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A formal identification will place the fun- gal isolate within a taxonomic rank, initially at species level. Many fungal species ...

uct, so it is not possible to implement a sin- gle set of standardized procedures to cover all. However, within any given produc ...

cate the problem. Furthermore, results from contamination checks throughout the course of production can be used to show that ha ...

mination of the conidia. Using a dilute sus- pension of conidia plated on to a nutritive agar medium, viable and non-viable spor ...

dry conditions. Applying equations and experimental protocols used for estimating seed longevity (Ellis, 1988; Roberts and Ellis ...

However, the issue of detecting potential human pathogens in the final product requires further investigation. Viability Greate ...

turing agents, spreaders, stickers and stabi- lizing agents (Burges, 1998). Additives such as wetting agents and gustatory stimu ...

The use of field-collected insects does have significant potential drawbacks. It can be diffi- cult for untrained collectors to ...

should also be kept and reviewed on a monthly basis. Even so, large-scale produc- tion of larvae with synchronized predictable g ...

In BV-infected larvae harvested dead under high ambient temperatures (26°C), bacteria multiply rapidly after larval death and co ...

both as minimum % w/w TP and as OB g^1 dry powder or OB ml^1 for liquid formula- tions, or OB equivalents for formulated produ ...

pathogens and of consistent quality. However, the issues surrounding the mainte- nance of high-quality products based on these o ...

Caetano-Anolles, G., Bassam, B.J. and Gresshoff, P.M. (1991) DNA amplification fingerprinting using very short arbitrary oligonu ...

Ignoffo, C.M. and Couch, T.L. (1981) The nuclear polyhedrosis virus of Heliothisspecies as a microbial insecticide. In: Burges, ...

Moore, R.F., Odell, T.M. and Calkins (1985) Quality assessment in laboratory reared insects. In: Singh, P. and Moore, R.F. (eds) ...

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19 Guidelines for Quality Control of Commercially Produced Natural Enemies J.C. van Lenteren,^1 A. Hale,^2 J.N. Klapwijk,^3 J. v ...

maintenance, it was possible to improve the performance of the strain and achieve the efficiency limit of at least 75% parasitis ...

Since the sting stock is reared under near- natural conditions we do not expect deterioration. However, once a year we assess in ...

can be used by distributors, pest-manage- ment advisory personnel and farmers. The standard elements of the quality control guid ...