Prof. i. R. Dr. Stefan Vidal
Research Interests
• Multitrophic interactions between crops, pathogens, herbivorous insects and their natural enemies• Ecology of endophytic fungi-plant-insect relationships
• Risk assessment of transgenic crop plants on non-target organisms
• Integrated control of pests in winter wheat and winter oilseed rape
• Long term monitoring of the population dynamics of cereal aphids
• Influence of diversified cropping systems on the population dynamics of pest species
Current Research Projects
Evaluierung der Umwelteinflüsse auf die Wirkung von ATTRACAP®, einem biologischen Bodeninsektizid zur Drahtwurmbekämpfung, und anschließende Stabilisierung des WirkungsgradesPublications
Posada-Vergara C, Vidal S, Rostás M (2023): Local Competition and Enhanced Defense: How Metarhizium brunneum Inhibits Verticillium longisporum in Oilseed Rape Plants. J. Fungi 9(8), 796 doi: 10.3390/jof9080796Vidal S, Müller J, Schmidt S (2022): Critical checklist of the Chalcidoidea and Mymarommatoidea (Insecta, Hymenoptera) of Germany. Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e85582. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e85582
Posada-Vergara C, Lohaus K, Alhussein M, Vidal S, Rostás M (2022): Root Colonization by Fungal Entomopathogen Systemically Primes Belowground Plant Defense against Cabbage Root Fly. Journal of Fungi 8(9):969 doi:10.3390/jof8090969
Gvozdenac S, Milovac Z, Vidal S, Lozanov Crvenković Z, Štajner Papuga I, Franeta F, Ovuka J, Cvejić S (2022): Comparison of Chemical and Biological Wireworm Control Options in Serbian Sunflower Fields and a Proposition for a Refined Wireworm Damage Assessment. MDPI Agronomy (in press)
Piesik D, Lemańczyk G, Bocianowski J, Buszewski B, Vidal S, Mayhew CA (2022): Induction of volatile organic compounds in Triticum aestivum (wheat) plants following infection by different Rhizoctonia pathogens is species specific. Phytochemistry (in press)
Veres A, Wyckhuys KAG, Kiss J, Tóth F, Burgio G, Pons X, Avilla C, Vidal S, Razinger J, Bazok R, Matyjaszczyk E, Milosavljević I, Le XV, Zhou W, Zhu Z-R, Tarno H, Hadi B, Lundgren J, Bonmatin J-M, Bijleveld van Lexmond M, Aebi A, Rauf A and Furlan L (2020): An update of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment (WIA) on systemic pesticides. Part 4: alternatives in major cropping systems. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 27: pp. 29867-29899.
doi:10.1007/s11356-020-09279-x
Laurenz S, Hermann K, Humbert P, Patel A and Vidal S (2019): Optimierung einer Attract-&-Kill-Strategie gegen Drahtwürmer. Kartoffelbau 3/2019: pp. 18-19.
Askoul K, Richter E, Vidal S and Lusebrink I (2019): Life history parameters of Aleyrodes proletella (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) on different host plants. Journal of Economic Entomology 112(1): pp. 457-464.
doi:10.1093/jee/toy335
Wemheuer F, Wemheuer B, Daniel R and Vidal S (2019): Deciphering bacterial and fungal endophyte communities in leaves of two maple trees with green islands. Scientific Reports 9: 14183.
doi:10.1038/s41598-019-50540-2
Ambele CF, Bisseleua HDB, Akutse KS, Olubukola BO, Humbert P, Patel A, Vidal S and Ekesi S (2019): Testing a co-formulation of CO2 releasing material with an entomopathogenic fungus for the management of subterranean termite pests. Mycological Progress 18: 1201-1211.
doi:10.1007/s11557-019-01517-y
Gange AC, Koricheva J, Currie AF, Jaber LR and Vidal S (2019): Meta-analysis of the role of entomopathogenic and unspecialised fungal endophytes as plant bodyguards. New Phytologist 223(4): 2002-2010.
doi:10.1111/nph.15859
Humbert P, Vemmer M, Mävers F, Schumann M, Vidal S and Patel A V (2018): Development of an attract-and-kill co-formulation containing Saccharomyces cerevisiae and neem extract attractive towards wireworms. Pest Management Science 74(7): pp. 1575-1585.
doi:10.1002/ps.4842
Poehlein A, Hollensteiner J, Granzow S, Wemheuer B, Vidal S and Wemheuer F (2018): First insights into the draft genome sequence of the endophyte Paenibacillus amylolyticus strain GM1FR, isolated from Festuca rubra L. Genome Announcements 6(4):e01516-17.
doi:10.1128%2FgenomeA.01516-17
Hollensteiner J, Poehlein A, Granzow S, Liesegang L, Liesegang H, Daniel R, Vidal S and Wemheuer F (2018): Draft genome sequence of the endophyte Bacillus mycoides strain GM5LP isolated from Lolium perenne. Genome Announcements 6(4):e01517-17.
doi:10.1128%2FgenomeA.01517-17
Krell V, Jakobs-Schoenwandt D, Vidal S and Patel AV (2018): Encapsulation of Metarhizium brunneum enhances endophytism in tomato plants. Biological Control 116: pp. 62-73.
doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2017.05.004
All Publications by Prof. i. R. Dr. Stefan Vidal
Curriculum Vitae
| since 2004 | Co-Editor in chief of “Journal of Applied Entomology”, Blackwell-Publisher |
| since 2000 | Member of the German Commission for Biological Security of genetically engineered organisms (“ZKBS”) |
| 1999 - 2004 | Director of the Institute for Plant Pathology and Plant Protection; GAU |
| 2000 - 2003 | Coordinator of the EU-Project “Threat to European maize production by the invasive quarantine pest, Western Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera): a new sustainable crop management approach” |
| 1999 - 2018 | C3-Professor at the Georg-August-University (GAU) Goettingen, chair for agricultural entomology |
| 1997 | C3-Professor at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Chair for applied ecology and stored product research |
| 1996 | Habilitation at the Department of Horticulture, University of Hanover |
| 1992 - 1996 | Assistant professor at the Institute for Plant Diseases and Plant Protection, University of Hanover; research topics: Impact of endophytic fungi on their host plants and herbivorous insects; intercropping management in field vegetables, pathogen-herbivorous insect-parasitoid-interactions |
| 1987 - 1992 | Scientific employee at the Department of Biology, University of Hamburg |
| 1988 | Ph.D. at the same institution (Population dynamics of the leafmining weevil Rhynchaenus populi [Fabricius, 1792] [Coleoptera, Curculionidae]: Impact of hostplant, intraspecific competition, parasitoids and predators) |
| 1982 | degree dissertation on host- parasitoid-complexes of leafminers on willows |
| 1975 | study of biology at the Phillips‑University Marburg |
| 1.6.1950 | born in Hamburg, Germany; |