The Ecology of Fungal Entomopathogens

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Roy, Helen E. (Editor), Vega, Fernando E. (Editor), Chandler, Dave. (Editor), Goettel, Mark S. (Editor), Pell, Judith. (Editor), Wajnberg, Eric. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Microbiology.; Plant diseases.; Entomology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Pathology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3966-8

Understanding of the ecology of fungal entomopathogens has vastly increased since the early 1800s, but remains challenging. The often complex interactions between pathogen and host are being unravelled through eloquent research and the importance of the often subtle interactions, in determining the...

Table of Contents:

• Deep Space and hidden depths: understanding the evolution and ecology of fungal entomopathogens
• Fungal evolution and taxonomy
• Molecular ecology of fungal entomopathogens: molecular genetic and their applications in population and fate studies
• Principles from community and metapopulation ecology: application to fungal entomopathogens
• Challenges in modeling complexity of fungal entomopathogens in semi-natural populations of insects
• Fungal entomopathogens in a tritrophic context
• Entomopathogenic fungi and insect behavior: from unsuspecting hosts to targeted vectors
• Fungal entomopathogens in the rhizosphere
• Endophytic fungal entomopathogens with activity against plant pathogens: ecology and evolution
• Ecological considerations in producing and formulating fungal entomopathogens for use in insect biocontrol
• Fungal pathogens as classical biological control agents against arthropods
• Ecological factors in the inundative use of fungal entomopathogens
• Conservation biological control using fungal entomopathogens.