Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Agriculture and Its Role in Maintaining Ecological Balance and Biodiversity

Table 5

Some important viruses and bacterial species with their target organisms [80, 81].

Virus	Target insect	Bacteria	Target insect/pest
Pox virus	Amsacta moorei	Bacillus thuringiensis	Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, Eutectona machaeralis, Helicoverpa armigera, Earias species, Plutella xylostella, Spodoptera litura, Achaeae janata, Hyblaea pured, Heliothis armigera
Cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (CPV)	Helicoverpa armigera	Agrobacterium adiobacter	Crown galls
Nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV)	Amsacta albistrig, Dasychira mendosa, Spodoptera litura, Helicoverpa armigera, Antheraea mylitta,Corcyra cephalonica, Spodoptera mauritia, Spilosoma obliqua, Plusia peponis, Pseudaletia separate, Plusia chalcites, and Pericallia ricini	Bacillus subtilis	Bacterial leaf blight (paddy), Sigatoka (banana)
Granulosis virus	Phthorimaea operculella, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, Pericallia ricini, Chilo infuscatellus, and Achaea Janata	Pseudomonas cepacia	Pathogenic fungi of soil
		Bacillus pumilus	Powdery mildews, rust, and downy
		Bacillus moritai	Diptera
		Pseudomonas chlororaphis	Fungal pathogen of barley and oats
		Pseudomonas fluorescens	Meloidogyne species