소형 곤충으로 좁은 틈새에 있는 총채벌레는 종종 살충제 살포에 노출되기 어렵다. 이에 접촉페로몬을 처리하여 은둔행동을 막으려는 행동 교란 방제 전략을 세웠다. 꽃노랑총채벌레(Frankliniella occidentalis)에서 밝혀진 접촉페로몬은 7-methyltricosane (7TM)으로 본 연구에서는 먹이에 이 물질을 처리하여 행동 교란 유무를 생물검정하였다. 이 접촉페로몬은 유충에게 영향을 주지 않았지만 수컷 성충으로 하여금 처리된 먹 이로부터 회피하려는 행동을 유발하였다. 반면에 암컷 성충에게는 오히려 7TM이 처리된 지역으로 이동하는 행동을 유발하였다. 동일한 접촉페 로몬에 대해서 대만총채벌레(Frankliniella intonsa)에서도 유사한 행동 변화가 관찰되었다. 이러한 7TM에 기인한 총채벌레의 행동 변화를 살충 제 처리와 연결하여 고추를 가해하는 총채벌레류를 대상으로 방제효과를 검정하였다. 스피네토람 살충제 단독 처리에 비해 7TM과 혼합하여 처 리하면 총채벌레류 방제효율이 증가하였다. 흥미로운 점은 7TM 단독 처리로도 대만총채벌레 밀도에 일부 감소 효과를 보여 이 물질이 총채벌레 의 행동교란을 주는 것을 뒤받침하였다. 본 연구는 접촉페로몬 처리로 총채벌레의 살충제 회피 행동을 줄여 방제효과를 높인 새로운 해충방제기 술을 제시한다.

최근 안전한 먹거리에 대한 관심 제고와 고품질 대추 생산에 대한 관심 급증으로 친환경적인 해충방제법의 필요성이 높아지고 있다. 친환경적 해충방제를 위하여 비가림하우스 별 방충망을 설치하여 해충방제 효과와 과실 생육을 조사하였다. 시험에 사용된 방충방 규격은 각각 25, 18, 6mesh로 대추나무잎혹파리, 장님노린재, 복숭아심식나 방의 차단효과를 보았다. 대추나무잎혹파리의 경우 피해엽율이 1.2%, 10.8%, 14.3%, 무처리구는 15%였으며 장님노린 재의 경우 피해눈율이 6.9%, 5.8%, 20.41%, 28.2%였고, 심식나방은 피해과율이 0.0%, 1.0%, 0.0%, 32.0%로 나타났다. 방충망처리에 따른 대추생육은 처리구와 무처리구에서 차이가 거의 없었다. 대추재배농가의 방충망 도입이 해충 방제에 효과가 큰 것으로 판단되며 문제가 되고 있는 세가지 해충을 모두 방제하기 위해서는 25mesh로 처리하는 것이 가장 효과적인 것으로 판단된다.

이중나선형 RNA (dsRNA)를 이용한 유전자 발현 억제기술이 다양한 생명체에서 기능 유전체학을 연구하는 데 이용되고 있다. 이 기술의 원리는 전사후 단계에서 유전자 발현을 조절하는 RNA 간섭에 기인된다. dsRNA를 이용하여 특정 유전자의 발현 억제는 심각한 치사효과를 줄 수 있다. 이러한 분자기작을 해충 방제에 적용하여 특정 dsRNA를 이용한 새로운 살충제를 개발하고 있다. 본 종설은 dsRNA를 이용한 RNA 간섭 원리를 설명하고 이를 이용한 해충 방제를 구현한 여러 예를 살펴본다. 그리고 해충방제를 실현시키기 위해 현재 이 기술이 담고 있는 한계 를 고찰하고 이에 대한 대응 방안을 본 종설에서 제공하고자 한다.

