Biocontrol Potential and its Exploitation in Sustainable Agriculture

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Biocontrol Potential and its Exploitation in Sustainable Agriculture is written by R. K. Upadhyay and published by Springer Science & Business Media. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0306465876 (ISBN 10) and 9780306465871 (ISBN 13).

Plant based Biotechnology has come to represent a means of mitigating the problems of global food security in the twenty first century. Products and processes in agriculture are increasingly becoming linked to science and cutting edge technology, to enable the engineering of what are in effect, designer plants. One of the most successful, non chemical approaches to pest management and disease control, which seeks a solution in terms of using living organisms to regulate the incidence of pests and and pathogens, providing a `natural control' while still maintaining the biological balance with the ecosystem. This volume, describes the various biological agents used to control insect pests of a variety of crops. Readers may also be interested in Volume 1: Crop diseases, Weeds and Nematodes, published in December 2000, ISBN 0-306-46460-8.