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Industrial Applications pp 367–374Cite as

Genetic Improvement of Bioherbicides

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Plant pathogenic fungi and bacteria potentially provide an ecologically sound means of suppressing weeds in agricultural and natural environments. Traditionally, the challenge of biological control has been to find naturally occurring plant pathogens capable of controlling a weed population (Charudattan 1991; Auld and Morin 1995). In most cases, a plant disease causes only minimal damage to a plant population. However, in a few cases like Dutch elm disease and the Great Potato Famine, the impact of the plant pathogen on its host plant has been devastating. Over the past 50 years, biocontrol researchers have searched for plant pathogens that are capable of inflicting these levels of damage on weed populations. However, few pathogens have proven efficacious and even fewer have been commercialized.

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  1. Department of Plant Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, 59717, USA

    A. L. Pilgeram, L. D. Carsten & D. C. Sands

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Pilgeram, A.L., Carsten, L.D., Sands, D.C. (2002). Genetic Improvement of Bioherbicides. In: Osiewacz, H.D. (eds) Industrial Applications. The Mycota, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10378-4_19

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