Insect pathogens as biological control agents: Back to the future

LA Lacey, D Grzywacz, DI Shapiro-Ilan, R Frutos… - Journal of invertebrate …, 2015 - Elsevier
The development and use of entomopathogens as classical, conservation and augmentative
biological control agents have included a number of successes and some setbacks in the …

Can we use entomopathogenic fungi as endophytes for dual biological control of insect pests and plant pathogens?

LR Jaber, BH Ownley - Biological control, 2018 - Elsevier
An increasing number of recent studies demonstrate that entomopathogenic fungi, often
solely considered as insect pathogens, play additional roles in nature, including …

The development, regulation and use of biopesticides for integrated pest management

D Chandler, AS Bailey, GM Tatchell… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over the past 50 years, crop protection has relied heavily on synthetic chemical pesticides,
but their availability is now declining as a result of new legislation and the evolution of …

Microbial volatile emissions as insect semiochemicals

TS Davis, TL Crippen, RW Hofstetter… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - Springer
We provide a synthesis of the literature describing biochemical interactions between
microorganisms and insects by way of microbial volatile organic compound (MVOC) …

Review on safety of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Beauveria brongniartii

G Zimmermann - Biocontrol Science and Technology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The commercial use of entomopathogenic fungi and their products as mycoinsecticides
necessitates their registration. Worldwide, several registration guidelines are available …

Fungal entomopathogens: new insights on their ecology

FE Vega, MS Goettel, M Blackwell, D Chandler… - Fungal ecology, 2009 - Elsevier
An important mechanism for insect pest control should be the use of fungal
entomopathogens. Even though these organisms have been studied for more than 100y …

Endophytic fungal entomopathogens with activity against plant pathogens: ecology and evolution

BH Ownley, KD Gwinn, FE Vega - BioControl, 2010 - Springer
Dual biological control, of both insect pests and plant pathogens, has been reported for the
fungal entomopathogens, Beauveria bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill.(Ascomycota: Hypocreales) …

Ecology of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae in temperate agroecosystems: potential for conservation biological control

NV Meyling, J Eilenberg - Biological control, 2007 - Elsevier
It is increasingly recognized that the biodiversity in agroecosystems deliver significant
ecosystem services to agricultural production such as biological control of pests …

Plant chemistry and natural enemy fitness: effects on herbivore and natural enemy interactions

PJ Ode - Annual review of entomology, 2006 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Tremendous strides have been made regarding our understanding of how host
plant chemistry influences the interactions between herbivores and their natural enemies …

Selection of specific endophytic bacterial genotypes by plants in response to soil contamination

SD Siciliano, N Fortin, A Mihoc, G Wisse… - Applied and …, 2001 - Am Soc Microbiol
Plant-bacterial combinations can increase contaminant degradation in the rhizosphere, but
the role played by indigenous root-associated bacteria during plant growth in contaminated …