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Overview

Cesar Rodriguez-Saona is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant body of work in Insect Science. Additional subfields include Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main research topics involve Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Insect behavior and control techniques, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Insect and Pesticide Research, Plant and animal studies, Insect Pest Control Strategies, and Plant Parasitism and Resistance.

They have published extensively in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Arthropod management tests
  • Journal of Economic Entomology
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Frontiers in Agronomy
  • Entomologia Generalis

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cesar Rodriguez-Saona include:

  • Robert Holdcraft
  • Pablo Urbaneja-Bernat
  • Ashfaq A. Sial
  • Vera Kyryczenko-Roth
  • Paolo Salazar-Mendoza

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by them are:

  • Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae): A Decade of Research Towards a Sustainable Integrated Pest Management Program, 2021, Journal of Economic Entomology
  • Bottom-Up Forces in Agroecosystems and Their Potential Impact on Arthropod Pest Management, 2021, Annual Review of Entomology
  • Biological control of invasive stink bugs: review of global state and future prospects, 2020, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
  • Balancing Disturbance and Conservation in Agroecosystems to Improve Biological Control, 2020, Annual Review of Entomology
  • Plant guttation provides nutrient-rich food for insects, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • Biology, Ecology, and Management of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

    Kevin B. Rice;Chris J. Bergh;Erik J. Bergmann;Dave J. Biddinger

  • Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae): A Decade of Research Towards a Sustainable Integrated Pest Management Program

    Gabriella Tait;Serhan Mermer;Dara Stockton;Jana Lee

  • Exogenous methyl jasmonate induces volatile emissions in cotton plants.

    Cesar Rodriguez-Saona;Steven J. Crafts-Brandner;Paul W. ParÉ;Thomas J. Henneberry

  • Field responses of predaceous arthropods to methyl salicylate: A meta-analysis and case study in cranberries

    Cesar Rodriguez-Saona;Ian Kaplan;Joseph Braasch;Durairaj Chinnasamy

  • Multistate Comparison of Attractants for Monitoring Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in Blueberries and Caneberries.

    Hannah J. Burrack;Mark Asplen;Luz Bahder;Judith Collins

  • A meta-analysis of insect pest behavioral manipulation with plant volatiles

    Zsofia Szendrei;Cesar Rodriguez-Saona

  • Induced plant responses to multiple damagers: differential effects on an herbivore and its parasitoid.

    Cesar Rodriguez-Saona;Cesar Rodriguez-Saona;Jennifer A. Chalmers;Sherosha Raj;Jennifer S. Thaler;Jennifer S. Thaler

  • Behavioral and electrophysiological responses of the emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis , to induced volatiles of Manchurian ash, Fraxinus mandshurica

    Cesar Rodriguez-Saona;Cesar Rodriguez-Saona;Therese M. Poland;James R. Miller;Lukasz L. Stelinski

  • Mitigating the effects of insecticides on arthropod biological control at field and landscape scales

    Craig R. Roubos;Cesar Rodriguez-Saona;Rufus Isaacs

  • Herbivore-Induced Volatiles in the Perennial Shrub, Vaccinium corymbosum, and Their Role in Inter-branch Signaling

    Cesar R. Rodriguez-Saona;Luis E. Rodriguez-Saona;Christopher J. Frost

  • Volatile Emissions Triggered by Multiple Herbivore Damage: Beet Armyworm and Whitefly Feeding on Cotton Plants

    Cesar Rodriguez-Saona;Cesar Rodriguez-Saona;Steven J. Crafts-Brandner;Luis A. Cañas

  • Molecular, biochemical, and organismal analyses of tomato plants simultaneously attacked by herbivores from two feeding guilds

    Cesar R. Rodriguez-Saona;Richard O. Musser;Heiko Vogel;Sue M. Hum-Musser

  • Trap Designs for Monitoring Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

    Jana C. Lee;Peter W. Shearer;Luz D. Barrantes;Elizabeth H. Beers

  • Tracing the history of plant traits under domestication in cranberries: potential consequences on anti-herbivore defences

    Cesar Rodriguez-Saona;Nicholi Vorsa;Ajay P. Singh;Jennifer Johnson-Cicalese

  • Attraction of the Invasive Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) to Traps Baited with Semiochemical Stimuli Across the United States

    Tracy C. Leskey;Arthur Agnello;J. Christopher Bergh;Galen P. Dively

  • Subterranean, Herbivore-Induced Plant Volatile Increases Biological Control Activity of Multiple Beneficial Nematode Species in Distinct Habitats

    Jared G. Ali;Hans T. Alborn;Raquel Campos-Herrera;Raquel Campos-Herrera;Fatma Kaplan

  • Behavioral response of Lygus hesperus to conspecifics and headspace volatiles of alfalfa in a Y-tube olfactometer.

    J. L. Blackmer;C. Rodriguez-Saona;J. A. Byers;K. L. Shope

  • Behavioral and Antennal Responses of Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) to Volatiles From Fruit Extracts.

    John Abraham;John Abraham;Aijun Zhang;Sergio Angeli;Sitra Abubeker

  • Advances in the Chemical Ecology of the Spotted Wing Drosophila ( Drosophila suzukii ) and its Applications

    Kevin R. Cloonan;John Abraham;Sergio Angeli;Zainulabeuddin Syed

  • Relative Toxicity and Residual Activity of Insecticides Used in Blueberry Pest Management: Mortality of Natural Enemies

    Craig R. Roubos;Cesar Rodriguez-Saona;Robert Holdcraft;Keith S. Mason

Frequent Co-Authors

Rufus Isaacs
Rufus Isaacs Michigan State University
Lukasz L. Stelinski
Lukasz L. Stelinski University of Florida
John T. Trumble
John T. Trumble University of California, Riverside
James J. Polashock
James J. Polashock US Department of Agriculture
Hans T. Alborn
Hans T. Alborn United States Department of Agriculture
Jennifer S. Thaler
Jennifer S. Thaler Cornell University
Galen P. Dively
Galen P. Dively University of Maryland, College Park
Vaughn M. Walton
Vaughn M. Walton Oregon State University
Steven J. Crafts-Brandner
Steven J. Crafts-Brandner United States Department of Agriculture

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