Professor Helmut van Emden
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Emeritus Professor of Horticulture
Specialism
Applied Entomology, Pest Management
Areas of interest
Insect-plant relationships from the community level in agroecosystems (ecosystem services of biodiversity) to the genetic and mechanistic level in terms of host plant resistance and to the individual insect level exemplified by the nutritional physiology of aphids and the olfactory responses of parasitoids of aphids to host plant cues.Teaching
Available if required:
- Insect and mite pests of crops
- Insect Pest Management
- Pesticides and their supplication
- Design and analysis of experiments
Research centres and groups
Sustainable Land Management, Centre for Agri-Environmental ResearchResearch projects
- Fully-defined artificial diet for aphids
- Effect of UV-blocking polytunnel claddings on the residual life of insecticides
- Factors affecting the inter-individual spacing of aphids
Background
Born 30.12.1933 in Dresden Germany, before the family moved to London in 1936. Educated at Tiffin Boys’ School, Kingston-on-Thames and Imperial College (Department of Zoology and Pure and Applied Entomology.
Career:
- 1999 – Emeritus Professor of Horticulture.
- 1992-1999 Translated to Chair of Horticulture
- 1991-1996 Head of the School of Plant Sciences
- 1986-1999 Head of Department of Horticulture,
- 1982 Visiting Scholar at Queensland Agricultural College, Australia
- 1980 Visiting Professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of Queensland, Australia.
- 1976-1992 Promoted to a Personal Professorship
- 1973 (Feb-June) Visiting Associate Professor in the Division of Biological Control, Department of Entomology and Parasitology, University of California, Berkeley
- 1972 -1976 Promoted to Reader
- October 1961-1972 Appointed Lecturer in the Department of Horticulture, The University of Reading
- January-October 1961 Temporary Lecturer in the Department of Pure and Applied Zoology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
- 1958-1960 Agricultural Research Council Research Assistantto Dr T.R.E. Southwood, Department of Pure and Applied Zoology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
- 1955-1958 PhD studies inDepartment of Pure and Applied Zoology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
- 1952-1958 BSc in Zoology and Applied Entomology,Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
Academic qualifications
BSc (1st) (London), PhD (London), ARCS, DIC (Imperial College, London), Hon. FRES.Awards and honours
Awarded the Forbes (1953) and Huxley (1973) medals and prizes of Imperial College, London and in 1993 the Karl Escherisch medal of the German Society of General and Applied Entomology. BCPC Medal in 2005 for services to Crop Production. . Appointed a Rothamsted Fellow (1998-2016).Professional bodies/affiliations
President (1981-1983) and Honorary Treasurer (1989-1999) of the Royal Entomological Society; elected an Honorary Fellow in 1999. President (2000 and 2001) of the Association of Applied Biologists, elected an Honorary member in 2002. Elected to the Entomological Club in 1972,Verrall member (1972–2012), Honorary Treasurer (2004-2018), elected an Honorary Member in 2019. Fellow of the Linnean Society.Websites/blogs
http://www.hvanemden.x10host.com/Selected publications
van Emden. H.F. 2022. Conservation biological control of insect pests. CABI Reviews, 17, no. 24, 1-10.van Emden, H. F. and Wild, E.A. 2020. A fully defined artificial diet for Myzus persicae - the detailed technical manual. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 68, 582-586.
van Emden, H. F. 2019. Statistics for Terrified Biologists. 2nd edition, Blackwell, Oxford, 402 pp.
van Emden, H. F. and Harrington R. (eds), 2017. Aphids as Crop Pests, 2nd edn. CABI, Wallingford, 686 pp.
van Emden, H. F. 2014. Pros and cons of GM crops as a source of resistance to insect pests. World Agriculture, 4(2), 53-59.
van Emden, H. F. 2013. Handbook of Agricultural Entomology. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, 312 pp
van Emden, H.F. (ed.) 1972. Aphid Technology. Academic Press, London, 318 pp.
van Emden, H. F., 1965. The role of uncultivated land in the biology of crop pests and beneficial insects. Scientific Horticulture, 17, 121-136.
