• This RIRDC report looks at the effectiveness of green ants in controlling pests in African mahogany or red cedar. (agrifutures.com.au)
  • The fungi Trichoderma harzianum, T. polysporum, T. viride, Paeciliomyces fumosoroseus, P. lilacinus, Verticillium/lecanicillium lecanii, Ulocladium oudemansii, U. atrum and Beauveria bassiana are used or considered to be used for biocontrol of pests and plant diseases. (aaem.pl)
  • They are effective for biological control programs as they are easily mass-reared with minimal space requirements, and are able to control pests in its first stage of development (egg), i.e. before any injury to be caused to the plants. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This Special Collection will focus on current knowledge and advances in the biology, ecology, rearing technology, field application, risk assessment as well as potential integration in Integrated Pest Management programs of egg parasitoids, with the aim to promote their potential use as biological control against major pests such as Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda, Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Halyomorpha halys, and Spotted Lantern Fly Lycorma delicatula. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The use of living natural enemies to control pests or: The active manipulation of antagonistic organisms to reduce pest population densities, either animal or plant, to noneconomically important levels. (ufl.edu)
  • Biological and induced resistance tools for management of insect and disease pests in greenhouses, and Fusarium head blight in wheat. (dal.ca)
  • In commercial greenhouses, aphids (Homoptera: Aphidoidea) are economically one of the most important agricultural pests worldwide, causing direct damage by plant sucking and indirectly as vectors of plant viruses. (scialert.net)
  • The effects of different fluorescent pseudomonads, including some known biocontrol agents of other plant pathogens, on fungal growth of the haploid Verticillium dahliae and/or the amphidiploid Verticillium longisporum were compared on pectin-rich medium, in microfluidic interaction channels, allowing visualization of single hyphae, or on Arabidopsis thaliana roots. (frontiersin.org)
  • Potential of Yeasts as Biocontrol Agents of the Phytopathogen Causing Cacao Witches' Broom Disease: Is Microbial Warfare a Solution? (apsnet.org)
  • Developing methods for producing cells of biocontrol agents that are effective and can be successfully incorporated into a biological control product requires considerable research effort. (usda.gov)
  • In this paper, we describe important factors to consider when producing and formulating cells of Bacillus and other biocontrol agents. (usda.gov)
  • Microbial selection procedures that require prospective biocontrol agents to possess both efficacy and amenability to production in liquid culture enhance the likelihood of selecting agents with enhanced commercial development potential. (usda.gov)
  • Human exposure to these fungi in environments where they may naturally occur or are used as biocontrol agents has not been directly investigated to date. (aaem.pl)
  • Successful biocontrol is based on the perception of signals derived from both the plant symbiont and the fungal prey. (frontiersin.org)
  • Conidial germlings proved particularly useful for simple and rapid compound screening, whereas more elaborate microscopic analysis of microcolonies and fully differentiated mycelia was essential to understand process-specific responses, such as plant symbiosis and biocontrol. (frontiersin.org)
  • Biocontrol by competition for resources describes the more effective mobilization and absorption of nutrients from the soil by Trichoderma than by fungal plant pathogens inhabiting the same space ( Chet and Inbar, 1994 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Correct formulation of hypotheses based on the theoretical definition of independence (Bliss independence or Loewe additivity) and the subsequent and statistical testing for the independence-synergistic-antagonistic interactions have rarely been carried out thus far in studies on biocontrol of plant diseases. (apsnet.org)
  • Several research strategies, including formulation of synergy hypotheses in relation to biocontrol mechanisms, are outlined to exploit microbial mixtures for uses in biocontrol of plant diseases. (apsnet.org)
  • The biocontrol agent can be an insect species, a fungus, or grazing animals. (oregonstate.edu)
  • The section on Biological Control in the PNW Weed Management Handbook provides details on various biocontrol methods. (oregonstate.edu)
  • The history of weed species and release of biocontrol agents is included. (oregonstate.edu)
  • Most of the important biocontrol agents against weeds are already populating the noxious weeds in Oregon. (oregonstate.edu)
  • Each biocontrol species requires a specific weed host, so it's important to select the right biocontrol agent for the target weed. (oregonstate.edu)
