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Microbial Biopesticides Use in Insect-Pest Management: An Overview

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Insect, pathogens, weeds, and invertebrates as pests cause significant crop losses worldwide and act as a barrier in achieving the aim of global food security and reduction in poverty, as in terms of food security the annual crop losses due to pests correspond to a huge amount of food supply which can otherwise feed millions of people. The use of synthetic pesticides for crop protection plays a major role in insect-pest management but simultaneously poses various challenges; hence, for sustainable agriculture, we need to chalk out alternative methodologies to meet the need of crop protection. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) helps in Sustainable Intensification by producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts and at the same time increasing contributions to natural capital and the flow of environmental services by using various methods and techniques. Among which, one of the major methods is Microbial Control, in which pathogens are exploited for biological control of insect pests through introductory or inundate applications. Microbial pathogens of insects are intensively investigated to develop environment friendly pest management strategies in agriculture. Entomopathogenic viruses, bacteria, and fungi, as biopesticides are currently used as an alternative to traditional insecticides which overcome the harmful effect of the chemicals on non-target organism. This chapter reviews the insecticidal properties of microbes, their potential utility, recent advancement, and case studies in insect-pest management.

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Sharma, P., Gaur, N. (2021). Microbial Biopesticides Use in Insect-Pest Management: An Overview. In: Kaushal, M., Prasad, R. (eds) Microbial Biotechnology in Crop Protection. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0049-4_5

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