Botanical Biopesticides – Where to Now?

Like Apollo 13 in the eponymously named 1995 film, crop protection has a problem, well actually, more than one problem. Unlike the Apollo disaster there is however, no quick fix on the horizon. The first, and for growers often the more serious problem, is that populations of insects and other pests, are developing resistance to pesticides; indeed there are almost 600 species of arthropod for which resistance to the most commonly used crop...