Morgane Comby, Miguel Lopez-Ferber, Benoît Graillot, Myriam Siegwart, Philippe C. Nicot |
| Abstract |
The durability of a control method for plant protection is defined as the persistence of its efficacy in space and time. It depends on (i) the selection pressure exerted by it on populations of plant pathogens and (ii) on the capacity of these pathogens to adapt to the control method. Erosion of effectiveness of conventional plant protection methods has been widely studied in the past. For example, apparition of resistance to chemical pesticides in plant pathogens or pests has been extensively documented. The durability of biological control has often been assumed to be higher than that of chemical control. Results concerning pest management in agricultural systems have shown that this assumption may not always be justified. Resistance of various pests to one or several toxins of Bacillus thuringiensis and apparition of resistance of the codling moth Cydia pomonella to the C. pomonella granulovirus have, for example, been described. In contrast with the situation for pests, the durability of biological control of plant diseases has hardly been studied and no scientific reports proving the loss of efficiency of biological control agents against plant pathogens in practice has been published so far. Knowledge concerning the possible erosion of effectiveness of biological control is essential to ensure a durable efficacy of biological control agents on target plant pathogens. This knowledge will result in identifying risk factors that can foster the selection of strains of plant pathogens resistant to biological control agents. It will also result in identifying types of biological control agents with lower risk of efficacy loss, i.e., modes of action of biological control agents that does not favor the selection of resistant isolates in natural populations of plant pathogens. An analysis of the scientific literature was then conducted to assess the potential for plant pathogens to become resistant to biological control agents. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 2 | 40% |
| Denmark | 1 | 20% |
| Canada | 1 | 20% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Scientists | 1 | 20% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 383 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Poland | 2 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 372 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 80 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 60 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 43 | 11% |
| Researcher | 40 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 4% |
| Other | 53 | 14% |
| Unknown | 91 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 196 | 51% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 38 | 10% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 11 | 3% |
| Engineering | 8 | 2% |
| Environmental Science | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 18 | 5% |
| Unknown | 106 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 July 2016.
All research outputs
#6,372,431
of 22,818,766 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Plant Science
#3,612
of 20,116 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#74,079
of 262,972 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Plant Science
#30
of 260 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,818,766 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 71st percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 20,116 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 262,972 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 260 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.