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1 What are Microbial-based Biopesticides?

María E. Morán-Diez and Travis R. Glare

Part I: Screening, Isolation and Identification of Potential Biological Control Agents

2. Isolation and Mass Production of Trichoderma

Artemio Mendoza-Mendoza, Annabel Clouston, Jin-Hua Li, Maria Fernanda Nieto-Jacobo, Nicholas Cummings, Johanna Steyaert, and Robert Hill

Part II: Evaluating Mode of Action of Microorganisms

3. Methods for the Evaluation of the Bioactivity and Biocontrol Potential of Species of Trichoderma

Johanna Steyaert, Emily Hicks, Janaki Kandula, Diwakar Kandula, Hossein Alizadeh, Mark Braithwaite, Jessica Yardley, and Artemio Mendoza-Mendoza

Part III: Mass Production and Formulations: Bacteria

4. Purification of the Yersinia Entomophaga Yen-TC Toxin Complex using Size Exclusion Chromatography

Sandra A. Jones and Mark R. H. Hurst

5. Coated Solid Substrate Microbe Formulations: Pseudomonas spp. and zeolite

Craig R. Bunt, Sally Price, John Hampton, and Scott Stelting

Part IV: Mass Production and Formulations: Fungi

6. Production of Conidia by the Fungus Metarhizium Anisopliae using Solid-state Fermentation

Octavio Loera-Corral, Javier Porcayo-Loza, Roberto Montesinos-Matias, and Ernesto Favela-Torres

7. Liquid Culture Production of Fungal Microsclerotia

Mark A. Jackson and Angela R. Payne

Lizzy A. Mwamburi

Part V: Mass Production and Formulations: Viruses

9. Cell Culture for Production of Insecticidal Viruses

Steven Reid, Leslie C. L. Chan, Leila Matindoost, Charlotte Pushparajan, and Gabriel Visnovsky

10. Formulation of Nematodes

Arne Peters

11. In vivo Production of Entomopathogenic Nematodes

David I. Shapiro-Ilan, Juan A. Morales-Ramos, and M. Guadalupe Rojas

Part VII: Monitoring of Applied Microbes

12. Detection and Quantification of the Entomopathogenic Fungal Endophyte Beauveria Bassiana in Plants by Nested and Quantitative PCR

13 Plant Tissue Preparation for the Detection of an Endophytic Fungus in Planta

Aimee C. McKinnon

VIII: Quality Control, Safety, and Registration

14. Measuring Chitinase and Protease Activity in Fungal Cultures

Peter Cheong

Judith Taibon and Hermann Strasser

16. Development of Biopesticides and Future Opportunities

Travis R. Glare, Roma L. Gwynn, and Maria E. Moran-Diez