The global sustainability agenda is increasing the demand for reduction in inputs into agricultural production while maintaining profitable yield of quality products. Plant diseases are a major constraint for both yield and product quality, but often tools for their control are ineffective or...
Author(s)
Collinge, D. B.; Jensen, D. F.; Rabiey, M.; Sarrocco, S.; Shaw, M. W.; Shaw, R. H.
Publisher
Wiley, Oxford, UK
Citation
Plant Pathology, 2022, 71, 5, pp 1024-1047
Author(s)
Colmenarez, Y. C.; Corniani, N.; Jahnke, S. M.; Sampaio, M. V.; Vásquez, C.
Publisher
IntechOpen Limited, London, UK
Citation
Horticultural crops, 2020, pp 1-23
Author(s)
Ghosh, S. K.; Chaudhary, M.; Manjunatha, N.
Publisher
Springer, Singapore, Singapore
Citation
Innovative pest management approaches for the 21st century, 2020, pp 273-297
This chapter describes some of the specific challenges faced by biological control practitioners and regulators in different countries and regions throughout the world. It is concluded that the challenges surrounding biological control regulation are immense and clearly need to be tackled given the ...
Author(s)
Barratt, B. I. P.; Colmenarez, Y. C.; Day, M. D.; Ivey, P.; Klapwijk, J. N.; Loomans, A. J. M.; Mason, P. G.; Palmer, W. A.; Sankaran, K. V.; Zhang Feng
Publisher
CSIRO Publishing, Clayton, Australia
Citation
Biological control: global impacts, challenges and future directions of pest management, 2021, pp 166-196
This chapter discusses the benefits and risks of applying living organisms (e.g. arthropods, bacteria, fungi) or viruses to control arthropod pests, weeds and plant diseases. As for other pest control measures, the benefits that can be created by biological control should be weighed against...
Author(s)
Collatz, J.; Hinz, H. L.; Kaser, J. M.; Freimoser, F. M.
Publisher
CSIRO Publishing, Clayton, Australia
Citation
Biological control: global impacts, challenges and future directions of pest management, 2021, pp 142-165
This chapter documents the biological control efforts in the Oceania region and highlights some of the spectacular (and little-known) successes, as well as biological control programmes that have not been successful. Attempts have been made to explain why some programmes were less successful than...
Author(s)
Day, M. D.; Cock, M. J. W.; Conant, P.; Cooke, B.; Furlong, M. J.; Paynter, Q.; Ramadan, M. M.; Wright, M. G.
Publisher
CSIRO Publishing, Clayton, Australia
Citation
Biological control: global impacts, challenges and future directions of pest management, 2021, pp 334-367
This chapter summarizes the relevance of the Convention on Biodiversity to biological control and the implications for biological control, identifies what is Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) and how it is currently practised, highlights the public good and commercial aspects of biological control,...
Author(s)
Mason, P. G.; Klapwijk, J. N.; Smith, D.
Publisher
CSIRO Publishing, Clayton, Australia
Citation
Biological control: global impacts, challenges and future directions of pest management, 2021, pp 197-219
This chapter documents the biological control efforts (targeted at arthropods, weeds and microorganisms) in the Eurasian region, highlighting a number of cases of successes and failures. It is indicated that despite a long history of importation biological control, the regulatory framework of the...
Author(s)
Schaffner, U.; Knapp, M.; Seier, M.
Publisher
CSIRO Publishing, Clayton, Australia
Citation
Biological control: global impacts, challenges and future directions of pest management, 2021, pp 403-437
Recent frequent and surprisingly rapid accidental natural enemy introductions call into question the regulatory emphasis on a rigorous and protracted process for approving importation biological control introductions, when adventives (unintended introductions, not infrequently the same species of...
Author(s)
Weber, D. C.; Hajek, A. E.; Hoelmer, K. A.; Schaffner, U.; Mason, P. G.; Stouthamer, R.; Talamas, E. I.; Buffington, M.; Hoddle, M. S.; Haye, T.
Publisher
CSIRO Publishing, Clayton, Australia
Citation
Biological control: global impacts, challenges and future directions of pest management, 2021, pp 110-140
This chapter provides a summary of the biological control efforts on the African continent and some of its offshore islands, with a focus on successes and ways in which the establishment and impact of biological control agents can be enhanced.
Author(s)
Witt, A. B. R.; Cock, M. J. W.; Day, M. D.; Zachariades, C.; Strathie, L. W.; Conlong, D. E.; Hill, M. P.; Roy, S.
Publisher
CSIRO Publishing, Clayton, Australia
Citation
Biological control: global impacts, challenges and future directions of pest management, 2021, pp 368-402