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Article Dans Une Revue (Article De Synthèse) Frontiers in Plant Science Année : 2015

Is the efficacy of biological control against plant diseases likely to be more durable than that of chemical pesticides?

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The durability of a control method for plant protection is defined as the persistence of its efficacy in space and time. It depends on (i) the selection pressure exerted by it on populations of plant pathogens and (ii) on the capacity of these pathogens to adapt to the control method. Erosion of effectiveness of conventional plant protection methods has been widely studied in the past. For example, apparition of resistance to chemical pesticides in plant pathogens or pests has been extensively documented. The durability of biological control has often been assumed to be higher than that of chemical control. Results concerning pest management in agricultural systems have shown that this assumption may not always be justified. Resistance of various pests to one or several toxins of Bacillus thuringiensis and apparition of resistance of the codling moth Cydia pomonella to the C. pomonella granulovirus have, for example, been described. In contrast with the situation for pests, the durability of biological control of plant diseases has hardly been studied and no scientific reports proving the loss of efficiency of biological control agents against plant pathogens in practice has been published so far. Knowledge concerning the possible erosion of effectiveness of biological control is essential to ensure a durable efficacy of biological control agents on target plant pathogens. This knowledge will result in identifying risk factors that can foster the selection of strains of plant pathogens resistant to biological control agents. It will also result in identifying types of biological control agents with lower risk of efficacy loss, i.e., modes of action of biological control agents that does not favor the selection of resistant isolates in natural populations of plant pathogens. An analysis of the scientific literature was then conducted to assess the potential for plant pathogens to become resistant to biological control agents.
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hal-02640538 , version 1 (28-05-2020)

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Marc Bardin, Sakhr Ajouz, Morgane Comby, Miguel Lopez-Ferber, Benoit Graillot, et al.. Is the efficacy of biological control against plant diseases likely to be more durable than that of chemical pesticides?. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2015, 6, pp.566. ⟨10.3389/fpls.2015.00566⟩. ⟨hal-02640538⟩
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