Development of Metarhizium-Based Biopesticides for Sugarcane Pest Management Current Progress and Future prospects

摘要

The fungus Metarhizium anisopliae is a naturally-occurring pathogen of soil insects in Australia. Metarhizium can be used as a biopesticide by mass-producing spores on rice and applying the resulting product into canefields. Numbers of greyback canegrub in plant cane have been consistently reduced by more than 50