IOBC, International Organization for Biological Control of Noxious Animals and Plants



IOBC-Global Working Groups:

Biological Control and Management of Parthenium Weed

Convenors:

Kunjithapatham Dhileepan, Email: Kunjithapatham.Dhileepan@deedi.qld.gov.au

Wondi Mersie, Email: wmersie@vsu.edu

Rangaswamy Muniappan, Email: ipm-dir@vt.edu or rmuni@vt.edu

Aim:

The general aim of this working group is to promote the use of sustainable, environmentally safe, economically feasible, and socially acceptable control methods, including biological control, of Parthenium hysterophorus L. (Asteraceae) in the invasive plant’s introduced range (Africa, Asia, and Australia).

First Meeting:

Workshop on Biological Control and Management of Parthenium, Nairobi, Kenya, October 2010. This will be a joint workshop with the Global Working Group of Biological Control of Chromolaena Weed.