TY - BOOK AU - edited by Vincent, Charles AU - Goettel, Mark S. AU - Lazarovits, George TI - Biological control: a global perspective: SN - 9781845932657 U1 - 571.7 PY - 2007/// CY - Wallingford, England PB - CABI N1 - Includes Index; Introduction 1 Adventures in Biocontrol Classical Biocontrol Programmes 2 Search for Biological Control Agents of Invasive Mediterranean Snails 3 Introductions of Parasitoids to Control the Apple Ermine Moth in British Columbia 4 Introductions of Parasitoids to Control the Imported Cabbageworm 5 Biological Control of the Cassave Green Mite in Africa: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation 6 The Multicoloured Asian Ladybird Beetle: Beneficial or Nuisance Organism? 7 Introduction of a Fungus into North America for Control of Gypsy Moth 8 Weevils Control Invasive Thistles in Canada 9 How Many and What Kind of Agents for the Biological Control of Weeds: a Case Study with Diffuse Knapweed 10 Why is Biocontrol of Common Ragweed, the Most Allergenic Weed in Eastern Europe, Still only a Hope? 11 Biocontrol for Everyman: Public Participation in a Weed Project Inundative (or Augmentative) Biocontrol Programmes 1) Using Macroorganisms 12 Biological Control for Insect Pests in Greenhouses: an Unexpected Success 13 From Chemical to Biological Control in Canadian Greenhouse Crops 14 An Endemic Omnivorous Predator for Control of Greenhouse Pests 15 Entomopathogenic Nematodes: from Science to Commercial use 16 A Novel Nematode for Management of Slugs 2) Using Microorganisms Bacteria 17 A Novel Bacterium for Control of Grass Grub 18 How Early Discoveries about Bacillus Thuringiensis Prejudiced Subsequent Research and Use 19 Development of Resistance to the Biopesticide Bacillus Thuringiensis Kurstaki Fungi 20 How Much Biocontrol is Enough? 21 Control of Root Diseases with Trichoderma spp. in Forest Nurseries of Central Siberia 22 Commercial Development of Trichoderma Virens for Damping -off Disease 23 Trichoderma Stromaticum for Management of Witches' Broom of Cacao in Brazil 24 Lessons Learned from Sporidesmium, a Fungal Agent for Control of Sclerotia-Forming Fungal Pathogens 25 Sporodex, Fungal Biocontrol for Powdery Mildew in Greenhouse Crops 26 Potential and Limitations of Microsphaeropsis Ochraceae, and Agent for Biosanitation of Apple Scab 27 Competitive Exclusion of Aflatoxin Producers: Farmer-Drive Research and Development 28 Aflatoxin Control in Cotton and Groundnuts: Regulatory Aspects 29 Postharvest Biocontrol: New Concepts and Applications 30 Development of the Mycoherbicide, BioMal 31 Development of Chondrostereum Purpureum as a Mycoherbicide for Deciduous Brush Control 32 Developing the Production System for Chondrostereum Purpureum 33 Beauveria Bassiana for Pine Caterpillar Management in the People's Republic of China 34 Green Muscle, a Fungal Biopesticide for Control of Grasshoppers and Locusts in Africa 35 Pollinators as Vectors of Biocontrol Agents-the B52 story 36 Genetic Modification for Improvement of Virulence of Metarhizium Anisopliae as a Microbial Insecticide Viruses 37 Madex and Virosoft, Viral Biopesticides for Codling Moth Control 38 A Nucleopolyhedrovirus for Control of the Velvetbean Caterpillar in Brazillian Soybeans 39 Abietiv a Viral Biopesticide for Control of the Balsam Fir Sawfly 40 Field Tests in the UK of a Genetically Modified Baculovirus Conservation Biocontrol Programmes 4 Control of Mites in Pome Fruits by Inoculation and Conservation 42 Management of Aphid Populations in Cotton through Conservation: Delaying Insecticide Spraying has its Benefits 43 Management of Pests and Diseases in New Zealand and Australian Vineyards 44 Take-all Decline: Model System in the Science of Biological Control and Clue to the Success of Intensive Cropping Networking in Biocontrol 45 The Biocontrol Network: a Canadian Example of the Importance of Networking ER -