Preface, Danish Environmental Protection Agency

Entomophthorales on cereal aphids

Preface

This report contains the results of a project conducted at The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University with financial support from the Danish Environmental Protection Agency. The project was carried out from June 1996 to May 1999.

The steering committee consisted of:

Holger Pedersen, Danish Forest and Nature Agency (Chairman)

Bettina Jensen, Danish Forest and Nature Agency

Lars Monrad Hansen, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences

and Jørgen Eilenberg and Charlotte Nielsen, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University.

The authors wish to acknowledge the members of the steering committee for their support and collaboration, and Dorthe Britt Jensen, Kirsten Ploug and Dorte Lunn Jensen for technical assistance.

Furthermore, we thank Judith Pell (Rothamsted Experimental Station, England), Ann Hajek (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA), Richard Humber (United States Department of Agriculture, Ithaca, USA) and Urs Tuor, Ann Grundschoeber and Florian Freimoser (all from Eidgenössische Technische Hochscule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland) for collaboration on the project.