Plant-Microbe Interactions and Biological Control.(Review)

Crop Science;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Plant-Microbe Interactions and Biological Control. Edited by G.L. BOLAND AND L.D. KUYKENDALL...prominent researchers in the field of biological control and rhizobial plant interactions...this book cover a wide spectrum of biological control applications and systems. In particular...

How risky is biological control? Comment. (response to D. Simberloff and...

Ecology;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......a paper How risky is biological control? (Simberloff and Stiling...risk of dispersal of biological control agents to areas that...that introduction of biological control agents is risky, and...

110 years of federal biological control research.

M2 Presswire;  November 27, 2000 ;     440 words ......2000-US ARS: 110 years of federal biological control research (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...marked more than a century of biological control research with the publication of 110 Years of Biological Control Research and Development in...

How risky is biological control?(Special Features)

Ecology;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......non-indigenous species introduced for biological control purposes. Howarth (1983, 1985, 1991...attracted vigorous rebuttals from biological-control practitioners who argue that the...that there is no inherent reason why biological control is risky, and that existing protocols...

Controlling pests without chemicals

USA Today;  June 1, 1997 ;     445 words ...A survey examining the success of biological control of insects in agriculture concludes...world riddled with insect pests, biological control most often is the use of an insect...of their use, can be combined with biological control and other agricultural tools in a...

The bugs in biological control

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 25, 1997 ;     655 words ......biggest question mark surrounding biological control techniques: Farmers can always stop...those habits change? "People consider biological control a green alternative to insecticides...been the failure historically of biological control efforts to place pest control strategies...

Prospects of Utilizing Hypoviruses for Chestnut Blight Biological Control

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology;  April 1, 2004 ;     290 words ...P-16 A biological control phenomenon termed hypovirulence...Unfortunately, significant levels of biological control in the eastern forest have...introduced artificially. Success of biological control at some locations and its failure...

Theory for biological control: recent developments.(Special Features)

Ecology;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION Classical biological control in long-lived ecosystems...been practically useful in biological control (Murdoch et al. 1985). In...one source of guidance for biological control. Information on the natural...

FOREIGN HERBIVORES MAY BE KEY TO CURBING INVASIVE WEEDS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 21, 2007 ;     396 words ......lead to discovery of new biological control agents for several exotic...at the ARS South American Biological Control Laboratory in Hurlingham...and the ARS Australian Biological Control Laboratory in Indooroopilly...

Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the United States

Northeastern Naturalist;  October 1, 2006 ;     241 words ...Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the United...of the theory and practice of biological control and includes practical advice...documentation, handling, and monitoring of biological control agents. Each of the 12 guidelines...

(book review)

Ecology;  June 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......1999. Theoretical approaches to biological control. Cambridge University Press, New...context, Theoretical approaches to biological control by Brad Hawkins and Howard Cornell...are grouped into five main themes ( Biological control theory: past and present ; Ecological...

How risky is biological control? Reply. (response to article by J.H. Frank...

Ecology;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......metaphor is appropriate for biological control (Frank 1998), we cannot agree that, because biological control, like surgery, has learned from...surgical. Of course much of modern biological control, particularly of plants, is...

Comparative genetic studies of native and introduced Coccinellidae in...

European Journal of Entomology;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......genetic diversity, colonizing species, biological control Abstract. During the past four decades...with guidance for the practice of biological control (Roderick, 1992). Questions persist...genetic variation to the practice of biological control (Unruh & Messing, 1993; Unruh...

When is biological control evolutionarily stable (or is it)?

Ecology;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......predators, parasitoids, and pathogens in biological control programs. Control, as employed here...control agent (Beddington et al. 1978). Biological control in this paper denotes control from...Waage and Mills 1992). Effective biological control agents cause substantial, persistent...

US BIOLOGICAL CONTROL TECHNICAL LTD SETS UP JV

AsiaInfo Services;  June 10, 1997 ;     122 words ......Services 06-10-1997 US Biological Control Technical Ltd Sets...Services, Inc -- The US Biological Control tech Ltd announced...percent belongs to the Biological Control Tech Ltd. The Biological...