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Homa Mohseni successfully defended her Master Thesis entitled “Investigating the effects of drought stress and mycorrhizal fungi on bean plant and green pea aphid”. (20 September 2022)

Paper published: A new species of Metopolophium Mordvilko, 1914 (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Aphidinae) on Rosa beggeriana from Iran (12 September 2022)

Paper published: A new species of the aphid genus Uroleucon Mordvilko, 1914 (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aphididae) on Launaea acanthodes from Iran (12 September 2022)

Research

Our researches fall into four categories:

1- Aphid Systematics and Taxonomy

A) Aphid fauna of Iran (including aphid parasitoids)

B) Aphid fauna of Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan (Looking for collaborators)

2- Aphid Ecology (mostly Community Ecology)

3- Host Plant Resistance to Aphids

4- Aphids Biological Control