title: Insect pathogenic fungi in biological control: status and future challenges
creator: Eilenberg, Jørgen
creator: Meyling, Nicolai V.
creator: Jensen, Annette B.
subject:  Regulation
subject:  Markets and trade
subject:  Biodiversity and ecosystem services
description: In Europe, insect pathogenic fungi have in decades played a significant role in biological control of insects. With respect to the different strategies of biological control and with respects to the different genera of insect pathogenic fungi, the success and potential vary, however. Classical biological control: no strong indication of potential. Inundation and inoculation biological control: success stories with the genera Metarhizium, Beauveria, Isaria/Paecilomyces and Lecanicillium (previously Verticillium). However, the genotypes employed seem to include a narrow spectrum of the many potentially useful genotypes. Conservation biological control: Pandora and Entomophthora have a strong potential, but also Beauveria has a potential to be explored further.  The main bottleneck for further exploitation of insect pathogenic fungi in biological control is the limited knowledge of host pathogen interaction at the fungal genotype level. 
publisher: International Organization for Biological and Integrated Control of Noxious Animals and Plants
contributor: Ehlers, Ralf-Udo
contributor: Crickmore, Neil
contributor: Enkerli, Jürg
contributor: Glazer, Itamar
contributor: Lopez-Ferber, Miguel
contributor: Tkaczuk, Cezary
date: 2009-06
type: Conference paper, poster, etc. 
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://orgprints.org/16060/2/16060.pdf
identifier: Eilenberg, Jørgen; Meyling, Nicolai V. and Jensen, Annette B. (2009) Insect pathogenic fungi in biological control: status and future challenges. Insect Pathogens and Insect Parasitic Nematodes, IOBC/WPRS Working Group Meeting, Pamplona, Spain, 22-25 June 2009. In: Ehlers, Ralf-Udo; Crickmore, Neil; Enkerli, Jürg; Glazer, Itamar; Lopez-Ferber, Miguel and Tkaczuk, Cezary (Eds.) IOBC wprs Bulletin, International Organization for Biological and Integrated Control of Noxious Animals and Plants.
relation: http://orgprints.org/16060/