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Historically, <jats:italic>N.\u2009zhejiangensis<\/jats:italic> management has relied heavily on synthetic chemicals. To reduce the reliance on chemical control, we previously isolated a nucleopolyhedrovirus, NezhNPV, from deceased <jats:italic>N.\u2009zhejiangensis<\/jats:italic> larvae. A subsequent pathogenicity assay confirmed its high virulence in a laboratory setting.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title><jats:p>In order to comprehensively examine the hypothesis that NezhNPV is an effective new biocontrol agent for <jats:italic>N.\u2009zhejiangensis<\/jats:italic>, we carried out a field test in Beijing, China, and characterized NezhNPV morphologically by electron microscopy and genetically by genome sequencing. Our field trials showed that NezhNPV was effective in controlling <jats:italic>N.\u2009zhejiangensis<\/jats:italic> in a naturally infested Himalayan blue pine forest. The occlusion bodies of NezhNPV consist of irregular polyhedra that occlude rod\u2010shaped enveloped virions with a single nucleocapsid per virion. The NezhNPV genome is 80\u2009637\u2009bp in length, and contains 90 open reading frames, including 38 core, eight lepidopteran baculovirus, 34 hymenopteran baculovirus and 10 unique baculovirus genes, representing the smallest known genome among baculoviruses. The combined results based on phylogenetic analyses, Kimura\u20102\u2010parameter distances and biological characteristics indicate that NezhNPV is a novel gammabaculovirus and candidate for species status with the provisional name <jats:italic>Gammabaculovirus nezhejiangensis<\/jats:italic>. NezhNPV is highly collinear with other gammabaculoviruses and contains nonsyntenic regions with an inversion and rearrangement between <jats:italic>orf3<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>orf35<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>CONCLUSION<\/jats:title><jats:p>The combined results from our field trials, coupled with morphological and genomic characterization clearly demonstrate the bioactivity of NezhNPV. 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