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Some pesticidal and other beneficial organisms have been very effective in the laboratory only to fail at some stage in the field, even after development of a product for marketing. Common causes of this demise are poor stability of the product during storage prior to application, too little active material actually reaching the field target, and rapid degradation of the active material on the target. Formulation plays a vital role in helping to solve these problems and in making an organism effective in practice. However, this must be achieved in a cost-effective manner if the final product is to survive commercially.
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Burges, H.D., Jones, K.A. (1998). Introduction. In: Burges, H.D. (eds) Formulation of Microbial Biopesticides. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4926-6_1
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