Plant Protection Science

ISSN 1212-2580 (Print)
ISSN 1805-9341 (On-line)

An international open access peer-reviewed journal published by the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Founded in 1921 (by 1997 under the title Ochrana rostlin).

The journal is administered by an international Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief: prof. Ing. Aleš Lebeda, DrSc.
Co-editor: prof. Ing. Radovan Pokorný, Ph.D.
Executive Editor: Ing. Eva Karská
Technical Editor: Ing. Bc. Ilona Adamírová
The journal is published quarterly

Aims & Scope

original papers, short communications, critical reviews, personal news, and book reviews covering all areas of diseases and pests of plants, weeds and plant protection. Articles are published in English.

Current issue

Advancements in sensor-based weed management: Navigating the future of weed controlReview

Santhappan Vignesh, Palanisamy Murali Arthanari, Rengabashyam Kalpana, Ranganathan Umarani, Subburamu Karthikeyan, Ponnusamy Janaki

Plant Protect. Sci., 2025, 61(2):95-109 | DOI: 10.17221/76/2024-PPS

Controlling weed populations in agricultural land is challenging due to various factors, such as soil conditions, crop type, and environmental conditions. Substantial experience is needed to develop a strategy for minimising pressure from weed infestation. For a relatively longer period, weed control was taken care of using herbicides and mechanical and manual weeding. While herbicides simplify weed control, they pose issues like residual effects and the development of herbicide resistance in weeds, necessitating the deployment of alternate smart weed-management technologies. Lately, smart weeding robots and sensor-based site-specific spraying systems...

Sustainable medicinal plant production – responses of Lamiaceae plants to organic acid elicitors spraying during environmental stress: A reviewReview

Ismail Mahmoud Ali Shahhat, Arbi Guetat, Salma Yousif Sidahmed Elsheik, Medhat Ahmed Abu-Tahon, Abdelrahman Talha Abdelwahab, Marwa Abdelfattah Awad

Plant Protect. Sci., 2025, 61(2):110-151 | DOI: 10.17221/83/2024-PPS

This article provides a review of recent studies on the extent to which the use of organic acid elicitors such as salicylic, jasmonic, humic and ascorbic acids has been successful in alleviating the exposure of Lamiaceae plants to unfavourable environmental conditions such as drought and salinity. Overall, the results concluded all organic acid elicitors enhanced the morphological and physiological characteristics of biochemical and secondary metabolite contents. These improvements have enabled plants of the Lamiaceae family to adapt to environmental stress conditions to some extent and survive, thus achieving sustainability in the production...

Population composition and virulence of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in KazakhstanOriginal Paper

Shynbolat Rsaliyev, Aralbek Rsaliyev, Rakhim Urazaliev, Saltanat Dubekova, Akerke Serikbaykyzy

Plant Protect. Sci., 2025, 61(2):152-161 | DOI: 10.17221/16/2024-PPS

In recent years, epidemics of wheat yellow rust caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) have been observed in major winter wheat-producing regions in Kazakhstan. However, there is currently very little information about the racial composition and virulence of Pst. The global emergence of aggressive and genetically diverse Pst races leads to different seasonal and geographic patterns of the pathogen, making cultivated wheat varieties vulnerable to the pathogen and potentially causing yellow rust epidemics. Three periods with different characteristic dominant Pst races were distinguished in Kazakhstan...

Comparative evaluation of fungicide effectiveness in controlling Coffee leaf rust in Hawai‘iOriginal Paper

Zhening Zhang, Julia A. Coughlin, James K.F. Kam, Zhiqiang Cheng

Plant Protect. Sci., 2025, 61(2):162-171 | DOI: 10.17221/92/2024-PPS

Coffee leaf rust (CLR), Hemileia vastatrix, is a disease that has severely impacted the major coffee growing areas of the world. The discovery of CLR in Hawaii in October 2020 was devastating news to local growers, as it quickly spread to all coffee-growing areas, threatening the second-highest-valued crop in the State. Although the fungicide Priaxor Xemium had been approved as a Section 18 emergency exemption, there was still an urgent need for true systemic fungicides to provide sustained control of the disease. The study's overall objective was to test the efficacy of various systemic fungicides against CLR in field conditions. During the...

Phytochemical profile of stem extract of Carthamus oxycantha and identification of herbicidal and antimicrobial constituentsOriginal Paper

Muhammad Rafiq, Amna Shoaib, Arshad Javaid, Shagufta Perveen, Hafiz Umair Asdullah, Chunsong Cheng

Plant Protect. Sci., 2025, 61(2):172-182 | DOI: 10.17221/75/2024-PPS

The present study was carried out to enlist herbicidal and antimicrobial compounds in the methanolic stem extract of Carthamus oxycantha, a problematic weed of Asteraceae. Methanolic stem extract was subjected to GC-MS analysis that revealed the presence of 150 constituents in the extract. The most abundant compound was Niacin (45.375%) followed by D-ribofuranose, 5-deoxy-5-(methylsulfinyl)-1,2,3-tris-O-(trimethylsilyl)- (14.528%); 9,12-octadecadienoic acid (Z,Z)-, methyl ester (4.951%); γ-tocopherol (4.638%); hexacosane (4.148%); 3-phenyllactic acid, 2TMS derivative (2.675%); 13-retinoic acid, (Z)-, TMS derivative (2.461%); 2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-4-ethyl-3-imidazoline-1-oxyl...

Brinjal shoot and fruit borer (Leucinodes orbonalis Guenee) seasonal activity and association with abiotic factorOriginal Paper

Prince Mahore, Nikki Bhardwaj, Pradyumn Singh, Mitesh Makwana, Dheerendra Mahor, Naveen, Neeraj Kumar, Sitaram Seervi, Sonu Sharma

Plant Protect. Sci., 2025, 61(2):183-190 | DOI: 10.17221/3/2024-PPS

The study has been conducted at Research Farm, College of Agriculture, Gwalior (M.P.), in the summers of 2021 and 2022. In the summers of 2021 and 2022, the crop was first infested by the shoot and fruit borer on the 10^th and 13^th standard meteorological week (SMW). The infestation persisted until the 23^rd and 24^th SMW, respectively. During the first year, the 15^th SMW had the highest infestation rate for shoot damage, 15.76%, while the 18^th SMW had the highest infestation rate for shoot damage, 15.07%, in the second year. Whereas fruit damage per cent is calculated based on number and...

Determination of resistance improving potentials of cotton whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Genn.) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) biotypes against cyantraniliproleOriginal Paper

Isse Hassan Ali, Utku Yükselbaba

Plant Protect. Sci., 2025, 61(2):191-200 | DOI: 10.17221/112/2023-PPS

Bemisia tabaci is a significant insect pest that causes extensive agricultural damage. The MEAM1 (Middle East-Asia Minor) and MED (Mediterranean) genetic groups of B. tabaci are the most prevalent cryptic species. This study investigated the potential for resistance development in the MED and MEAM1 genetic groups of B. tabaci against cyantraniliprole. Additionally, multiple-resistance development within each genetic group for pyriproxyfen, spirotetramat, and acetamiprid insecticides was determined. To assess the susceptibility of the first-larval stage of B. tabaci, we employed a systemic uptake method with cyantraniliprole. Additionally,...