  • The genus Verticillium comprises soil-borne plant pathogens causing vascular wilt disease in numerous crops. (frontiersin.org)
  • Biological control of plant pathogens is an environmentally friendly method for reducing plant diseases. (usda.gov)
  • for use against plant pathogens is an enormous topic in general terms but limited in published specifics regarding formulations used in commercially available products. (usda.gov)
  • Trichoderma atroviride is a mycoparasitic fungus used as biological control agent to protect plants against fungal pathogens. (frontiersin.org)
  • Honey bees, Apis mellifera, have been implicated as vectors of plant pathogens. (researchgate.net)
  • Fortunately, nature has provided a variety of biological control agents-pathogens, parasites and predators-that affect every stage of the mosquito's life cycle. (nzdl.org)
  • KYE28 (KYEITTIHNLFRKLTHRLFRRNFGYT-LR), the representative sequence of helix D of heparin co-factor II, was demonstrated to be potent against agronomically important Gram-negative plant pathogens Xanthomonas vesicatoria and Xanthomonas oryzae, capable of inhibiting disease symptoms in detached tomato leaves. (lu.se)
  • The continued in the Netherlands during 2009-2019 for pathogens listed as potential bioterrorism agents. (cdc.gov)
  • The International organisation for Biological Control (IOBC) promotes environmentally safe methods of pest and disease control. (iobc-wprs.org)
  • 2022). In this study, we conducted a coordinated management strategies utilizing the phytoseiid mite A. swirskki , the predatory bug Eocanthecona furcellata and the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana , to control the major pest insects of tobacco planting areas in Southwestern China, including Bemisia tabaci , Thrips tabaci , Spodoptera litura and Helicoverpa assulta . (mapress.com)
  • The green ant is a powerful bio-control agent of over 50 pest species in tropical crops and trees. (agrifutures.com.au)
  • Over the past 100 years, over 200 pest problems have been solved worldwide via the use of biological controls. (ecolandscaping.org)
  • These insects were then subjected to many years of testing to make sure they are "species specific," i.e. if released, they will only kill the desired pest and will not themselves become invasive or damage non-target plants/insects. (ecolandscaping.org)
  • Sometimes nature alone serves up a biologic control that reduces a pest, as is the case with the gypsy moth , which caused major problems in MA in the early 1980s. (ecolandscaping.org)
  • Three species of European wasps have been released in New England by URI entomologists for biologic control of this pest. (ecolandscaping.org)
  • The Entomology Research Laboratory is committed to the development of effective biological control agents for forest, greenhouse and vegetable insect pest management. (uvm.edu)
  • The Insect Agroecology and Evolultion Lab focues on how humans have influenced insect pest evolution, genetics, and ecology by selecting particular strains of crop plants, cultivating crops, and moving them around the world. (uvm.edu)
  • Plant Pathology, Integrated Pest Management, Pesticide. (uvm.edu)
  • A form of inoculative biological control in which specialist natural enemies are imported from the supposed homeland of an adventive pest, and released in small numbers in attempt to establish a permanent population. (ufl.edu)
  • A variant form of classical biological control uses biological control agents imported from a third area, inhabited by a close relative of the target pest. (ufl.edu)
  • As an annual, nonwoody, nonrangeland plant, Puncher vine represents a departure from the traditional perennial range and pasture plant pest targeted for biological control. (ucr.edu)
  • Aphis fabae (Scopoli), Aphis craccivora (Koch) and Myzus persicae (Sulzer) are very important pest species of many greenhouse plants Saudi Arabia. (scialert.net)
  • Until recent years, frequent sprays with pesticides were needed for pest control especially in greenhouses which resulted in pesticide resistance. (scialert.net)
  • Integrated pest management (IPM) is a holistic approach to managing diseases, insects, and mites in the greenhouse, and is basically using one type of living agent to suppress another. (uvm.edu)
  • IPM can decrease pesticide exposure of workers and the environment, and can decrease pest control costs while still maintaining high-quality, pest-free plants for growers and researchers. (uvm.edu)
  • When the adult wasps emerge, they seek out the 2nd through 4th immature whitefly stages to parasitize.Each female wasp can parasitze up to 200 immature whiteflies.This parasitic wasp kills many whiteflies in our greenhouse and helps us to keep the pest population under control. (uvm.edu)
  • Clonostachys rosea isolate IK726 efficiently controls seed- and soil-borne diseases and can furthermore promote plant growth, but its ability to colonise plants internally is unknown. (iobc-wprs.org)
