Biological control : a global perspective : case studies from around the world / / edited by Charles Vincent, Mark S. Goettel, George Lazarovits.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Vincent, Charles, 1953-; Goettel, Mark S. 1954-; Lazarovits, George.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: [10], xvi, 440 p. :; ill. (some col.).

Table of Contents

Adventures in biocontrol / George Lazarovits, Mark S. Goettel and Charles Vincent -- Search for biological control agents of invasive Mediterranean snails / James Coupland and Geoff Baker -- Introductions of parasitoids to control apple ermine moth in British Columbia / Joan E. Cossentine and Ulrich Kuhlmann -- Introductions of parasitoids to control the imported cabbageworm / Roy Van Driesche -- Biological control of cassava green mite in Africa : overcoming challenges to implementation / Steve Yaninek -- The multicoloured Asian ladybird beetle : beneficial or nuisance organism? / Eric Lucas ... [et al.] -- Introduction of a fungus into North America for control of gypsy moth / Ann E. Hajek -- Weevils control invasive thistles in Canada / Peter Harris -- How many and what kind of agents for the biological control of weeds : a case study with diffuse knapweed / Judith H. Myers -- Why is biocontrol of common ragweed, the most allergenic weed in eastern Europe, still only a hope? / Levente Kiss -- Biocontrol for everyman : public participation in a weed project / Robert N. Wiedenmann ... [et al.] -- Biological control for insect pests in greenhouses : an unexpected success / Joop C. van Lenteren -- From chemical to biological control in Canadian greenhouse crops / Les Shipp ... [et al.] -- An endemic omnivorous predator for control of greenhouse pests / Dave Gillespie... [et al.] -- Entomopathogenic nematodes : from science to commercial use / Ralf-Udo Ehlers -- A novel nematode for management of slugs / Michael Wilson -- A novel bacterium for control of grass grubs / Trevor A. Jackson -- How early discoveries about Bacillus thuringiensis prejudiced subsequent research and use / Jean-Charles Cote -- Development of resistance to the biopesticide Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki / Alida F. Janmaat -- How much biocontrol is enough? / Alison Stewart, Kristin McLean and John Hunt -- Control of root diseases with Trichoderma spp. in forest nurseries of central Siberia / Tatyana I. Gromovykh ... [et al.] -- Commercial development of Trichoderma virens for damping-off disease / Robert D. Lumsden and James F. Knauss -- Trichoderma stromaticum for management of witches' broom of cacao in Brazil / Alan W.V. Pomella ... [et al.] -- Lessons learned from Sporidesmium, a fungal agent for control of Sclerotia-forming fungal pathogens / Deborah R. Fravel -- Sporodex, fungal biocontrol for powdery mildew in greenhouse crops / William R. Jarvis ... [et al.] -- Potential and limitations of Microsphaeropsis ochraceae, an agent for biosanitation of apple scab / Odile Carisse, Gregg Holloway and Mary Leggett -- Competitive exclusion of aflatoxin producers : farm-driven research and development / Peter J. Cotty ... [et al.] -- Aflatoxin control in cotton and groundnuts : regulatory aspects / Shanaz Bacchus -- Postharvest biocontrol : new concepts and applications / Michael Wisniewski ... [et al.] -- Development of the mycoherbicide, BioMal / Susan M. Boyetchko ... [et al.] -- Development of Chondrostereum purpureum as a mycoherbicide for deciduous brush control / William Hintz -- Developing the production system for Chondrostereum purpureum / Paul Y. de la Bastide and William E. Hintz -- Beauveria bassiana for pine caterpillar management in the People's Republic of China / Zenghzi Li -- Green Muscle, a fungal biopesticide for control of grasshoppers and locusts in Africa / Jurgen Langewald and Christiann Kooyman -- Pollinators as vectors of biocontrol agents : the B52 story / Peter Kevan, John Sutton and Les Shipp -- Genetic modification for improvement of virulence of Metarhizium anisopliae as a microbial insecticide / Raymond J. St. Leger -- Madex and Virosoft, viral biopesticides for codling moth control / Charles Vincent, Martin Andermatt and Jose Valuro -- A nucleopolyhedrovirus for control of velvetbean caterpillar in Brazilian soybeans / Flavio Moscardi -- Abietiv, a viral biopesticide for control of the balsam fir sawfly / Christopher J. Lucarotti, Gatan Moreau and Edward G. Kettella -- Field tests in the UK of a genetically modified Baculovirus / Jenny S. Cory -- Control of mites in pome fruit by inoculation and conservation / Noubar J. Bostanian and Jacques Lasnier -- Management of aphid populations in cotton through conservation : delaying insecticide spraying has its benefits / Don Steinkraus -- Management of pests and diseases in New Zealand and Australia vineyards / Geoff M. Gurr ... [et al.] -- Take-all decline : model system in the science of biological control and clue to the success of intensive cropping / R. James Cook -- The biocontrol network : a Canadian example of the importance of networking / Jean-Louis Schwartz, Wayne Campbell and Raynald Laprade.