Relationship Between Entomopathogenic Nematodes And Some Tephritids

ISBN-13: 9783848419807 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str.

Nehad Soliman

Opis

Entomopathogenic nematodes are environmental friend bioagents and could be used safely avoiding chemical pollution caused by insecticides. Entomopathogenic nematodes can be reared easily and could be mass reared artificially.It could be produced in billions using inexpensive costs.It can be generally concluded that the pathogenicity of entomopathogenic nematodes seems to be a matter of complex system. It includes, for example, the species and the strain of nematode, the ecological properties of soil in which the nematode is borne, the ambient climatic conditions (e.g. temperature and ultraviolet)and physiological status of the nematodes and the host. Native nematode strains are the most effective on their target pests as the may be modified to the environmental conditions of their native land. In Egypt, many native entomopathogenic nematode strains are recorded and used against many agricultural pests.

O autorze

The author is graduated from faculty of science, Cairo university, Egypt. She had chosen to study the world of insects, specially the harmful ones. She had the Ph.D in 2002.She had chosen to figure out the possibility of using entomopathogenic nematodes as bioagents against the most harmful and world wide spread tephritid,Mediterranean fruitfly.