Baculovirology has been studied on the African continent for development of insect virus-based biopesticides and, to a much lesser extent, vaccine production and delivery, since 1960s. In this review, we focus only baculoviruses as agricultural pests in Africa. At least 11 species baculovirus have discovered or continent, some with several distinct isolates, objective most cases being biopestic...

Phthorimaea operculella is one of the most important pests causing damage to stored potatoes. In this work, effect temperature (at 10, 20 and 30 °C) on predation pest eggs by Blattisocius tarsalis was studied in laboratory. addition, three predatory release rates two densities under microcosm conditions. The results showed that B. maintains its capacity at low temperatures (10 °C), obtaining an...

A gene that encodes a homologue to baculoviral p74, an envelope-associated viral structural protein, has been identified and sequenced on the genome of Choristoneura fumiferana granulovirus (ChfuGV). A part of the ChfuGV p74 gene was located on an 8.9 kb BamHI subgenomic fragment using different sets of degenerated primers. These were designed using the results of the protein sequencing of a ma...