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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Soja.
Data corrente: | 09/01/2006
Data da última atualização: | 17/01/2006
Autoria: | MOSCARDI, F.; SANTOS, B.
Título: | Implementation of the largest worldwide laboratory production of a baculovirus: the case of the nucleopolyhedrovirus of Anticarsia gemmatalis (Lep.: Noctuidae) in Brazil.
Ano de publicação: | 2005
Fonte/Imprenta: | In: ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY, 38., 2005. Anchorage. Program and abstracts. Anchorage: SIP, 2005. p. 82.
Idioma: | Inglês
Notas: | Poster / Microbial Control MC-14.
Conteúdo: | The nucleopolyhedrovirus of A. gemmatalis (AgMNPV) is being employed annually on about 2.0 million ha of soybean in Brazil. Up to 2003 all production were made in the field for processing and formulation by private companies. Improvements on laboratory production procedures, presented in SIP 2003, resulted in a final product of much better quality and at a cost competitive with those of chemical insecticides. The procedures were further adjusted through the implementation in one of the companies (COODETEC) of a "Pilot Laboratory" for AgMNPV production (presented in SIP 2004). We now report the implementation of laboratory facilities at COODETEC for commercial production of the AgMNPV. These were inaugurated in November/2004 and consist of two independent laboratories: one for continuous insect production (700 m2) and another for virus production (750 m2). In the former, the insects are reared up adults, for egg collection and rearing the larvae up to the fourth instar in 500-ml cardboard cups (avg. of 300-350 larvae/cup). Daily, 3% of these larvae are placed in plastic boxes (30x35x12cm) containing diet and vermiculite for obtaining pupae to maintain the colony. The remaining larvae (97%) are transfered to the virus production laboratory, where they are placed in plastic boxes containing AgMNPV contaminated diet. Dead larvae are collected, processed and formulated as a bioinsecticide (COOPERVIRUS PM). COODETEC is expanding its AgMNPV production to reach its maximum capacity, which will involve 45 employees and inoculation of 600,000 larvae/day to produce virus to treat aproximately 1.4 million hectares ofsoybean/year.
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