Dr Daniel Leybourne

Research Fellow


Curriculum vitae



Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour. Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences

The University of Liverpool



Publications


Peer reviewed publications


Thresholds and prediction models to support the sustainable management of herbivorous insects in wheat. A review.


Leybourne DJ, Storer KE, Marshall A, Musa N, Telling S, Abel L, White S, Ellis S, Yang P, Berry PM

Agronomy for Sustainable Development, vol. 44, 2024, p. 29


Genetic diversity in vector populations influences the transmission efficiency of an important plant virus


Daniel J. Leybourne, Mark A. Whitehead, Torsten Will

Biology Letters, vol. 20, 2024, p. 20240095


Sharing the burden: Cabbage stem flea beetle pest pressure and crop damage are lower in rapeseed fields surrounded by other rapeseed crops


D.J. Leybourne, A.M.C. Pahl, P. Melloh, E.A. Martin

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, vol. 366, 2024, p. 108965


Low prevalence of secondary endosymbionts in aphids sampled from rapeseed crops in Germany


A. N. Manentzos, A. M. C. Pahl, P. Melloh, E. A. Martin, D. J. Leybourne

Bulletin of Entomological Research, 2024, pp. 1–6


An effective farmer-centred mobile intelligence solution using lightweight deep learning for integrated wheat pest management


Shunbao Li, Zhipeng Yuan, Ruoling Peng, Daniel Leybourne, Qing Xue, Yang Li, Po Yang

Journal of Industrial Information Integration, In Press, 2024


Common facultative endosymbionts do not influence sensitivity of cereal aphids to pyrethroids


Daniel J Leybourne, Petra Melloh, Emily A Martin

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, vol. 25(2), 2023, pp. 344-354


Grand challenges in entomology: Priorities for action in the coming decades


Sarah H. Luke, et al.

Insect Conservation and Diversity, vol. 16, 2023, pp. 173-189


To tolerate drought or resist aphids? A new challenge to plant science is on the horizon


CC Ramirez, PE Gundel, AJ Karley, DJ Leybourne

Journal of Experimental Botany, 2023


Development of a pest threshold decision support system for minimising damage to winter wheat from wheat bulb fly, Delia coarctata


Daniel J. Leybourne, Kate E. Storer, Pete Berry, Steve Ellis

Annals of Applied Biology, vol. 180, 2022, pp. 118-131


Drought stress increases the expression of barley defence genes with negative consequences for infesting cereal aphids


Daniel J Leybourne, Tracy A Valentine, Kirsty Binnie, Anna Taylor, Alison J Karley, Jorunn I B Bos

Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 73, 2022 Jan, pp. 2238-2250


Plant resistance in different cell layers affects aphid probing and feeding behaviour during non-host and poor-host interactions


C Escudero-Martinez, D Leybourne, J Bos

Bulletin of Entomological Research, vol. 111, 2021, pp. 31-38


Drought has negative consequences on aphid fitness and plant vigor: Insights from a meta-analysis


Daniel J. Leybourne, Katharine F. Preedy, Tracy A. Valentine, Jorunn I. B. Bos, Alison J. Karley

Ecology and Evolution, vol. 11, 2021, pp. 11915-11929


The price of protection: a defensive endosymbiont impairs nymph growth in the bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi


Daniel J. Leybourne, Jorunn I. B. Bos, Tracy A. Valentine, Alison J. Karley

Insect Science, vol. 27, 2020, pp. 69-85


A fitness cost resulting from Hamiltonella defensa infection is associated with altered probing and feeding behaviour in Rhopalosiphum padi


Daniel J. Leybourne, Tracy A. Valentine, Jorunn I. B. Bos, Alison J. Karley

Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 223, The Company of Biologists Ltd, 2020


Integrated Pest Management of Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle in Oilseed Rape


Pickering F., White S., Ellis S., Collins L., Corkley I., Leybourne D., Kendall S., Newbert M., R. Phillips

Outlooks on Pest Management, vol. 31(6), 2020, pp. 284-290


Learning-induced switching costs in a parasitoid can maintain diversity of host aphid phenotypes although biocontrol is destabilized under abiotic stress


Katharine F. Preedy, Mark A. J. Chaplain, Daniel J. Leybourne, Glenn Marion, Alison J. Karley

Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 89, 2020, pp. 1216-1229


Defence gene expression and phloem quality contribute to mesophyll and phloem resistance to aphids in wild barley


Daniel J Leybourne, Tracy A Valentine, Jean A H Robertson, Estefania Pérez-Fernández, Angela M Main, Alison J Karley, Jorunn I B Bos

Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 70, 2019 Apr, pp. 4011-4026


Book chapters


Online decision support systems, remote sensing and artificial intelligence applications for wheat pest management


DJ Leybourne, M Ramsden, S White, R Wang, H Huang, C Xie, P Yang

Advances in understanding insect pests affecting wheat and other cereals, S Eigenbrode, A Rashed, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, 2023, pp. 411-444


Advances in pest risk assessment techniques focusing on invertebrate pests of European outdoor crops


MW Ramsden, S Telling, DJ Leybourne, N Alonso, S White, N Georgantzis

Advances in monitoring of native and invasive insect pests of crops, M Fountain, T Pope, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, 2023 Apr 24


Conference papers


PestDSS: An Integrated Decision Support System for Sustainable Pest Management in Agriculture


Zhipeng Yuan, Shunbao Li, Ruolin Peng, Daniel Leybourne, Po Yang, Yang Li

2023 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 2023, pp. 1-6


Project reports


Pyrethroid sensitivity in UK cereal aphids


Foster S., DJ. Leybourne

AHDB, 2021 Feb


Updating a wheat bulb fly risk prediction model


D Leybourne, K Storer, S Ellis, P Berry

2020


Integrated pest management of cabbage stem flea beetle in oilseed rape


S White, S Ellis, F Pickering, Leybourne D, I Corkley, S Kendall, L Collins, M Newbert, L Cotton, R Phillips

2020

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