Handbook of Natural Pesticides: Methods: Volume I: Theory, Practice, and Detection

ISBN-13: 9781315893617 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 552 str.

Mandava, N. Bhushan

Opis

This handbook series includes several naturally occurring chemicals that exhibit biological activity. These chemicals are derived from plants, insects, and several microorganisms. Volume I of this series is covers the theory and practice of the strategies for pest control and methods for detection.

Spis treści

Part 1: Theory and Practice 1. Pests and Their Control 2. Integrated Crop Management Systems for Pest Control 3. Integrated Weed Management Systems Technology for Agroecosystem Management 4. Computers and Pest Management 5. Allelopathy - A Natural Protection, Allelochemicals 6. Chemical Messengers and Insect Behavior 7. Toxicological Evaluation and Registration Requirements for Biorational Pesticides 8. The Regulation of Pesticides 9. Naturally Occurring Pesticides and the Pesticide Crisis, 1945 to 1980 Part 2: Methods for Detection 10. Bioassays for Plant Hormones and Other Naturally Occurring Plant Growth Regulators 11. Insect Bioassays 12. Biological Assays with Insect Pathogens

O autorze

N. Bhushan Mandava