This Special Issue of Biocontrol Science and Technology contains 25 papers that have resulted from a 5-year cooperative research project sponsored by the joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria, on the use of radiation in biological control.
In this Special Issue are presented numerous innovative ways to apply radiation technology to biological control, from expanding the period of host suitability for parasitoids, increasing shelf life, studying host_parasitoid physiological interactions, and stimulating reproduction, to eliminating the risk of shipping fertile non-indigenous hosts/prey among others.
