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Biotechnology and integrated pest management /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxon, UK :
CAB International,
c1996.
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| Online Access: | Publisher description Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Section One: Linking Biotechnology and Integrated Pest Management
- Needs and opportunities, Max J Whittan, Richard A Jefferson and David Dall
- Integrated pest management and biotechnology: An analysis of their potential for integration, Jeff Waage
- Integrated pest management in developing countries, Lim Guan Soon
- Section Two: Case Studies of IPM Integration and of Using Biocontrol Agents in IPM Systems
- Integrated pest management: Rice case-study, Peter E Kenmore
- Soybean in Brazil, Flavio Moscardi and D R Sosa-Gmez
- India: An overview Nandini V Katre
- Cassava in Africa, Hans R Herren
- Section Three: Using Biotechnology for New Biocontrol Agents
- Biological products for IPM, Pamela Marrone
- Novel biocontrol agents, Marjorie A Hoy
- Section Four: Biotechnology and Plant Breeding
- Marker-assisted plant breeding, Rebecca J Nelson
- Modern plant breeding: an Overview, Ivan W Buddenhagen
- Section Five: Case Studies: Transgenic Plants in IPM Systems
- Insect-resistant crop plants, David A Fischhoff
- Cotton in Australia, W James Peacock, D J Llewellyn and G P Fitt
- Virus-resistant transgenic plants, Roger Beachy
- Section Six: Alternative Strategies with Transgenes for Insect Resistance
- Can we slow adaptation by pests to insect resistant transgenic crops?, Richard T Roush
- Deploying pesticidal crops in developing countries, Fred Gould
- Section Seven: Other Components in IPM Systems
- New diagnostics, Mark E Whalon
- Virus/vector control, Michael E Irwin and Lowell R Nault
- Section Eight: New Opportunities
- Vector control, Elizabeth Evans
- Insect vectors of human diseases, Christopher F Curtis
- Molecular genetics, Veronica Rodriguz and K Vijiy Raghavan
- Section Nine: Investment Implications and Future Directions
- A view from industry, Ben J Mifflin
- Future directions for international development agencies, Gabrielle J Persley, Gary Toennisen and Peter Dar