Bio-Pesticides

Bio-Pesticides

Bio-Pesticides
A fascinating and economically important area of applied microbial ecology is the biological control of pests and disease-causing agents using microorganisms. Biological control using microorganisms to initiate disease in pest populations has the potential of reducing agricultural reliance on chemical pesticides.

The negative interactions (amensalism, predation, and parasitism) among microbial populations and between microbes and higher organisms have always formed a natural basis for the biological control of pests and pathogens, and biological control methods take advantage of those relationships.

Biological methods to control populations of disease causing organisms and pests are based on modification of host and or vector population, modification of reservoirs of pathogens, and the direct use of microbial pathogens and predators. Biotechnology may improve approaches for controlling pest and disease causing populations.

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