Insect pests have been a serious problem over many years and remain a major threat for food production. Although chemical pesticides are major pest control strategies, use of microorganisms such as entomopathogenic bacteria, fungi, viruses and nematodes have continuously increase last few decades to minimize the use of agrichemicals. According to BBC research, the global biocontrol market was about $2.1 billion in 2011, and this is expected to rise $3 ~ 4 billion by 2017. Over 50 entomopathogens are commercially produced and used augmentatively as microbial pesticides. About 175 biopesticide active ingredients and 700 products have been registered worldwide. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium spp., nuclear polyhedrosis virus and Steinernema spp. are the most popular control agents used in plant protection. Among the microbial control agents Bt products have more than 50% of market share. In Korea, only 13 environmentally-friendly crop protectants were registered for insect pest control in 2015. Market share is very low and has grown slowly. We will discuss how we can expand the market with our techniques.

A fumigant, methyl bromide (MB), has been widely used to control insect pests on various post-harvest agricultural products. Due to its negative side effects, such as ozone deplete and phytotoxicity, MB should be replaced and alternative control technique ought to be developed. Furthermore, organic agricultural products need to be treated with non-chemical methods. To meet these needs, controlled atmosphere and temperature treatment technique (CATTS) has been developed to control insect and mite pests infesting various post-harvest fruits. CATTS uses heat treatment at 46℃with a gradual increase of temperature program under ananoxia condition (less than 1% O2 and 15% CO2). The heating rate at ramping step is crucial to prevent any heat damage to fruits by mimicking natural conditions during summer period experienced by fruits in orchards. The exposure period to the high temperature is minimized by anoxia condition, which prevents any recovery metabolism occurring in the target insect/mite pests after the heat treatment. To develop MB alternative technique for exporting apples, CATTS conditions have been determined against several quarantine insect/mite pest, which are restricted from Korean apple import countries. Target insect pests include Grapholita molesta, Adoxophyes paraorana, Tetranychus viennensis, Conogethes punctiferalis, and Carposina sasakii. In each insect species, differences in susceptibility to high temperature were analyzed in all developmental stages. The highest tolerant developmental stages were adults in T. viennensis, but the fifth instar larvae in G. molesta, C. punctiferalis, C. sasakii, and A. paraorana. Gas conditions of CATTS kept 1% O2 and 15% CO2. After the internal fruit temperature increase from 25℃ to 44℃ during ramping stage (120-150 min), CATTS treatment lasted for 1-2 h. Under 1 h CATTS treatment, 100% mortality was recorded in all assays using more than 3,000 individuals of each species of T. viennensis adults, G. molesta fifth instar, C. sasakii fifth instar, and A. paraorana fifth instar. With 2 h CATTS treatment, 100% mortality was recorded in C. punctiferalis assay using 3,022 fifth instar larvae. Under 1 h CATTS treatment, no fruit damage was recorded in Fuji variety of apples. Treatment cost of CATTS is higher than that of methyl bromide (MB) treatment. However, once CATTS is equipped with nitrogen generator, it would be cheaper than MB in treatment cost. CATTS is a promising post-harvest pest control technique to replace MB treatment. Especially, CATTS would be an ideal control technique to disinfect any pests against organic agricultural products.

Symbiotic bacteria are common in insects. Because symbiotic bacteria are known to intimately affect the various aspects of insect host biology, ideally insects can be controlled by manipulating their symbiont. However, the attempts to control insects through their symbiont have been very limited. The paucity of the insect pest control using their symbiont is most likely due to the poor understanding of the symbiotic interactions between host insect and symbiont, which is attributed to the difficulty in cultivation of insect symbionts. However, the recently established bean bug, Riptortus pedestris, symbiotic system provides good opportunities to study insect’s symbiont in molecular level through their cultivable symbionts. Bean bugs acquire genus Burkholderia cells from environment and harbor them as their gut symbionts in the specialized posterior midgut. The genome of the Burkholderia symbiont was sequenced, and the genomic information has been used to generate the genetically manipulated Burkholderia symbiont strains. After orally administering the mutant Burkholderia symbionts into bean bugs for symbiotic association, the bacterial colonization levels in the host gut and host phenotypes were analyzed. As a result, we have identified novel symbiotic factors necessary for establishing successful association with host. Our recent understandings on the bacterial symbiotic factors demonstrate a great possibility to control the bean bug pest using genetically modified Burkholderia symbiont.