  • Impact of modes of actions of biological control agents against plant diseases. (wur.nl)
  • This innovative reference combines theory with current global practices involved in the biological control of diseases in 12 major crops highlighting the day-to-day challenges of organic crop management for cost-effective real-world application. (chipsbooks.com)
  • Plant diseases such as black pod, witches' broom, and frosty pod rot are major components of the decline in production. (apsnet.org)
  • Bacillus is a bacterial genus that contains many good candidates for the biological control of plant diseases. (usda.gov)
  • Netherlands Navy, Den Helder, the Netherlands (C. Stijnis) vention (CDC) Bioterrorism Agents/Diseases and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). (cdc.gov)
  • Bioterrorism Agents/Diseases classification ( 10 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Notifications of these diseases are potential bioterrorism agents were evaluated for pub- collected at the National Institute for Public Health lic health impact, dissemination possibilities, public and the Environment (RIVM), and data are made perception, and the need for special preparation ( 11 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Simulations used field data of plant and aphid populations sampled every few weeks in crops of winter barley and wheat at Long Ashton near Bristol during 1978-89. (britishecologicalsociety.org)
  • Orthophenylphenol is an antimicrobial agent used in agriculture, with limited use on food crops, but used as a fungicide on ornamental plants and turf and as a wood and paint preservative. (cdc.gov)
  • 2016. The beta-diversity of species interactions: Untangling the drivers of geographic variation in plant-pollinator diversity and function across scales. (montana.edu)
  • 2015. Wildfire disturbance and productivity as drivers of plant species diversity across spatial scales. (montana.edu)
  • 2013. Plant-pollinator interactions over 120 years: Loss of species, co-occurrence, and function. (montana.edu)
  • Ochna is a highly ornamental species that was introduced into Australia as a garden plant. (weeds.org.au)
  • The process of identifying an effective control agent usually starts by investigating natural predators of the invasive species in its original home territory. (ecolandscaping.org)
  • Four species have been released throughout the northern US and southern Canada, and they are substantially reducing this invasive plant. (ecolandscaping.org)
  • In Europe, this species is considered one of the most promising biological control agents of tree of heaven. (springer.com)
  • This new record provides encouraging evidence that the geographic occurrence of this species is expanding in Europe which may be indicative of its dispersal and establishment abilities, two key factors for a future biological control program. (springer.com)
  • By the 1840s, this species, valued for its fast-growing ability and its resistance to insect infestation and damage, was being widely planted as a shade tree for parks and public promenades in Europe, particularly in France and Italy (Shah, 1997 ). (springer.com)
  • Widely naturalized in Europe, tree of heaven has been included on the EPPO List of Invasive Alien Plants since 2004 (EPPO, 2021 ), and on the list of the 100 worst alien plant species in Europe (DAISIE European Invasive Alien Species Gateway 2012 ). (springer.com)
  • Egg parasitoids, especially species from the genus Trichogramma, make up one of the most commonly used groups of natural enemies for biological control programs worldwide. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Field and laboratory studies conducted in France, Italy and California during 1959-1961 demonstrated that the adults fed on a wide range of plant species, but reproduction succeeded only on Puncher vine, other species of Tribulus , and a few herbaceous annual Zygophyllaceae native to the southwestern United States ( Kallstroemia sp. (ucr.edu)
  • Both weevil species are multivoltine and produce a generation each month in the summer by reinfesting plants and attacking new plants as dispersed adults. (ucr.edu)
  • Both species overwinter as adults in reproductive diapause among surface debris, plant litter and on or around associate nonhost plant species. (ucr.edu)
  • However, no previous information or published data have been recorded on biological characteristics of O. albidipennis with different prey species in Saudi Arabia. (scialert.net)
  • Furthermore, the suitability of these prey species for this predator and their influence on life table parameters as a preliminary step to evaluating its utilization as an efficient biological control agent was tested. (scialert.net)
  • Several indigenous species of fish have been identified and tested against mosquito larvae in Goal A small fish, Aplocheilus block) or "kankatre", is very effective at controlling mosquitoes and malaria. (nzdl.org)
