Aphids as crop pests /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Subjects: Aphids > Control.; Aphids.; Agricultural pests.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Biological Control.; Integrated Pest Management.; Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000); Pesticide and Drug Resistance.; Reproduction, Development and Life Cycle (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Genetics and Molecular Genetics (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Physiology and Biochemistry (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Behaviour (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Pathogens, Parasites and Infectious Diseases (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Mathematics and Statistics.; Animal Ecology.; Taxonomy and Evolution.; Aphidoidea.; Cucurbitaceae.; Gossypium.; Gossypium herbaceum.; Gossypium hirsutum.; Insects.; Sorghum bicolor.; Animal nutrition.; Behaviour.; Biological control.; Biological control agents.; Biological development.; Chemical control.; Chemical ecology.; Cotton.; Decision analysis.; Entomopathogens.; Feeding.; Forecasting.; Growth.; Host-seeking behaviour.; Insect control.; Insect pests.; Insecticide resistance.; Integrated control.; Integrated pest management.; Life cycle.; Natural enemies.; Parasitoids.; Pathogens.; Pest control.; Pest management.; Physical activity.; Plant pests.; Population dynamics.; Population genetics.; Predators.; Symbiosis.; Taxonomy.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 31 chapters covering aphids as crop pests, from recent advances in molecular science and chemical ecology to forecasting and insect pest management decision support systems. It is a comprehensive reference volume on all aspects of the biology of aphids that are relevant to their p...

Table of Contents:

• Taxonomic issues / Roger L. Blackman and Victor F. Eastop
• Population genetic issues : the unfolding story using molecular markers / Hugh D. Loxdale and Gugs Lushai
• Life cycles and polymorphism / Iain S. Williams and Anthony F.G. Dixon
• Host-plant selection and feeding / Jan Pettersson, W. Fred Tjallingii and Jim Hardie
• Nutrition and symbiosis / Angela E. Douglas and Helmut F. van Emden
• Growth and development / Caroline S. Awmack and Simon R. Leather
• Aphid movement : process and consequences / Michael E. Irwin, Gail E. Kampmeier and Wolfgang W. Weisser
• Predators, parasitoids and pathogens / Wolfgang Völkl, Manfred Mackauer, Judith K. Pell and Jacques Brodeur
• Chemical ecology / John A. Pickett and Robert T. Glinwood
• Insecticide resistance / Stephen P. Foster, Gregor Devine and Alan L. Devonshire
• Coping with stress / Jeffrey S. Bale, Katherine L. Ponder and Jeremy Pritchard
• Population dynamics / Pavel Kindlmann, Vojtěck Jaroši͡k and Anthony F.G. Dixon
• Feeding injury / Sharron S. Quisenberry and Xinzhi Ni
• Transmission of plant viruses / Nikos I. Katsis, John A. Tsitsipis, Mark Stevens and Glen Powell
• Chemical control / Alan M. Dewar
• Cultural control / Steve D. Wratten, Geoff M. Gurr, Jason M. Tylianakis and Katherine A. Robinson
• Host-plant resistance / Helmut F. van Emden
• Biological control / Wilf Powell and Judith K. Pell
• Monitoring and forecasting / Richard Harrington, Maurice Hullé and Manuel Plantegenest
• Integrated pest management and introduction to IPM case studies / Helmut F. van Emden
• IPM case studies : brassicas / Rosemary H. Collier and Stan Finch
• IPM case studies : berry crops / Rufus Isaacs and J.A. Trefor Woodford
• IPM case studies : cotton / Jean-Philippe Deguine, Maurice Vaissayre and the late François Leclant
• IPM case studies : leafy salad crops / G. Mark Tatchell
• IPM case studies : grain / Hans-Michael Poehling, Bernd Freier and A. Michael Klüken
• IPM case studies : seed potato / Edward B. Radcliffe, David W. Ragsdale and Robert A. Surányi
• IPM case studies : sorghum / Gerald J. Michels, Jr. and John D. Burd
• IPM case studies : cucurbits / Susan E. Webb
• IPM case studies : deciduous fruit trees / Sebastiano Barbagallo, Giuseppe Cocuzza, Piero Cravedi and Shinkichi Komazaki
• IPM case studies : tropical and subtropical fruit trees / Sebastiano Barbagallo, Giuseppe Cocuzza, Piero Cravedi and Shinkichi Komazaki
• Decision support systems / Jonathan D. Knight and Deborah J. Thackray.