Publications
- Van Emden, H. (2022) Conservation biological control of insect pests. CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources , 17 (24). pp. 1-11. ISSN: 1749-8848 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1079/cabireviews202217024
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Paliwal, D.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6891-0778
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Hamilton, A.
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Barrett, G.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1509-0179
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Alberti, F.
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Van Emden, H.
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Monteil, C.
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Machuline, T.
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Nauen, R.
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Wagstaff, C.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9400-8641
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Bass, C.
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Jackson, R.
(2021)
Identification of novel aphid-killing bacteria to protect plants.
Microbial Biotechnology
ISSN:
1751-7915
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13902
- Abagale, S. , Braimah, H. , Osafo-Acquaah, S. , Powers, S. , van Emden, H. , Birkett, M. , Pickett, J. , Sanda, U. , Vuts, J. (2021) Field validation of senesced banana leaf extracts for trapping banana weevils on smallholder banana/plantain farms. Journal of Applied Entomology , 145 (1-2). pp. 26-35. ISSN: 0931-2048 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jen.12838
- van Emden, H. and Wild, E. (2020) A fully defined artificial diet for Myzus persicae – the detailed technical manual. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata , 168 (6-7). pp. 582-586. ISSN: 0013-8703 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eea.12917
- van Emden, H. (2020) Instructions for the use of probability paper in analysing the frequency distribution of samples in biological projects. Field Studies , 16 (2).
- van Emden, H. (2019) Statistics for terrified biologists. 2nd edition. Wiley ISBN: 9781119563679
- van Emden, H. , Vamvatsikos, P. , Hardie, J. (2019) Cultivar-specific plant odour preferences of a generalist aphid parasitoid Aphidius colemani and a possible mechanism for maternal priming of resistance to toxic plant chemistry. Physiological Entomology , 44 (1). pp. 1-10. ISSN: 0307-6962 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phen.12270
- Abagale, S. , Woodcock, C. , Chamberlain, K. , Osafo-Acquaah, S. , van Emden, H. , Birkett, M. , Pickett, J. , Braimah, H. (2019) Attractiveness of host banana leaf materials to the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus in Ghana for development of field management strategies. Pest Management Science , 75 (2). pp. 549-555. ISSN: 1526-4998 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ps.5182
- Abagalwe, S. , Woodcock, C. , Hooper, A. , Caulfield, J. , Withall, D. , Chamberlain, K. , Acquaah, S. , van Emden, H. , Braimah, H. , Pickett, J. , Birkett, M. (2018) (2R,5S)-theaspirane identified as the kairomone for the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus, from attractive senesced leaves of the host banana, Musa spp.. Chemistry - A European Journal , 24 (37). pp. 9217-9219. ISSN: 1521-3765 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201800315
- Van Emden, H. , Barclay, M. , Garner, B. (2017) Recollections on the life and work of a great immature-beetle pioneer, Fritz Isidore van Emden (1898-1958). Acta Entmologica Musei Pragae , 57 (2). pp. 839-842. ISSN: 0374-1036
- Van Emden, H. (2017) Integrated pest management of aphids and introduction to IPM case studies. In: Van Emden, H. and Harrington, R. , (eds.) Aphids as Crop Pests, 2nd edition. CABI , Wallingford. pp. 533-544. ISBN: 9781780647098
- Van Emden, H. (2017) Host-plant resistance. In: Van Emden, H. and Harrington, R. , (eds.) Aphids as Crop Pests, 2nd edition. CABI , Wallingford. pp. 515-532. ISBN: 9781780647098
- Leigh, S. and Van Emden, H. (2017) Population dynamics: cycles and patterns. In: Van Emden, H. and Harrington, R. , (eds.) Aphids as Crop Pests, 2nd edition. CABI , Wallingford. pp. 262-279. ISBN: 9781780647098
- Van Emden, H. and Douglas, A. (2017) Nutrition and symbiosis. In: Van Emden, H. and Harrington, R. , (eds.) Aphids as Crop Pests, 2nd edition. CABI , Wallingford. pp. 114-131. ISBN: 9781780647098
- van Emden, H. and Harrington, R. , eds. (2017) Aphids as crop pests. 2nd edition. . CABI Publishing , Wallingford. pp 714. ISBN: 9781780647098
- van Emden, H. (2015) A brief history of the European congresses of entomology. pp. 8-9.
