Integrated Pest Management (eBook, PDF)

Volume 1: Innovation-Development Process
Redaktion: Peshin, Rajinder; Dhawan, Ashok K.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book covers the recognition of the problems of dysfunctional and indirect economic and environmental consequences of pesticide use in agriculture, through research and development of different IPM tactics. Written by an interdisciplinary team of experts from entomology, plant pathology, plant breeding, plant physiology, biochemistry, and extension education covering externalities of pesticide use, pest outbreaks, threshold theory, host plant resistance, crop plant manipulation, biological control, behavioral-modifying techniques, botanicals, and non-pesticide pest management. An excellent source of advanced study material for academics, researchers and students, elucidating the underlying concepts of the IPM development process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Seitenzahl: 690
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402089923
• Artikelnr.: 37345949

Inhaltsangabe

Integrated Pest Management: A Global Overview of History, Programs and Adoption.- Integrated Pest Management: Concept, Opportunities and Challenges.- Pesticides and Pest Control.- Environmental and Economic Costs of the Application of Pesticides Primarily in the United States.- Economic and Ecological Externalities of Pesticide Use in India.- Advances in Crop Protection Practices for the Environmental Sustainability of Cropping Systems.- Keys to the Increased Use of Host Plant Resistance in Integrated Pest Management.- Biotechnological Interventions in Host Plant Resistance.- Biological Control and Integrated Pest Management.- Conventional and New Biological and Habitat Interventions for Integrated Pest Management Systems: Review and Case Studies using Eldana saccharina Walker(Lepidoptera: Pyralidae).- Behavior-Modifying Strategies in IPM: Theory and Practice.- Botanicals in Pest Management: Current Status and Future Perspectives.- Insect Outbreaks and Their Management.- Plant DiseaseEpidemiology and Disease Management - Has Science Had an Impact on Practice?.- Integrated Disease Management: Concepts and Practices.- When Is a Rice Insect a Pest: Yield Loss and the Green Revolution.- Changing Trends in Cotton Pest Management.- Non Pesticidal Management: Learning from Experiences.- IPM Programs in Vegetable Crops in Australia and USA: Current Status and Emerging Trends.- Integrated Pest Management in Fruits - Theory and Practice.- Bio-Intensive Integrated Pest Management in Fruit Crop Ecosystem.- Integrated Disease Management: Concepts and Practices.

Rezensionen

From the reviews: "Peshin ... and Dhawan (Punjab Agricultural Univ., India) have assembled an interdisciplinary team of 43 experts from eight countries to produce an encyclopedic overview of fundamental concepts and recent advances in integrated pest management (IPM). Their ambitious undertaking is well executed, with a ... combination of breath and detail, and a truly global perspective. The volume is carefully edited and amply referenced. ... For those whose studies relate to IPM, this collection will be an invaluable resource. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty." (M. K. Bomford, Choice, Vol. 47 (3), November, 2009)