Integrated Pest Management

by Peshin, Rajinder; Dhawan, Ashok K.

• ISBN13: 9781402089916
• ISBN10: 1402089910
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The book covers the recognition of the problems of dysfunctional and indirect economic and environmental consequences of pesticide use in agriculture, through research and development of different IPM tactics. Written by an interdisciplinary team of experts from entomology, plant pathology, plant breeding, plant physiology, biochemistry, and extension education covering externalities of pesticide use, pest outbreaks, threshold theory, host plant resistance, crop plant manipulation, biological control, behavioral-modifying techniques, botanicals, and non-pesticide pest management. An excellent source of advanced study material for academics, researchers and students, elucidating the underlying concepts of the IPM development process.

Table of Contents

Integrated Pest Management: A Global Overview of History, Programs and Adoption	p. 1
Integrated Pest Management: Concept, Opportunities and Challenges	p. 51
Pesticides and Pest Control	p. 83
Environmental and Economic Costs of the Application of Pesticides Primarily in the United States	p. 89
Economic and Ecological Externalities of Pesticide Use in India	p. 113
Advances in Crop Protection Practices for the Environmental Sustainability of Cropping Systems	p. 131
Keys to the Increased Use of Host Plant Resistance in Integrated Pest Management	p. 163
Biotechnological Interventions in Host Plant Resistance	p. 183
Biological Control and Integrated Pest Management	p. 207
Conventional and New Biological and Habitat Interventions for Integrated Pest Management Systems: Review and Case Studies using Eldana saccharina Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)	p. 241
Behavior-Modifying Strategies in IPM: Theory and Practice	p. 263
Botanicals in Pest Management: Current Status and Future Perspectives	p. 317
Insect Outbreaks and Their Management	p. 331
Plant Disease Epidemiology and Disease Management - Has Science Had an Impact on Practice?	p. 351
Integrated Disease Management: Concepts and Practices	p. 369
When Is a Rice Insect a Pest: Yield Loss and the Green Revolution	p. 391
Changing Trends in Cotton Pest Management	p. 499
Non Pesticidal Management: Learning from Experiences	p. 543
IPM Programs in Vegetable Crops in Australia and USA: Current Status and Emerging Trends	p. 575
Integrated Pest Management in Fruits - Theory and Practice	p. 599
Bio-Intensive Integrated Pest Management in Fruit Crop Ecosystem	p. 631
Index	p. 667
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