- van Emden, H. (2015) Tales of the unexpected: research discoveries that occurred by accident. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae , 79 pp. 51-64. ISSN: 1211-376X
- van Emden, H. , Douloumpaka, S. , Vamvatsikos, P. , Hardie, J. (2015) Does the aphid parasitoid Aphidius colemani 'immunise'its progeny against the toxic plant allelochemicals that they are likely to encounter in their aphid host?. pp. 51-52. (Antenna ECE special edition)
- Hariprasad, K. and Van Emden, H. (2014) Effect of partial plant resistance in brassicas on tolerance of diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) larvae to cypermethrin. International Journal of Pest Management , 60 (2). pp. 91-99. ISSN: 0967-0874 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670874.2014.918673
- Clason, P. , Michaud, J. , Van Emden, H. (2014) Antibiosis in wheat interacts with crowding stress to affect Metopolophiumdirhodum development and susceptibility to malathion. Entomologia Experimentalis Et Applicata , 153 (2). pp. 106-113. ISSN: 0013-8703 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eea.12235
- van Emden, H. , Dingley, J. , Dewhirst, S. , Pickett, J. , Woodcock, C. , Wadhams, L. (2014) The effect of artificial diet on the production of alarm pheromone by Myzus persicae. Physiological Entomology , 39 (4). pp. 285-291. ISSN: 0307-6962 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phen.12074
- van Emden, H. , Foster, S. , Field, L. (2014) Poor survival on an artificial diet of two genotypes of the aphid Myzus persicae: a fitness cost of insecticide resistance?. Agricultural and Forest Entomology , 16 (4). pp. 335-340. ISSN: 1461-9563 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/afe.12063
- Van Emden, H. (2014) Pros and cons of GM crops as a source of resistance to insect pests. World Agriculture , 4 (2). pp. 53-59. ISSN: 2043-7234
- van Emden, H. (2013) Handbook of agricultural entomology. Wiley-Blackwell , Chichester. pp 334. ISBN: 9780470659137
- Pope, T. , Girling, R. , Staley, J. , Trigodet, B. , Wright, D. , Leather, S. , Van Emden, H. , Poppy, G. (2012) Effects of organic and conventional fertiliser treatments on host selection by the aphid parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae. Journal of Applied Entomology , 136 (6). pp. 445-455. ISSN: 0931-2048 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0418.2011.01667.x
- van Emden, H. and Hodek, I. (2012) Recent progess and possible future trends in the study of Coccinellidae. Ecology and Behaviour of the Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae). Wiley-Blackwell , Chichester. pp. 520-525. ISBN: 9781405184229
- Hodek, I. , Van Emden, H. , Honek, A. , eds. (2012) Ecology and behaviour of the ladybird beetles (Coccinellidae). Wiley-Blackwell , Chichester. pp 600. ISBN: 9781405184229
- van Emden, H. and Hadley, P. (2011) Plastic films for polytunnels can prolong the effective residual life of cypermethrin to over 6 months. Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology , 86 (2). pp. 196-200. ISSN: 1462-0316 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14620316.2011.11512747
- Staley, J. , Stewart-Jones, A. , Pope, T. , Wright, D. , Leather, S. , Hadley, P. , Rossiter, J. , van Emden, H. , Poppy, G. (2010) Varying responses of insect herbivores to altered plant chemistry under organic and conventional treatments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences , 277 (1682). pp. 779-786. ISSN: 1471-2954 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.1631
- Hariprasad, K. and van Emden, H. (2010) Mechanisms of partial plant resistance to diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) in brassicas. International Journal of Pest Management , 56 (1). pp. 15-22. ISSN: 0967-0874 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670870902980834
