MASTER - Integrating biological control within IPM for winter oilseed Europe

摘要

MASTER is the acronym for MAnagement STrategies for European Rape pests, an EU-funded project (QLK5 -CT-2001-01447). It seeks to develop economically-viable, environmentally-acceptable management strategies for six pests of winter oilseed rape in Europe by integrating biological control, using key parasitoids, predators and pathogens, within IPM. Key components of the strategies are reviewed. MASTER is the acronym for MAnagement STrategies for European Rape pests, the short title for the EU-funded project: 'Integrated pest management strategies incorporating biological control for European oilseed rape pests' (QLK5-CT-2001-01447). The project started in December 2001 and is of four and a half years' duration. The project consortium has partners fromsix EU countries, namely, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Poland, Sweden and the UK. The main objective of the project is to construct, develop, evaluate and promote an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) System for the European winter oilseed rape crop that integrates and maximises biological control of six target pests by their key natural enemies, while minimising pesticide use.