A postharvest treatment called CATTS (controlled atmosphere and temperature treatment system) has been used as an alternative nonchemical measure for methyl bromide fumigant treatment. This study applied CATTS to control the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, infesting stored grains. Adults of T. castaneum were susceptible to 46℃ heat treatment. The susceptibility was further enhanced by addition of CA conditions (15% CO₂ and 1% O₂). When CATTS (46℃, 15% CO₂, 16℃/h treating rate) was applied to different developmental stages of T. castaneum, it showed 100% control efficacy by 120 min exposure. There was a variation in CATTS susceptibility among developmental stages, in which late instar larvae were most tolerant. Heat shock proteins of T. castaneum appeared to be implicated in the tolerance of CATTS.

Polydnavirus is a mutualistic DNA virus found in some braconid and ichneumonid wasps. Its genome is integrated into host chromosome as a provirus. Its replication occurs at ovarian calyx epithelium during host pupal stage to form episomal viral particles. The viral particles are delivered into hemocoel of the parasitized insect along with eggs during wasp oviposition. Several polydnaviral genomes, which are isolated from the episomal virus particles, have been sequenced and exhibit some gene families with speculative physiological functions. This review presents the viral characteristics in terms of its parasitic physiology. For developing new insect pest control tactics, it also discusses several application strategies exploiting the viral genome to manipulate insect physiology.

In recent years, not only the cultivation area of Jujube in Korea but also the number of pest species has increased. The farmers farming environmentally friendly are in great difficulty because there are no effective control devices. This study was conducted to investigate the control effect of the insect screen net on three pest species (Apolygus spinolae, Dasineura sp. and Carposina sasakii) in Jujube orchard when the pests were blocked by insect screen net. For the first and second surveys, the damage rates by A. spinolae were 9.06, 13.95% in 50 mesh, 4.75, 10.17% in 25 mesh, 5.68, 11.84% in 18mesh mesh of insect screen net and 21.6, 36.34% in untreated insect screen net, respectively. The damage rates by Dasineura sp. were 0.54, 0.13% in 50 mesh, 0.93, 2.84% in 25 mesh, 1.05, 13.45% in 18 mesh mesh of insect screen net and 11.1, 26.65% in untreated insect screen net. Carposina sasakii were completely blocked in all the treatments. Damages on Jujube were not observed by insect screen net. Therefore, insect screen net is effective on insect pest control for Jujube.

택사 2모작 재배시 몇가지 진딧물 살충제 처리가 살충효과와 택사의 생육 및 수량에 미치는 영향을 검토하고자 시험한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 진딧물 방제가는 약제 살포후 5일 조사에서는 무처리에 비하여 Methomyl-Lf, 24.1%(메소밀 액제 )·, Imidacloprid-Wp, 10%(이미다클로프리드 수화제)[코니도]·, Carbosulfan-Wp, 20%(카보설 수화제)[포수]·, Methomyl-Wp, 45%(메소밀 수화제)[란네이트] 처리에서 97.5%, 98.9%, 98.4%, 97.0%로 각각 높았으며 약제 살포후 10일 조사에서도 무처리에 비하여 Methomyl-Lf, 24.1%·Imidacloprid-Wp, 10%·Carbosulfan-Wp, 20%·Methomyl-Wp, 45% 처리에서 92.3%, 92.8%, 93.0%, 93.1%로 각각 높았다. 2. 10a당 건근수량 역시 무처리 232kg에 비하여 Methomyl-Wp, 45% 처리에서는 313kg으로 134%로 증수였으나 Methomyl-Lf, 24.1%·, Imidacloprid-Wp, 10%·, Carbosulfan-Wp, 20% 처리에서는 333kg, 341kg, 325kg으로 각각 143%, 146%, 140%의 높은 수량성으로 증수되는 경향이었다. 3. 약해 조사에서는 기준량에서는 약해증상이 전혀 없었고 배량에서는 약하게 증상이 보였다.