Translating host-specificity test results into the real world: The need to harmonize the yin and yang of current testing procedures

• Published in: Biological control Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 208 - 214
• Main Author: Briese, D.T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.12.2005
• Subjects: Biological control; biological control agents; host plants; host range; host specificity; Host-specificity testing; nontarget organisms; Risk assessment; Test plant selection; testing; weed control; Test plant selection; Biological control; Risk assessment; Host-specificity testing

In its modern era, the discipline of biological control can be perceived as being subject to a series of tensions due to differences in philosophy, different needs, and different practices; these include the view that biological control is environmentally friendly and desirable vs. the view that any...