Current Research in Agriculture and Farming (CRAF)
Year : 2021, Volume : 2, Issue : 1
First page : (30) Last page : (39)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-7146.125
A Review on Nucleopolyhydroviruses (NPV) as Biological Control of Army Worm, Spodoptera litura
Zulnorain Sajid1*, Muhammad Ramzan2, Muhammad Mamoon Shafiq3, Muhammad Usman3, Ghulam Murtaza3, and Vikas Pareek4 1Department of Entomology, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan 2State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection,
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing, 100193, China 3Department of Entomology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad 4Head & Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, Gramin Mahila PG College Sikar, Rajasthan, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: ramzan.mnsua@gmail.com
Received: 17.11.2020 | Revised: 23.12.2020 | Accepted: 5.01.2021
ABSTRACT
The current review was written to give the detail information about Nucleopolyhydroviruses (NPV) that consider a major part of integrated pest management. The review of literature was collected from Google Scholar by giving different key words about Nucleopolyhydroviruses (NPV) against Spodoptera litura, previously published data on NPV and from well-known journal sites. Army worm, Spodoptera litura is a destructive pest of many agricultural and horticultural crops all over the world including Pakistan. Different management strategies are adopted to control this destructive pest in Pakistan. Among adopted strategies, insecticides are commonly used against this pest under laboratories as well as fields conditions. The excessive application of insecticides causes insecticides resistance and negative impact on environment resulting health problems (Ramzan et al., 2019c). The application of NPVs against insect pests is an alternative strategy to control pest population, reduce resistance issues, health problems and environmental pollution. The current review of literature shows that Nucleopolyhydroviruses has potential against insect pest population. The biological activity of ucleopolyhydroviruses should be tested against other lepidopteran insect pests that becoming primary pest of agricultural crops or invasive alien species especially Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda.
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Cite this article: Sajid, Z., Ramzan, M., Shafiq, M. M., Usman, M., Murtaza, G., & Pareek, V. (2021). A Review on Nucleopolyhydroviruses (NPV) as Biological Control of Army Worm, Spodoptera litura, Curr. Rese. Agri. Far. 2(1), 30-39. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-7146.125
