Advances in understanding insect pests affecting wheat and other cereals

Part 1 Foliar feeding pests
- 1. Cereal leaf beetle (Oulema melanopus): Edward W. Evans, Utah State University, USA;
- 2. Grasshoppers and other orthopteran pests: Robert B. Srygley, Pest Management Research Unit, Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, USA;

Part 2 Gall midges and stem feeding pests
- 3. The Hessian fly: a destructive pest of wheat and barley: Ming-Shun Chen, Hard Winter Wheat Genetics Research Unit, Center for Grain and Animal Health Research - USDA-ARS, USA; Nida Ghori, Kansas State University, USA; and Guihua Bai and Xuming Liu, Hard Winter Wheat Genetics Research Unit, Center for Grain and Animal Health Research - USDA-ARS, USA;
- 4. Wheat midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana): management in the Northern Great Plains of the United States and Canada: Govinda Shrestha, Oregon State University, USA; and Gadi V. P. Reddy, Southern Insect Management Research Unit, USA;
- 5. Wheat stem sawfly (Cephus cinctus Norton): David Weaver, Montana State University, USA;

Part 3 Phloem feeding pests, mites and root feeding pests
- 6. Russian wheat aphid (Diuraphis noxia): an overview: Vicki L. Tolmay, Agricultural Research Council - Small Grain Institute, South Africa;
- 7. Greenbug (Schizaphis graminum): an overview: Tom A. Royer, Oklahoma State University, USA;
- 8. Greenbug-wheat interactions, pest management and host resistance: L. A. Crespo-Herrera, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico; J. Huerta-Espino, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Mexico; and R. P. Singh, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico;
- 9. Fescue aphid (Metopolophium festucae): Sanford D. Eigenbrode and Subodh Adhikari, University of Idaho, USA; and Arash Rashed, Virginia Tech, USA;
- 10. The English grain aphid Sitobion avenae: Deguang Liu, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, China;
- 11. Wheat curl mite ecology and epidemiology of its associated wheat viruses: Gary L. Hein, Anthony J. McMechan and Lindsay Overmyer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA;
- 12. Advances in managing wireworms in cereal crops: challenges and future directions: Arash Rashed, Virginia Tech, USA; and Erik J. Wenninger, University of Idaho, USA;

Part 4 Emerging issues
- 13. Recent invasions of insect pests of wheat and sorghum: Michael J. Brewer and Blake H. Elkins, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University, USA;
- 14. Biotechnology for wheat crop protection: potential and challenges: Anna-Maria Botha, Stellenbosch University, South Africa;
- 15. Online decision support systems, remote sensing and artificial intelligence applications for wheat pest management: Daniel J. Leybourne, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany and RSK ADAS Ltd, UK; Mark Ramsden and Sacha White, RSK ADAS Ltd, UK; Rujing Wang, He Huang and Chengjun Xe, Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; and Po Yang, University of Sheffield, UK;