- Braimah, H. and van Emden, H. (2010) Prospects and challenges for sustainable management of the mango stone weevil, Sternochetus mangiferae (F.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in West Africa: a review. International Journal of Pest Management , 56 (2). pp. 91-101. ISSN: 0967-0874 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670870903174312
- van Emden, H. , Kilbane, . , Pettersson, . (2009) Changing the host selection responses of aphids through a short experience of a novel secondary plant compound. Redia , 92 pp. 183-186. ISSN: 0370-4327
- van Emden, H. (2009) Artificial diet for aphids - thirty years' experience. Redia , 92 pp. 163-167. ISSN: 0370-4327
- Tellez, . , Tapia, . , Gamez, . , Cabello, . , van Emden, H. (2009) Predation of Bradysia sp (Diptera: Sciaridae), Liriomyza trifolii (Diptera: Agromyzidae) and Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) by Coenosia attenuata (Diptera: Muscidae) in greenhouse crops. European Journal of Entomology , 106 (2). pp. 199-204. ISSN: 1210-5759
- van Emden, H. , Storeck, . , Douloumpaka, . , Eleftherianos, . , Poppy, . , Powell, . (2008) Plant chemistry and aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera : Braconidae): Imprinting and memory. European Journal of Entomology , 105 (3). pp. 477-483. ISSN: 1210-5759
- van Emden, H. (2008) Statistics for terrified biologists. Blackwell , Oxford. pp 343. ISBN: 9781405149563
- van Emden, H. (2007) Integrated pest management of aphids and introduction to IPM case studies. In: van Emden, H. and Harrington, . , (eds.) Aphids as Crop Pests. CABI , Wallingford. pp. 537-548. ISBN: 9780851998190
- Foyer, . , Noctor, . , van Emden, H. (2007) An evaluation of the costs of making specific secondary metabolites: does the yield penalty incurred by host plant resistance to insects due to competition for resources?. International Journal of Pest Management , 53 (3). pp. 175-182. ISSN: 0967-0874 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670870701469146
- van Emden, H. (2007) GM pest-resistant crops - opportunities for mis-management of biological control. pp. 514-515.
- van Emden, H. (2007) Host plant resistance. In: van Emden, H. and Harrington, . , (eds.) Aphids as Crop Pests. CABI , Wallingford. pp. 447-468. ISBN: 9780851998190
- Douglas, . and van Emden, H. (2007) Nutrition and symbiosis. In: van Emden, H. and Harrington, . , (eds.) Aphids as Crop Pests. CABI , Wallingford. pp. 115-134. ISBN: 9780851998190
- van Emden, H. and Gurdon, J. (2006) Dame Miriam Louise Rothschild CBE. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society , 52 pp. 315-330. | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2006.0022
- van Emden, H. (2006) Pest control. In: Taylor, . , (eds.) The Oxford Companion to the Garden. Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 373-375. ISBN: 10: 0198662556
- Ntonifor, . , Mueller-Harvey, . , van Emden, H. , Brown, . (2006) Antifeedant activities of crude seed extracts of tropical African spices against Spodoptera littoralis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Journal of Tropical Insect Science , 26 pp. 78-85. ISSN: 1742-7584 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1079/IJT2006104
- Couty, . , van Emden, H. , Perry, . , Hardie, . , Pickett, . , Wadhams, . (2006) The roles of olfaction and vision in host-plant finding by the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella. Physiological Entomology , 31 (2). pp. 134-145. ISSN: 0307-6962 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3032.2006.00499.x
- Haruna, . and van Emden, H. (2005) Olfactory attractiveness of mixtures of some host plant and conspecific semiochemicals to the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar, 1824). Ghana Journal of Agricultural Science , 38 pp. 13-18. ISSN: 0855-0042
