VITALIS WEKESA

LOW COST BIOPESTICIDES FOR SPIDER MITE CONTROL

PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF LOW COST BIOPESTICIDES FOR SPIDER MITE CONTROL IN VEGETABLE AND FRUIT ORCHARDS

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Introduction of exotic diseases for classical biological control of exotic pests is sometimes inevitable and these pathogens need to be augmented. However, success of this option depends on effective strain selection, production and release technologies to be used. The process of strain selection involves survey and collection from different places followed by pathobiological studies. This workaddresses each of the biological control aspects noted above and places them in the overall context of controlling spider mites with the fungal pathogen, Neozygites floridana Weiser & Muma.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 176g
• ISBN-13: 9783639234558
• ISBN-10: 3639234553
• Artikelnr.: 28635880

Autorenporträt

Works with Norwegian Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research (Bioforsk). He holds a Bachelors degree in Biology and a Masters Degree in Microbiology from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology (JKUAT), Kenya. He Has a Doctorate in Agricultural Entomology from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil.