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Cornell entomologist Elson Shields, research support specialist Antonio Testa, and colleagues have developed a successful biocontrol system using native nematodes for managing ASB.

The Russian group will meet with Kevin Putnam, a New York/New England dairy specialist with DuPont Pioneer, a seed producer coordinating the tour; receive a lecture from Shields; and visit dairy farms where Shields' biocontrol system has successfully restored alfalfa production.

Chilean freshwater mussels (Diplodon chilensis) have been successfully used as a biocontrol system in salmon farming eutrophication (Soto and Mena 1999).

"Once you set up this biocontrol system inside a cell, it has to do its job autonomously, sort of like a self-driving car," said Pablo A. Iglesias, principal investigator on the project.

A five-member team from the university's Whiting School of Engineering and its School of Medicine recently received a four-year, $5.7 million federal contract to devise a prototype biocontrol system that can dispatch single-cell fighters to track down and engulf specific pathogens, rendering them harmless.

Information about the interactions between yeast biocontrol agents, pathogens, and plant hosts (mainly harvested fruit) is needed to better understand biochemical and molecular processes involved in the biocontrol system [ 10, 15].

Initially, the EPN biocontrol systems were developed to protect alfalfa crops from the destructive snout beetle.

But Anita K. Kressner, a vice president of the kit maker BioControl Systems, said only a few food companies were using the kits.

Biocontrol demonstration was implemented at the Schenectady County Horticulture Education Center (SCHEC) where educational workshops were held to explain what the biocontrol agents are, the packaging they arrive in, understand the complexity of biocontrol systems, and ask questions.

The identification of M. fructicola genes associated with biocontrol interactions will form the basis of understanding the biology of biocontrol systems and mechanisms associated with effective biocontrol agents.

Activation of stress-related genes in yeast biocontrol agents induced in response to the pathogen or plant host has been observed in several biocontrol systems [ 14, 16, 17].