Quality Control and Production of Biological Control Agents ：Theory and Testing Procedures

Publication subTitle ：Theory and Testing Procedures

Author： vanLenteren J.C.

Publisher： CABI Publishing‎

Publication year： 2003

E-ISBN: 9780851998367

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780851996882

Subject： S476 biocontrol

Keyword： Plant Pathology and Diseases Insecticide and Herbicide Technology Pest Control Technology

Language： ENG

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Description

The use of biological control agents has been increasing worldwide and there are now many companies mass-producing such organisms, particularly for the control of insect pests. However, there is a great need for quality control in the production and use of these natural enemies, which include insect parasitoids and predators, fungi and viruses. This book has been written by leading scientists from Europe and North America to provide both background theory and practical guidance on this subject.

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Quality Control and Production of Biological Control Agents Theory and Testing Procedures

1 Need for Quality Control of Massproduced Biological Control Agents

2 Aspects of Total Quality Control for the Production of Natural Enemies

3 A Variable-response Model for Parasitoid Foraging Behaviour

4 Variations in Natural-enemy Foraging Behaviour: Essential Element of a Sound Biological Control Theory

5 The Parasitoids’ Need for Sweets: Sugars in Mass Rearing and Biological Control

6 Managing Captive Populations for Release: a Population-genetic Perspective

7 Adaptive Recovery after Fitness Reduction: the Role of Population Size

8 The Use of Unisexual Wasps in Biological Control

9 Comparison of Arti.cially vs. Naturally Reared Natural Enemies and Their Potential for Use in Biological Control

10 Pathogens of Mass-produced Natural Enemies and Pollinators

11 Commercial Availability of Biological Control Agents

12 Mass Production, Storage, Shipment and Release of Natural Enemies

13 Regulation of Import and Release of Mass-produced Natural Enemies: a Risk-assessment Approach

14 Quality Assurance in North America: Merging Customer and Producer Needs

15 State of Affairs and Future Directions of Product Quality Assurance in Europe

16 The Relationship between Results from Laboratory Product-control Tests and Large-cage Tests Where Dispersal of Natural Enemies is Possible: a Case-study with Phytoseiulus persimilis

17 Quality of Augmentative Biological Control Agents: a Historical Perspective and Lessons Learned from Evaluating Trichogramma

18 Towards the Standardization of Quality Control of Fungal and Viral Biocontrol Agents

19 Guidelines for Quality Control of Commercially Produced Natural Enemies

20 Basic Statistical Methods for Quality Control Workers

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