- Braimah, H. and van Emden, H. (2004) Attractiveness of some host plant and conspecific male semiochemicals to the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus. Ghana Journal of Agricultural Science , 37 pp. 75-84. ISSN: 0855-0042
- van Emden, H. (2004) In search of agricultural sustainability. In: Langton, A. , Millman, C. , Thompson, A. , (eds.) Association of Applied Biologicts 1904-2004: a Celebration of Achievment. Association of Applied Biologists , Wellesbourne, Warwicks.. pp. 52-53. ISBN: 954923006
- van Emden, H. and Service, . (2004) Pest and vector control. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp 349. ISBN: 9780521010832
- van Emden, H. and Rothschild, . (2004) Insect and bird interactions. Intercept Limited , Andover, UK. pp 320. ISBN: 1898298920
- Ehsan-ul-Haq, N. and van Emden, H. (2003) Effects of intercropping wheat and peas on the growth and development of Metopolophium dirhodum and Aphidius rhopalosiphi (a glasshouse simulation). Pakistan Journal of Zoology , 35 pp. 271-275. ISSN: 0030-9923
- Ehsan-ul-Haq, N. and van Emden, H. (2003) Effects of host population density on the growth and development of Metopolophium dirhodum and Aphidius rhopalosiphi. Pakistan Journal of Zoology , 35 pp. 35-37. ISSN: 0030-9923
- Ehsan-ul-Haq, N. and van Emden, H. (2003) Some effects of different soil moisture on the development of Metopolophium dirhodum using a susceptible and partially resistant cultivar of wheat. Pakistan Journal of Zoology , 35 pp. 21-24. ISSN: 0030-9923
- van Emden, H. (2003) GM crops: a potential for pest mismanagement. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B , 53 (Supplement). pp. 26-33. ISSN: 0906-4710 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16519140310015139
- van Emden, H. (2003) Conservation biological control: from theory to practice. In: VanDriesche, . , (eds.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods, Honolulu, Hawaii, 14-18 January 2002. USDA Forest Service , Morgantown, WV. pp. 199-208.
- van Emden, H. (2003) Twenty-six years without plant food - an aphid still going strong!. Antenna , 27 pp. 95-98.
- Saljoqi, . , van Emden, H. , Yu-rong, . (2003) Antixenosis to the peach/potato aphid, myzus persicae (SuIzer) in potato cultivars. Asian Journal of Plant Sciences , 2 (12). pp. 932-935. ISSN: 1682-3974 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3923/ajps.2003.932.935
- Saljoqi, . and van Emden, H. (2003) Effects of two potential pest management components, intercropping and yellow sticky plastic sheet traps in two differentially resistant potato cultivars for the management of myzus persicae (Sulzer). Asian Journal of Plant Sciences , 2 (12). pp. 925-931. ISSN: 1682-3974 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3923/ajps.2003.925.931
- Saljoqi, . and van Emden, H. (2003) Selective toxicity of different granular insecticides to the peach-potato aphid, Myzus persicae (Homoptera: Aphididae) and its parasitoid, Aphidius matricariae (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae) in two differentially resistant potato cultivars. Journal of Biological Science , 3 pp. 215-227. ISSN: 1727-3048 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3923/jbs.2003.215.227
- Saljoqi, . and van Emden, H. (2003) Differential susceptibilities of peach-potato aphid, Myzus persicae (Homoptera: Aphididae) and its parasitoid, Aphidius matricariae (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae) to foliar insecticides on partially resistant and susceptible potato cultivars. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences , 6 (4). pp. 386-393. ISSN: 1028-8880 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3923/pjbs.2003.386.393
- Douloumpaka, . and van Emden, H. (2003) A maternal influence on the conditioning to plant cues of Aphidius colemani Viereck, parasitizing the aphid Myzus persicae Sulzer. Physiological Entomology , 28 (2). pp. 108-113. ISSN: 0307-6962