“…Encapsulating chitosan-microbes (chitosan-ATCC393 and chitosan-139S1) can protect against several environmental challenges (Li et al, 2011;Vejan et al, 2019). Moreover, the Harpinpss-chitosan, BMI-chitosan, B. thuringiensis-chitosan, B. cereus-chitosan, E. fergusonii-chitosan, B. thuringiensis-chitosan, and Pseudomonas-chitosan encapsulations tested on tomato, soybean, cotton, tobacco, bean, corn, and Hyaloptera peroni plants showed a reduction in egg-laying in female insects, thereby reducing the population and insect damage (Badawy and El-Aswad, 2012;Zeng et al, 2012;Chandrashekharaiah et al, 2015;Sahab et al, 2015;Badawy and Rabea, 2016;Kitherian, 2017;Ureña Saborío et al, 2017;Nadendla et al, 2018;De Oliveira et al, 2021). Based on the aforementioned findings, RNAi molecules expressed in microbes that can be encapsulated with chitosan are a viable technology and can be used as RNAibiopesticides in forest pest management (Figure 1).…”