Reply to: Comment on 'Soybean Aphid Population Dynamics, Soybean Yield Loss, and Development of Stage-Specific Economic Injury Levels' by M. A. Catangui, E. A. Beckendorf, and W. E. Riedell, Agron.J. 101:1080-1092(2009)

摘要

Thank you for the opportunity to respond to a Letter to the Editor concerning the paper entitled "Soybean Aphid Population Dynamics, Soybean Yield Loss, and Development of Stage-Specific Economic Injury Levels" published in the September-October 2009issue Agronomy Journal. First, we would like to quote a paragraph from our own paper (Catangui et al., 2009):Future field research is needed to confirm the applicability of the above recommendations for the diverse soybean growing conditions of the United States and the various interactions among soybean cultivars, soybean market value, soybean aphid control cost and efficacy, soil fertility and moisture, yield potential of the field, and other variables unforeseen by the authors of this current study. Thus, we were aware from the beginning that our paper was just but one contribution to the understanding of the soybean aphid as a pest of soybean. We welcome criticisms, positive comments, collaborations, and future refinements to the models and recommendations advanced to the scientific community by our paper. The Letter to the Editor authors should have no reason to find our paper "disconcerting" because we did not include certain publications; we would have, if the main topic of our paper was about soybean aphid natural enemies. Although the concepts advanced in our paper may be useful for studying soybean aphid natural enemies, the title of our paper clearly states that soybean aphid natural enemies was not the subject matter.