Fungal Biocontrol: The growing emphasis on environmental and food safety issues has intensified interest in the development of biological control as a means for controlling pests. Biocontrol offers an attractive alternative to the use of chemical pesticides in crop protection. The effective use of natural enemies in biological control programs is contingent upon understanding their ecology and that of their targets as well as their interaction with production practices. Diseases form an important component of the natural enemy complex of spider mites and can be exploited for their control....
Fungal Biocontrol: The growing emphasis on environmental and food safety issues has intensified interest in the development of biological control as ...