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

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    Date
    2019-05-10
    Author
    Srinivasan, R.
    Sevgan, S.
    Ekesi, S.
    Tamò, M.
    Type
    Journal Article
    Target Audience
    Scientists
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    Vegetables 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.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ps.5480
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/5837
    Non-IITA Authors ORCID
    Manuele Tamòhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5863-7421
    Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ps.5480
    Research Themes
    PLANT PRODUCTION & HEALTH
    IITA Subjects
    Pests Of Plants; Plant Health; Plant Production
    Agrovoc Terms
    Beauveria Bassiana; Metarhizium Anisopliae; Vegetable Legumes; Pest Management; Biopesticides
    Regions
    Africa; Asia; East Africa; West Africa
    Countries
    Kenya; Nigeria
    Journals
    Pest Management Science
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