  • These agents cause less environmental damage through accumulation but are often more acutely toxic to humans and other animal species. (cdc.gov)
  • 2021 ). In many countries, management is largely dependent on the use of systemic (and non-selective) chemical herbicides and mechanical control, and clearly lacks a long-term and sustainable control. (springer.com)
  • Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 12, 767-777. (mapress.com)
  • 2013. Plant genotype, nutrients, and G x E interactions structure floral visitor communities. (montana.edu)
  • Witches' brooms increases arthropod-plant interactions in Ouratea hexasperma (Baill. (apsnet.org)
  • Specifically, it covers the following fields: pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics and drug metabolism research, dealing with established, new and potential drugs, herbal medicinal products, environmentally toxic chemicals, the mechanisms by which drugs and herbs can interact with each other and with biological systems, and the pharmacological and toxicological consequences of these interactions, as well as drug metabolism and excretion. (degruyter.com)
  • Here, we applied three different chemotropic assays to study the chemosensing capacity of T. atroviride toward compounds known or suspected to play a role in the mycoparasite/plant or host/prey fungal interactions and to cover the complete spectrum of T. atroviride developmental stages. (frontiersin.org)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)
  • The MMWR series of publications is published by the Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30333. (cdc.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classification scheme for major biological agents that terrorists could use to harm civilians categorizes ricin as a category B agent (ie, second highest priority) because it is moderately easy to disseminate while causing moderate-to-high morbidity in humans. (medscape.com)
  • Furthermore, the chapters provide numerous references to relevant current publications and regulatory guidelines from the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1984, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in consultation with experts from academic institutions, industry, and government, published the book Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories ('Guidelines')** (1). (cdc.gov)
  • Urine specimens are processed, stored, and shipped to the Division of Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for analysis. (cdc.gov)
  • STUDY SELECTION: The study team included relevant data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vision and Eye Health Surveillance System. (cdc.gov)
  • Yellow starthistle and Russian thistle (tumbleweed) are important alien weeds that have invaded over 20 million acres in the western U.S. Yellow starthistle is a spiny plant that interferes with grazing livestock and outdoors recreation, it is fatally poisonous to horses, and it outcompetes desirable vegetation. (usda.gov)
  • A cosmopolitan plant of European and North African origin is a prostrate, annual herb that bears and abundance of small yellow flowers and prickly spiny fruit. (ucr.edu)
  • As an agricultural plant its spiny fruit interferes with hand harvesting, injury livestock and contaminate seed, feed and wool (Johnson 1932). (ucr.edu)
  • The pliable, needlike seedlings, which may display stripes of purple or red, quickly grow into spiny, woody plants of three feet tall, though some may become significantly larger. (earth.com)
  • A living organism applied as an inundative biological control agent or augmentative biological control agent. (ufl.edu)
  • These predatory mites are used to help us control thrips populations in the greenhouse. (uvm.edu)
  • Late in the day when the sun is low in the sky, we release Amblyseius cucumeris by walking through the greenhouse, pouring out the mites onto various thrips-infested plants. (uvm.edu)
  • Encarsia formosa is a wasp that we release in our greenhouse to control whiteflies.They arrive as wasp pupae inside of parasitized whitefly pupae that are stuck to these cards.The adults hatch out once we hang these cards on plants that have whitefly problems. (uvm.edu)
  • These pesticide characteris-tics and concern about the effects of accumulation of organochlorines in human adipose tissue caused the banning or severe restriction of most of these agents in the United States and most of the world. (cdc.gov)
  • These new biological control agents should help reduce the populations of these two weeds to innocuous levels over extensive regions. (usda.gov)
  • A. cucumeris will continue to reproduce and control thrips populations as long as there is an alternative food source, like pollen, available when thrips polulations are low. (uvm.edu)
  • Many sites have experienced localized control, but because lilies are not extensively planted, it is hard to support a robust wasp population and the wasps are spreading slowly. (ecolandscaping.org)
