Eur. J. Entomol. 116: 194-200, 2019 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2019.021

The role of iron (Fe) in the population dynamics of pistachio psyllid, Agonoscena pistaciae (Hemiptera: Aphalaridae) in Pistacia orchardsOriginal article

Hossein DEHGHANI-YAKHDANI1, Shahzad IRANIPOUR1,*, Mohammad Reza MEHRNEJAD2, Reza FARSHBAF-POURABAD1
1 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran; e-mails: hosseindeh@yahoo.com, shiranipour@tabrizu.ac.ir, rfpourabad@tabrizu.ac.ir
2 Pistachio Research Institute, Rafsanjan, Iran; e-mail: Reza_mehrnejad@hotmail.com

The common pistachio psyllid (CPP) is thought to respond to nutrient availability in pistachio trees. We determined the effect of a deficiency of leaf iron (Fe) has on the abundance of the pistachio psyllid at a regional scale. First, we monitored the abundance pistachio psyllid in four pistachio orchards (24 trees as 24 repetitions) located in Maybod County, Yazd province in the centre of Iran and then measured leaf nutrient levels. Orchards were located up to 2.6 km apart. Multivariate regressions were used to determine the relationship between leaf nutrients and CPP population growth. The results indicate that the number of psyllid eggs and population growth rate of the nymphs was negatively correlated with Fe levels in the leaves, while peak numbers of psyllid eggs were positively correlated with the levels of Cu in the leaves. In a manipulative field experiment, we conducted two experiments: (1) pistachio trees treated with iron compared with control trees, and (2) pistachio trees previously treated with iron were treated with ammonium sulphate and compared with trees treated with ammonium sulphate. In the first experiment, psyllids in leaf disc-cages had a significantly greater intrinsic rate of population increase and net reproductive rate on Fe-treated trees than the control trees (Stage 1). In the second experiment, psyllids in leaf disc-cages had similar intrinsic rates of population increase and net reproduction both on the ammonium sulphate treated trees (control) and those previously treated with iron. This indicates that iron may have reacted negatively with nitrogen content of the leaves. In general, these findings indicate that when there is a deficiency of iron in the leaves, the application of nitrogen fertilizer had little effect on the performance of CPP and may have played a minor role in the population dynamics of CPP, but the application of a Fe fertilizer without considering the nitrogen content of the leaves may lead to a population outbreak.

Keywords: Hemiptera, Aphalaridae, Agonoscena pistaciae, pistachio psyllid, Pistacia, host plant quality, life table, nutrient fertilizer, population density, intrinsic rate of increase, central Iran

Received: February 9, 2019; Revised: April 23, 2019; Accepted: April 23, 2019; Published online: June 20, 2019  Show citation

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DEHGHANI-YAKHDANI, H., IRANIPOUR, S., MEHRNEJAD, M.R., & FARSHBAF-POURABAD, R. (2019). The role of iron (Fe) in the population dynamics of pistachio psyllid, Agonoscena pistaciae (Hemiptera: Aphalaridae) in Pistacia orchards. EJE, 116, Article 194-200. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2019.021
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