Biotechnological Approaches for Pest Management and Ecological Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9781560221630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 546 str.

Hari C. Sharma

Opis

Over the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in the use of transgenic crops. The development and deployment of these insect-resistant crops has raised concerns about their likely effects on non-target organisms, food safety, and the environment. This book presents various applications of biotechnology in pest management for sustainable crop production, bio-safety of transgenic crops, and environment conservation. It provides an in-depth look at ways to use biotechnology and bioassay techniques to improve bio-pesticides and natural enemies as well as to help discover 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