  • Unlike environmental P. koreensis isolated from soil, which has been studied extensively for its role in promoting plant growth, pathogenic P. koreensis isolated from fish has been rarely reported. (bvsalud.org)
  • The book extensively covers the identification, assessment, and management of biological hazards, as well as special environments as they relate to biohazardous substances. (cdc.gov)
  • Natural enemies of mosquitoes Plants (Utricularia) Viruses Bacteria Fungi Protozoan parasites Nematodes (Romanomermis) Dragon fly adults Spiders Insects (Nepa sp. (nzdl.org)
  • Australia has a rich and diverse native flora containing a vast number of essential oil-bearing plants. (agrifutures.com.au)
  • Temporal and density dependent impacts of an invasive plant on pollinators and pollination services to a native plant. (montana.edu)
  • 2015. Native parasitoids associated with the biological control agents of Centaurea stoebe in Montana, USA. (montana.edu)
  • it is known that there are many insects and fungi which control the plant's spread in its native range, so prospects are hopeful (according to the Japanese Knotweed Alliance). (discoverlife.org)
  • It is a very common hardy horticultural plant t hat spread from gardens to mostly native vegetation in cool to warm temperate areas. (weeds.org.au)
  • Although minor concern was expressed over its potential detrimental effect on the native plants, this conflict of interest was resolved by weighing the potential benefits of biological control of Puncher vine against these potential losses. (ucr.edu)
  • Leucanthemum vulgare is a plant native to Europe and introduced into North America (Olson and Wallander in Sheley and Petroff 1999). (mt.gov)
  • A conservation status rank is not applicable (SNA) because the plant is an exotic (non-native) in Montana that is not a suitable target for conservation activities. (mt.gov)
  • Replace in landscape with native plants. (ufl.edu)
  • In Europe, as the approval of chemical herbicides including glyphosate, is facing severe restrictions if not an outright ban, there is a growing need to adopt more ecologically sound and sustainable strategies such as classical biological control (Sheppard et al. (springer.com)
  • 2012. Effects of an invasive plant transcend ecosystem boundaries through a dragonfly-mediated trophic pathway. (montana.edu)
  • He covered the efforts underway by scientists in the Northeast to use biological methods to control invasive plants and insects so that chemical pesticides and herbicides do not have to be used. (ecolandscaping.org)
  • For example, Japanese knotweed is not invasive in Japan, so CABI looked at what keeps it under control there. (ecolandscaping.org)
  • A recently identified weevil is showing promise controlling the invasive Mile-A-Minute Vine . (ecolandscaping.org)
  • Sicklepod is a category 3 restricted invasive plant under the Biosecurity Act 2014 . (qld.gov.au)
  • At a local level, each local government agency must have a biosecurity plan that covers invasive plants in its area. (qld.gov.au)
  • Japanese knotweed is an invasive rhizomatous perennial introduced to the UK from Japan between 1825 and 1841 as an ornamental plant and as cattle fodder. (gardenorganic.org.uk)
  • Our results show that germlings respond preferentially to compounds secreted by plant roots and T. atroviride itself than to compounds secreted by prey fungi. (frontiersin.org)
  • However, the survival of spores of plant pathogenic fungi through the digestive tract of workers has not been investigated. (researchgate.net)
  • The largest collections are vascular plants, but extensive collections also include algae, lichens, bryophytes and fungi. (lu.se)
  • These Guidelines are based on combinations of standard and special practices, equipment, and facilities recommended for use in working with infectious agents in various laboratory settings. (cdc.gov)
  • Another section contains specific agent summary statements, each consisting of a brief description of laboratory-associated infections, the nature of laboratory hazards, and recommended precautions for working with the causative agent. (cdc.gov)
  • NCHS and contract consultants use a structured quality assurance evaluation during unscheduled visits to evaluate both the quality of the laboratory work and the quality-control procedures. (cdc.gov)
  • Laboratory biosecurity describes the protection, control and accountability for valuable biological materials within laboratories as well as information related to these materials and dual-use research, in order to prevent their unauthorized access, loss, theft, misuse, diversion or intentional release. (who.int)
  • A petition requesting permission to release the blister mite (Aceria salsolae) to control Russian thistle (Salsola tragus) and its close relatives was submitted to TAG in December 2004. (usda.gov)
