The agricultural land is becoming a scarce resource with increased pressure of population wherein ways to enhance the crop productivity needs to be strengthened. One of the focuses is to curb the crop losses due to insect pests in a sustainable manner. The alarming and detrimental effects of chemical pesticides on environment and non target organisms, integrated pest management has been evolved with viable, benign and ecofriendly strategies. As juvenile hormone(JH) plays an important role in insects physiology and reproduction, the systems (metamorphosis, moulting and reproduction) related...
The agricultural land is becoming a scarce resource with increased pressure of population wherein ways to enhance the crop productivity needs to be s...