Nematode Pathogenesis of Insects and Other Pests

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Biological and Environmental Factors Affecting Entomopathogenic Nematodes as Biological Control Agents

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Diversity, Biology and Evolutionary Relationships

      • S. Patricia Stock

      Pages 3-27

   3. Improvement of Entomopathogenic Nematodes: A Genetic Approach

      • Itamar Glazer

      Pages 29-55

   4. Behaviour and Population Dynamics of Entomopathogenic Nematodes Following Application

      • Christine T. Griffin

      Pages 57-95

   5. Entomopathogenic Nematodes in the Soil Environment: Distributions, Interactions and the Influence of Biotic and Abiotic Factors

      • Robin J. Stuart, Mary E. Barbercheck, Parwinder S. Grewal

      Pages 97-137

   6. Trophic Relationships of Entomopathogenic Nematodes in Agricultural Habitats

      • Edwin E. Lewis, Selcuk Hazir, Amanda Hodson, Baris Gulcu

      Pages 139-163

   7. Utilizing Persistent Entomopathogenic Nematodes in a Conservation or a More Classical Biological Control Approach

      • Elson J. Shields

      Pages 165-184

3. Advances on Entomopathogenic Nematodes Production and Release

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. Prospects in the Application Technology and Formulation of Entomopathogenic Nematodes for Biological Control of Insect Pests

      • Ivan Hiltpold

      Pages 187-205

   3. Insect Cadaver Applications: Pros and Cons

      • Claudia Dolinski, David Shapiro-Ilan, Edwin E. Lewis

      Pages 207-229

   4. Entomopathogenic Nematode Application Technology

      • David Shapiro-Ilan, Claudia Dolinski

      Pages 231-254

   5. Entomopathogenic Nematode Production and Application: Regulation, Ecological Impact and Non–target Effects

      • Ana Piedra-Buena, Javier López-Cepero, Raquel Campos-Herrera

      Pages 255-282

4. Entomopathogenic Nematode Exploitation: Case-Studies in Crop Protection in Different Crops and Countries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 283-283

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   2. New York Case Study: Biological Control of Otiorhynchus ligustici with Native Persistent Entomopathogenic Nematodes Using a More Classical Approach

      • Elson J. Shields, Antonio M. Testa

      Pages 285-307

   3. Entomopathogenic Nematodes in Turfgrass: Ecology and Management of Important Insect Pests in North America

      • Albrecht M. Koppenhöfer, Olga S. Kostromytska, Benjamin A. McGraw, Lemma Ebssa

      Pages 309-327

   4. It Takes a Village: Entomopathogenic Nematode Community Structure and Conservation Biological Control in Florida (U.S.) Orchards

      • Raquel Campos-Herrera, Fahiem E. El-Borai, Larry W. Duncan

      Pages 329-351

   5. Entompathogenic Nematodes in Cuba: From Laboratories to Popular Biological Control Agents for Pest Management in a Developing Country

      • Mayra G. Rodríguez Hernández

      Pages 353-374

   6. Entomopathogenic Nematodes in Tropical Agriculture: Current Uses and Their Future in Venezuela

      • Ernesto San-Blas, Carolina Rosales, Ángel Torres

      Pages 375-402

   7. Orchard Applications of Entomopathogenic Nematodes in Spain

      • Fernando García del Pino, Ana Morton

      Pages 403-419

Achieving a sustainable agriculture requires integrating advances in multiples disciplines, covering both fundamental and applied research in a common objective: enhancing crop health for better productions. This first volume of the Series “Sustainability in plant and crop protection” presents a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary compendium about the recent achievements in the use of entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) as biological control in a global scale. The volume is organized in a first section discussing the last discoveries on the biology and ecology of the EPN, a second section covering the advances on the EPN productions and release, and a third section with multiples case-studies in which the concepts and ideas on the two previous sections are integrated and discussed. An essential tool for researchers and professionals working to advance in the sustainable use of our resources.

• Biological Control
• Insects
• Nematodes
• Pest Management
• Sustainability
• Entomology

• University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

  Raquel Campos-Herrera

Dr Raquel Campos-Herrera is working on the ecology and biology of entomopathogenic nematodes since her PhD program in 2001, developed in the Spanish Council of Research (CSIC)-Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She received her PhD in 2006 with the Thesis entitled “The entomopathogenic nematodes from La Rioja and their symbiotic bacteria”, which was awarded with the European Mention and the Extraordinary Award as the best PhD in Zoology, Ecology and Botany in the University Complutense from Madrid. She has self-funded her whole career as young scientist, obtaining different fellowships and grants to support her PhD program (Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, and post-graduate CSIC program) and the postdoctoral research at the University of Florida (USA) and Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias (ICA-CSIC) (Ramón Areces Foundation and Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development). Recently, she joined the laboratory of Fundamental and Applied Research in Chemical Ecology (University of Neuchâtel) in October 2013. Here she develops the project “Applications of entomopathogenic nematodes for a sustainable control of soil insect pests”, granted by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of the NRP68 “Sustainable use of Soil as a Resource”, appointed until March 2016. During her development as young researcher, she has participated in 11 national and european grants and was PI in two regional grants to study the entomopathogenic nematode biology and ecology for native Spanish isolates.

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