  • Successful biological control will provide self-perpetuating long-term management of these weeds, reduce the need to apply pesticides, and increase the productivity and utility of millions of acres in the western U.S. (usda.gov)
  • Use of biorational pesticides is usually considered to be chemical control not biological control. (ufl.edu)
  • Pesticides are biocidal agents used to control a wide vari-ety of organisms that pose a threat to health or compete for food or other materials (Table 74.1). (cdc.gov)
  • Some pesticides are inorganic chemicals, such as sulfur, and others are organic chemicals, such as the alkaloid nicotine derived from plants. (cdc.gov)
  • Plant infection begins at the roots, where the fungus is confronted with rhizosphere inhabiting bacteria. (frontiersin.org)
  • Herbicides used and application rates will depend on crop to be planted. (qld.gov.au)
  • There have been suggestions that Japanese knotweed could be grown as a renewable energy source if planted on derelict land or land of low agricultural value. (gardenorganic.org.uk)
  • The SEBIL Lab (Soil Biological Indicators Lab) developes biological indicators for environmental monitoring of agricultural, forest, and wetland soils. (uvm.edu)
  • Their importance is mostly based on their destructiveness to agricultural and ornamental plants. (scialert.net)
  • In fact, the seeds of related plants have been found in ancient agricultural excavations, suggesting that they have long availed themselves of human disturbance. (earth.com)
  • These are biological agents and toxins that have the potential to pose a severe threat to both human and animal health. (who.int)
  • Professor Casagrande expects that within two years the U.S. should be starting to use this biologic agent. (ecolandscaping.org)
  • Although ricin is not the ideal biologic warfare agent, it remains a threat. (medscape.com)
  • However, a considerably larger amount of ricin would be needed to produce the desired effect of a WMD than would be needed with a living replicating biologic agent or a chemical weapon. (medscape.com)
  • for example, Dawn Wooley, who is well known for her work on risk assessment of viral vectors, contributed to chapters on molecular agents and on risk assessment of biologic hazards. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition, temperature increase caused by global warming might exacerbate the effects of fungal plant disease ( Siebold and von Tiedemann, 2013 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • An integrated weed management approach to land management combines the use of complementary weed control methods such as grazing, herbicide application, land fallowing, and biological control. (fao.org)
  • however, control rapidly becomes more difficult with increasing plant age, requiring higher herbicide application rates. (qld.gov.au)
  • Ochna is a very hardy plant and often re-sprouts after mechanical and chemical control. (weeds.org.au)
  • The U.S. national civilian vulnerability to the deliberate use of biological and chemical agents has been highlighted by recognition of substantial biological weapons development programs and arsenals in foreign countries, attempts to acquire or possess biological agents by militants, and high-profile terrorist attacks. (cdc.gov)
  • A manifestation of a disease or an occurrence of an event which creates a potential for a disease as a result of exposure to or contamination by a chemical agent. (who.int)
  • Determination of mobilities of organic compounds in plant cuticles and correlation with molar volumes. (cdc.gov)
  • Even though ricin is sometimes referred to as a biological agent, it is a protein extracted from plant material and is not a living organism. (cdc.gov)
  • Ricin is a toxin contained in the seeds (beans) of the castor oil plant ( Ricinus communis ). (medscape.com)
  • Ricin is present in all parts of the plant but is most highly concentrated in the beans or seeds. (medscape.com)
  • Indeed, ricin has been used for homicidal purposes for centuries, although it has never been released or used in battle as a biological weapon of war. (medscape.com)
  • For patient education resources, see the First Aid and Injuries Center , as well as Biological Warfare , Ricin , and Personal Protective Equipment . (medscape.com)
  • During the second half of the 20th century, barley ( Hordeum vulgare ) has been widely used as a model organism for studying biological processes such as photosynthesis and chloroplast development. (mdpi.com)
  • The plant is found primarily in Asia and Africa but has taken root in all temperate and subtropical regions around the world and is widely grown as a garden ornamental. (medscape.com)
  • Maximizing the potential for successfully developing and deploying a biological control product begins with a carefully crafted microbial screening procedure, proceeds with developing mass production protocols that optimize product quantity and quality, and ends with devising a product formulation that preserves shelf-life, aids product delivery and enhances bioactivity. (usda.gov)
