Biopesticide based sustainable pest management for safer production of vegetable legumes and brassicas in Asia and Africa

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Vegetable Centeren
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecologyen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.creator.identifierManuele Tamò: 0000-0002-5863-7421
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/ps.5480en
cg.identifier.iitathemePLANT PRODUCTION & HEALTH
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1526-498Xen
cg.issue9en
cg.journalPest Management Scienceen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.iitaPESTS OF PLANTSen
cg.subject.iitaPLANT HEALTHen
cg.subject.iitaPLANT PRODUCTIONen
cg.volume75en
dc.contributor.authorSrinivasan, R.en
dc.contributor.authorSevgan, S.en
dc.contributor.authorEkesi, S.en
dc.contributor.authorTamò, M.en
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-22T11:36:00Zen
dc.date.available2019-05-22T11:36:00Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/101342
dc.titleBiopesticide based sustainable pest management for safer production of vegetable legumes and brassicas in Asia and Africaen
dcterms.abstractVegetables are one of the important crops which could alleviate the poverty and malnutrition among the smallholder farmers in tropical Asia and Africa. However, a plethora of pests limit the productivity of these crops, leading to economic losses. Vegetable producers overwhelmingly rely on chemical pesticides in order to reduce pest‐caused economic losses. However, over‐reliance on chemical pesticides poses serious threats to human and environmental health. Hence, biopesticides offer a viable alternative to chemical pesticides in sustainable pest management programs. Baculoviruses such as nucleopolyhedrovirus (NPV) and granulovirus (GV) have been exploited as successful biological pesticides in agriculture, horticulture and forestry. Maruca vitrata multiple nucleocapsid NPV (MaviMNPV) was found to be a unique baculovirus specifically infecting pod borer on food legumes, and it has been successfully developed as a biopesticide in Asia and Africa. Entomopathogenic fungi also offer sustainable pest management options. Several strains of Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana have been tested and developed as biopesticides in Asia and Africa. This review specifically focuses on the discovery and development of entomopathogenic virus and fungi‐based biopesticides against major pests of vegetable legumes and brassicas in Asia and Africa.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2019-06-09
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSrinivasan, R., Sevgan, S., Ekesi, S. & Tamò, M. (2019). Biopesticide based sustainable pest management for safer production of vegetable legumes and brassicas in Asia and Africa. Pest Management Science, 1-25.en
dcterms.extent1-25en
dcterms.issued2019-05-10
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherWileyen
dcterms.subjectbeauveria bassianaen
dcterms.subjectmetarhizium anisopliaeen
dcterms.subjectvegetable legumesen
dcterms.subjectpest managementen
dcterms.subjectbiopesticidesen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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