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An Overview of Progress in Biological Control

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Biological Control of Rice Diseases

Part of the book series: Progress in Biological Control ((PIBC,volume 8))

We prepared a chapter on the biological control of rice diseases for an earlier book on Biological Control of Crop Diseases (Gnanamanickam, 2002). In the first chapter, we described the definitions and principles of biological control (Gnanamanickam, Vasudevan, Reddy, Kloepper, & Defago,2002). In Chapter 2, we documented the work on biological control of rice diseases (Vasudevan, Kavitha, Priyadarisini, Babujee, & Gnanamanickam, 2002). The descriptions provided then in those two chapters form the central theme for this book. In this overview, we look back and see how this method of rice disease management started and describe the advances that have been made. While the contributions made in biocontrol for some of the major diseases of rice may be significant, there has been very little progress made in applying biocontrol agents for minor diseases.

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Gnanamanickam, S.S. (2009). An Overview of Progress in Biological Control. In: Biological Control of Rice Diseases. Progress in Biological Control, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2465-7_3

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