Plant pathogens as biocontrol agents for Cirsium arvense : an answer to Müller and Nentwig
- Recently, Müller and Nentwig (2011) reviewed the plant pathogens that have been considered for biological control of the weed Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. (Canada thistle, Californian thistle, creeping thistle), and concluded that the prospects have been largely overestimated. The premise of their conclusion is that no bioherbicide products have achieved marketability, which they surmise is due to lack of host specificity, effectiveness, and issues with application. While it is true that no microbial products have achieved marketability for this weed, we believe their reasoning for this is erroneous, and likely due to lack of distinction between two biocontrol approaches, specifically classical biocontrol, and innundative biocontrol (often referred to as the biopesticide approach). These two different types of biocontrol have different goals, and are applied in different ways.
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| Author: | Michael G. Cripps, Graeme W. Bourdôt, Karen L. Bailey |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-322478 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.13.3137 |
| ISSN: | 1314-2488 |
| Parent Title (English): | NeoBiota |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/10/31 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2012/05/16 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/10/31 |
| Issue: | 13 |
| Page Number: | 9 |
| First Page: | 31 |
| Last Page: | 39 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 363120319 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 58 Pflanzen (Botanik) / 580 Pflanzen (Botanik) |
| Sammlungen: | Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | NeoBiota / NeoBiota 13 |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-321070 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |
