Biotechnological Approaches for Pest Management and Ecological Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9780367386191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 548 str.

Hari C. Sharma

Opis

This comprehensive treatise explores how biotechnology can be used in pest management for sustainable crop production, the biosafety of transgenic crops, and environmental conservation. It examines how bioassay techniques can be used to evaluate mapping populations and the efficacy of transgenic plants for pest management. The book also presents an in-depth analysis of the interaction of transgenic plants with non-target organisms in the environment and discusses the biosafety of food, feed, and forage derived from genetically modified crops. The author covers the consequences of gene flow, along with applications for the improvement of microbial pesticides and the discovery of new insecticide molecules.

Spis treści

Pest Management and the Environment. Applications of Biotechnology in Agriculture: The Prospects. Evaluation of Transgenic Plants and Mapping Populations for Resistance to Insect Pests. Host Plant Resistance to Insects: Potential and Limitations. Mechanisms and Inheritance of Resistance to Insect Pests. Physico-Chemical and Molecular Markers for Resistance to Insect Pests. Genetic Transformation of Crops for Resistance to Insect Pests. Genetic Engineering of Entomopathogenic Microbes for Pest Management. Genetic Engineering of Natural Enemies for Integrated Pest Management. Deployment of Insect-Resistant Transgenic Crops for Pest Management: Potential and Limitations. Transgenic Resistance to Insects: Interactions with Non-Target Organisms. Development of Resistance to Transgenic Plants and Strategies for Resistance Management. Transgenic Resistance to Insects: Gene Flow. Transgenic Resistance to Insects: Nature of Risk and Risk Management. Biosafety of Food from Genetically Modified Crops. Detection and Monitoring of Food and Food Products Derived from Genetically Modified Crops. Molecular Markers for Diagnosis of Insect Pests and Their Natural Enemies. Molecular Techniques for Developing New Insecticide Molecules and Monitoring Insect Resistance to Insecticides. Biotechnology, Pest Management, and the Environment: The Future. Index.

O autorze

Sharma, Hari C