Natural Remedies for Pest, Disease and Weed Control

ISBN-13: 9780128193044 / Angielski

Chukwuebuka Egbuna; Barbara Sawicka

Spis treści

PART I: GREEN APPROACH TO PEST AND DISEASE CONTROL 1. Pests of Agricultural Crops and Control Measures 2. Plant Diseases, Pathogens and Diagnosis 3. Pesticide Use in Agriculture: Impacts and Way Forward 4. Biopesticides, Safety Issues and Market Trends 5. Natural Compounds against Plant Pests and Pathogens 6. Phytochemicals of Plant Derived Essential Oils: A Novel Green Approach against Pests 7. Semiochemicals: A Green Approach to Pest and Disease Control 8. Fungistatic Properties of Lectin-Containing Extracts of Medicinal Plants

PART II: BIOLOGICAL CONTROL MEASURES 9. Weed Control by Allelopathic Compounds from Different Plants: A Bioherbicide Approach 10. Microbial Control of Pests and Weeds 11. Biological Control of Pests by Endophytic Microorganisms

PART III: TECHNIQUES, BIOTECHNOLOGICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH 12. Techniques for the Detection, Identification and Diagnosis of Agricultural Pathogens and Diseases 13. Nucleic Acid-Based Methods in Detection of Foodborne Pathogens 14. Plant biotechnology in food security 15. Homemade Preparations of Natural Biopesticides and Applications 16. The Use of Vermiwash and Vermicompost Foliar Spray in Pest and Disease Control 17. Genetic Modification as a Control Mechanism to Plant Pest and Disease Attack 18. Biopesticides Formulation and Delivery Techniques 19. Safe Storage and Preservation Techniques in Commercialized Agriculture 20. Advances in the Application of Information and Communication Technology in Plant Pest and Disease management 21. Application of Computational Techniques in Plant Pathology

O autorze

Chukwuebuka Egbuna (PhD) is a chartered chemist and academic researcher. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria (ICCON), the Nigerian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NSBMB), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) (United Kingdom). Dr. Egbuna is the founder and editor of the Elsevier book series on Drug Discovery Update. The series includes books, monographs, and edited collections from all areas of drug discovery including emerging therapeutic claims for the treatment of diseases. He has published research articles in many international journals of repute and is ranked among the top 500 Nigerian scientists in SciVal/SCOPUS. He has edited more than 25 books with Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis. His most recent book is the three volume Coronavirus Drug Discovery, published by Elsevier. Dr. Egbuna is the founder and the publishing director of IPS Intelligentsia Publishing Services.

Dr. Sawicka obtained her PhD from the Agricultural University in Lublin, Poland. Since 1999 she has been a Professor at the University of Life Science in Lublin and was promoted to Head of the Department of Plant Production Technology and Commodities Sciences in 2012. She is an honorary member of the Advisory board of Journal Archives of Agricultural and Environmental Science, a member of the advisory board of International Journal of Research & Methodology in Social Science, and also the board of 'STUDIA NATURAE”, for the Annals Universitatis Pedagoogicae Cracoviensis. She has over 280 original research papers, 8 books and 1 patent. Her research areas of interest are Agronomy, Agribusiness and Rural Development, Bioengineering, Environmental Protection, Food Sciences, Food Safety, Commodity Products.