Genetically-engineered baculovirus pesticides and their environmental safety

H. Alan Wood; Yu Zailin

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Genetically-engineered baculovirus pesticides and their environmental safety

Informally Refereed

Authors:

H. Alan Wood, Yu Zailin

Year:

1991

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

IN: Gottschalk, Kurt W.; Twery, Mark J.; Smith, Shirley I., eds. Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency gypsy moth research review 1990; East Windsor, CT. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-146. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 57.

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Abstract

Baculoviruses such as the Lymantria dispar nuclear polyhedrosis virus (LdMNPV) are ecologically attractive alternatives to chemical insect pesticides but have a slow rate of control. To overcome this we have developed and are field testing an environmentally acceptable strategy which can be used for the introduction and expression of pesticide-enhancing genes by baculoviruses. The field release data will be used to construct environmentally-safe, viral pesticides which have improved pesticidal properties and which will not persist in nature.

Parent Publication

Proceedings, U. S. Department of Agriculture interagency gypsy moth research review 1990

Citation

Wood, H. Alan; Zailin, Yu. 1991. Genetically-engineered baculovirus pesticides and their environmental safety. IN: Gottschalk, Kurt W.; Twery, Mark J.; Smith, Shirley I., eds. Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency gypsy moth research review 1990; East Windsor, CT. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-146. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 57.