  • The biology of M . lypriformis is similar, only most oviposition occurs in the undersides of the central, older parts of the prostrate, spreading, mat-like plants (i.e., root crowns, primary branches, and stem bases). (ucr.edu)
  • Richard Casagrande, Professor of Entomology at the University of Rhode Island lectured on August 2, 2012 at Massachusetts Horticulture Society on "Biological Control of Invasives. (ecolandscaping.org)
  • A more detailed analyses on bacterial-fungal co-cultivation in narrow interaction channels of microfluidic devices revealed that the strongest inhibitory potential was found for Pseudomonas protegens CHA0, with its inhibitory potential depending on the presence of the GacS/GacA system controlling several bacterial metabolites. (frontiersin.org)
  • This interplay of bacterial effects on the pathogen can be beneficial to protect plants from infection, as shown with A . thaliana root experiments. (frontiersin.org)
  • In this study, we explored the bacterial community diversity and structure within rivers, treated and untreated wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) discharging into Lake Victoria. (bvsalud.org)
  • Manual weeding is still the dominant weed control method in many parts of Asia , since management options for weed control are limited under diverse agro-ecological conditions (Kim, 2000). (fao.org)
  • Follow-up control is a critical element in its management. (weeds.org.au)
  • Optimal release strategies for biological control agents: an application of stochastic dynamic programming to population management. (britishecologicalsociety.org)
  • Innovative weed control tools and management systems for problematic weeds, with a large focus on perennial weeds. (dal.ca)
  • Because it is a pretty flower, many landowners do not mow the plants as they appear in their lawns and fields [see also Management / Grazing Control]. (mt.gov)
  • A Manual for Research on Verticillium chlamydosporium , a Potential Biological Control Agent for Root-Knot Nematodes. (iobc-wprs.org)
  • This Many potential bioterrorism agents are notifiable dis- classification is based on public health experience, as eases in the Netherlands because of their infectious- well as Cold War era military experiments, in which ness and virulence. (cdc.gov)
  • An illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products that arises through transmission of such agent or products from an infected person, animal, or reservoir to a susceptible host, either directly or indirectly through an intermediate plant or animal host, vector, or the inanimate environment. (who.int)
  • A procedure whereby health measures are taken to eliminate an infectious or toxic agent or matter on the body surface of a human or animal, in or on a product prepared for consumption, or on other inanimate objects, including conveyances that may constitute a public health risk. (who.int)
  • It was also introduced as an ornamental plant (Olson and Wallander in Sheley and Petroff 1999). (mt.gov)
  • We have evaluated several prospective new agents of these two weeds and have requested permission to introduce two of them. (usda.gov)
  • Biological control uses a living agent to control weeds. (oregonstate.edu)
  • Together these findings suggest that chemotropic sensing during germling development is focused on plant association and colony network formation, while fungal prey recognition develops later in mature hyphae of fully differentiated mycelium. (frontiersin.org)
  • Furthermore, the morphological alterations of T. atroviride in response to plant host and fungal prey compounds suggest the presence of both positive and negative chemotropism. (frontiersin.org)
  • Release of large numbers of a biological control agent to supplement the small numbers already present, in expectation of a greatly increased effect. (ufl.edu)
  • Biological control agents are generally most effective when established in gullies and rocky knolls of hills. (fao.org)
  • Effective use of biological control agents (BCAs) is a potentially important component of sustainable agriculture. (apsnet.org)
  • 2000), and four new case-control studies: CNS (Cocco et al. (who.int)
  • The seed feeding weevil Microlarinus lareynii (Jacquelin deVal) and the stem and crown mining weevil M . lypriformis (Wollaston) were selected as the most promising candidates for use as biological control agents. (ucr.edu)
  • The ideal agent also is communicable from person to person and has no treatment or vaccine. (medscape.com)
  • Plant pathologists and microbiologists must discover and devise means to reduce disease losses and to save chocolate for the enthusiastic consumers of the world. (apsnet.org)
  • Attached to the updated HIV agent summary statement are the essential elements for BSL 2 and 3 laboratories, reproduced from the Guidelines (1) (see Addendum 1, p. 6). (cdc.gov)