New and Future Development in Biopesticide Research: Biotechnological Exploration

A.      Introduction

1.      Biopesticides in sustainable agriculture: current status and future prospects

 B.      Microbial biopesticide

2.      Current status and future prospective of Entomopathogenic Fungi: A Potential source of Biopesticides.

3.      Bacillus and its application as biopesticides : Current state and perspectives

4.      Entomopathogenic Bacteria (Excluding Bt) in Insect Pest Management: Scope and their exploitation

5.      Exploration of insect virus associated with pest management

6.      Baculovirus based biopesticides: Current status and future trends

7.      Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs): A green strategy for management of insect-pests of crops

8.      Insect microbiota and host immunity: An emerging target for pest control9.      Improving insect control using genetically modified entomopathogens.



 

C.      Plant based biopesticides10.  Plant secondary metabolites : emerging trend in insect pest control



11.  Neem and its role as biopesticide: : current state and perspectives

 

 D.      Natural products/ enemies against pests

12.  Natural products for agricultural insect and pest control

13.  Egg Parasitoid: a novel resource in pest management

 

E.      

Dr. Surajit De Mandal, is a postdoctoral fellow at the College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P. R. China. He has eight years of research experience and published many research articles in international journals. He also acts as an editorial board member/ reviewer for various international journals. His field of interest includes microbial diversity and metagenomics, molecular phylogeny, bioinformatics, and microbial control of insect pests. He is presently working on microbial community analysis using next-generation sequencing methods.

Dr. Fengliang Jin is a Professor in the Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642 P.R.China. His major research interest is on the role of non-coding RNAs in the regulation of insect immune signal transduction, exploring the interaction mechanism of insects to entomopathogens using next generation sequencing and bioinformatic analysis and RNAi-based functional analysis of immune-related genes and their role in the regulation of antimicrobial peptides of insects. Prof. Jin served as a Principal Investigator for several research projects related to the development of Biopesticide from various agencies. He has several patents, scientific articles and presently serving as a reviewer and editor in many international journals.

Dr. S. Karthi is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow (UGC-DSKPDF, New Delhi) at Centre for Environmental Sciences, Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India. He also worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow (DST-SERB, N-PDF) at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India, and Assistant Professor in Rangasamy College of Arts and Science, India. He has published several high-quality research articles and served as a reviewer for many journals. Presently he is working on the Natural products for Mosquito and Disease Control.