Insect Pest Management: Field and Protected Crops

✍ Scribed by A. R. Horowitz, I. Ishaaya (auth.), Professor Dr. A. Rami Horowitz, Professor Dr. Isaac Ishaaya (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 359
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book deals with new approaches to insect pest management in field and protected crops using ecologically sound and innovative techniques.

It starts with an overview on general topics in pest management, i.e., the efficacy and selectivity of new biorational insecticides such as insect growth regulators, avermectins, the neonicotinoid insecticides, and the ecology of insect pests and relevance to pest management along with new insights into cultural and physical control in greenhouses and field crops. Other chapters are dedicated to transgenic crops, their usefulness and the problems which have emerged during their implementation. Advances in pest management of important crops such as cotton -- in developed and less developed countries -- corn, oilseed rape and various vegetables are dealt with in detail.

The authors of the various chapters have a wealth of experience and are considered world leaders specializing in various aspects of pest management programs.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXI
Biorational Insecticides — Mechanisms, Selectivity and Importance in Pest Management....Pages 1-28
New Applications for Neonicotinoid Insecticides Using Imidacloprid as an Example....Pages 29-44
The Spatial Dimension in the Ecology of Insect Pests and Its Relevance to Pest Management....Pages 45-63
Resistance Management for Sustainable Use of Bacillus thuringiensis Crops in Integrated Pest Management....Pages 65-95
Implementing Integrated Pest Management in Australian Cotton....Pages 97-118
Area-Wide Management of Insects Infesting Cotton....Pages 119-140
Integrated Pest Management for Insect Pests of Cotton in Less Developed Countries....Pages 141-179
Advances in Insect Pest Management of Oilseed Rape in Europe....Pages 181-208
Recent Advances and Developments in Corn Integrated Pest Managment....Pages 209-245
Advances in United States Sweet Corn and Snap Bean Insect Pest Management....Pages 247-278
Integrated Pest Management in Vegetables and Ornamentals in the Western United States....Pages 279-299
Physical Control in Greenhouses and Field Crops....Pages 301-318
Ultraviolet-Absorbing Barriers, an Efficient Integrated Pest Management Tool to Protect Greenhouses from Insects and Virus Diseases....Pages 319-335
Back Matter....Pages 337-344

✦ Subjects

Agriculture; Biochemistry, general; Plant Genetics & Genomics; Plant Pathology; Environmental Management