Global pesticide resistance in arthropods /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2008.
• Subjects: Arthropod pests > Control.; Arthropod pests > Insecticide resistance.; Laws and Regulations.; Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Pesticide and Drug Resistance.; Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Genetics and Molecular Genetics (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Physiology and Biochemistry (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Mathematics and Statistics.; Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Taxonomy and Evolution.; Arthropods.; Plants.; Biochemistry.; Evolution.; Genetically engineered organisms.; Molecular genetics.; Pesticide resistance.; Pesticides.; Policy.; Resistance management.; Risk assessment.; Simulation models.; Transgenic plants.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 6 chapters focusing on the following topics: analysis of global pesticide resistance in arthropods; documentation of pesticide resistance in arthropods; the biochemical and molecular genetic basis of resistance to pesticides in arthropods; assessing the risk of the evolution of re...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / M.E. Whalon
• Analysis of Global Pesticide Resistance in Arthropods / M.E. Whalon, D. Mota-Sanchez and R.M. Hollingworth
• Documentation of Pesticide Resistance in Arthropods / D. Mota-Sanchez, M.E. Whalon, R.M. Hollingworth and Q. Xue
• The Biochemical and Molecular Genetic Basis of Resistance to Pesticides in Arthropods / R.M. Hollingworth and K. Dong
• Assessing the Risk of the Evolution of Resistance to Pesticides Using Spatially Complex Simulation Models / M.A. Caprio, N.P. Storer, M.S. Sisterson, S.L. