Making the best of research investment in pathogens control through biocontrol. How is research correlated with agricultural microbial biological control product availability?

Florența-Elena Helepciuc and Arpad Todor

PLOS Pathogens, 2023, vol. 19, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: While using microbial biological control products (MBCPs) to limit pathogens is one of the alternatives to the ecologically unsustainable use of synthetic pesticides that received attention, the last 2 decades have not brought the foreseen leap in developing systematic alternatives based on low-risk plant protection products (PPPs) across the globe. To explain this limited progress, we map the evolution of research on the most successful microbial biological control agents (MBCAs) worldwide. We also map the financing structure in the top funding countries and the European Union (EU) to discern the relevant trends. Available data for the European Union Member States allowed us to discover a country-level and EU-level correlation between strain-level research and biocontrol products’ approval based on those strains.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011071

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