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Recent trends of modern bacterial insecticides for pest control practice in integrated crop management system

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Food security and safety are the major concern in ever expanding human population on the planet earth. Each and every year insect pests cause a serious damage in agricultural field that cost billions of dollars annually to farmers. The loss in term of productivity and high cost of chemical pesticides enhance the production cost. Irrespective use of chemical pesticides (such as Benzene hexachloride, Endosulfan, Aldicarb, and Fenobucarb) in agricultural field raised several types of environmental issues. Furthermore, continuous use of chemical pesticides creates a selective pressure which helps in emerging of resistance pest. These excess chemical pesticide residues also contaminate the environment including the soil and water. Therefore, the biological control of insect pest in the agricultural field gains more importance due to food safety and environment friendly nature. In this regard, bacterial insecticides offer better alternative to chemical pesticides. It not only helps to establish food security through fighting against insect pests but also ensure the food safety. In this review, we have categorized insect pests and the corresponding bacterial insecticides, and critically analyzed the importance and mode of action of bacterial pesticides. We also have summarized the use of biopesticides in integrated pest management system. We have tried to focus the future research area in this field for the upcoming scientists.

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    Pritam Chattopadhyay

  2. Department of Biotechnology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, 781014, India

    Pritam Chattopadhyay

  3. Department of Zoology, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, 731235, India

    Goutam Banerjee

  4. Center for Nature Conservation and Biosafety, Cuttack, Odisha, 754132, India

    Goutam Banerjee

  5. Department of Zoology, Dr. Bhupendranath Dutta Smriti Mahavidyalaya, Hatgobindapur, West Bengal, 713407, India

    Sayantan Mukherjee

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Chattopadhyay, P., Banerjee, G. & Mukherjee, S. Recent trends of modern bacterial insecticides for pest control practice in integrated crop management system. 3 Biotech 7, 60 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-017-0717-6

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