Baculoviruses are known to regulate many insect populations in nature. Their host-
specificity is very high, usually restricted to a single or a few closely related insect species …

The market for biological control of insect pests in the world and in Brazil has grown in
recent years due to the unwanted ecological and human health impacts of chemical …

The alphabaculovirus Anticarsia gemmatalis multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (AgMNPV) is
the world's most successful viral bioinsecticide. Through the 1980s and 1990s, this virus was …

The mulberry silkworm, Bombyx mori (L.), is a model organism of lepidopteran insects with
high economic importance. The viral diseases of the silkworm caused by Bombyx mori …

A new isolate of the Spodoptera frugiperda granulovirus, SfGV ARG, was completely
sequenced and analyzed. The SfGV ARG genome is 139,812 bp long and encodes 151 …

Cnaphalocrocis medinalis granulovirus (CnmeGV), belonging to Betabaculovirus
cnamedinalis, can infect the rice pest, the rice leaf roller. In 1979, a CnmeGV isolate …

We report the genomic analysis of a novel alphabaculovirus, Mythimna sequax
nucleopolyhedrovirus isolate CNPSo-98 (MyseNPV-CNPSo-98), obtained from cadavers of …

Abstract The Southern armyworm Spodoptera eridania (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is native to
the American tropics and a polyphagous pest of several crops. Here we characterized a …

Silk is an economically and culturally important product of Thailand that is threatened by the
outbreaks of the Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) in silkworm rearings. BmNPV …

The covering of soil surface, for creating suitable conditions for the growth of plants, either by
organic or inorganic material is termed mulching. Mulching is found effective in soil and …