Fungi as biocontrol agents : progress, problems and potential /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2001.
• Subjects: Fungi as biological pest control agents.; Weeds and Noxious Plants.; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Biological Control.; Biotechnology (General), (Revised June 2002); Pathogens, Parasites and Infectious Diseases (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Fungi.; Biological control.; Biological control agents.; Biosafety.; Formulations.; Natural enemies.; Plant diseases.; Plant pests.; Production.; Registration.; Risk assessment.; Weeds.; Electronic books.
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This book presents topics on the development, improvement and commercialization of fungi for the biological control of pests, weeds and diseases which are of economic importance. Common themes such as production, formulation and application of technologies, biosafety, risk assessment and registratio...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Fungal Biological Control Agents : Progress, Problems and Potential / T.M. Butt, C. Jackson and N. Magan
• Commercial Use of Fungi as Plant Disease Biological Control Agents : Status and Prospects / J.M. Whipps and R.D. Lumsden
• Use of Hyphomycetous Fungi for Managing Insect Pests / G.D. Inglis, M.S. Goettel, T.M. Butt and H. Strasser
• Biology, Ecology and Pest Management Potential of Entomophthorales / J.K. Pell, J. Eilenberg, A.E. Hajek and D.C. Steinkraus
• Exploitation of the Nematophagous Fungus Verticillium chlamydosporium Goddard for the Biological Control of Root-knot Nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) / B.R. Kerry
• Fungal Biocontrol Agents of Weeds / H.C. Evans, M.P. Greaves and A.K. Watson
• Monitoring the Fate of Biocontrol Fungi / M.J. Bidochka
• Prospects for Strain Improvement of Fungal Pathogens of Insects and Weeds / R. St Leger and S. Screen
• Physiological Approaches to Improving the Ecological Fitness of Fungal Biocontrol Agents / N. Magan
• Production, Stabilization and Formulation of Fungal Biocontrol Agents / S.P. Wraight, M.A. Jackson and S.L. de Kock
• The Spray Application of Mycopesticide Formulations / R. Bateman and A. Chapple
• Toxic Metabolites of Fungal Biocontrol Agents / A. Vey, R. Hoagland and T.M. Butt
• Safety of Fungal Biocontrol Agents / M.S. Goettel, A.E. Hajek, J.P. Siegel and H.C. Evans
• Fungal Biological Control Agents : Appraisal and Recommendations / T.M. Butt, C. Jackson and N. Magan.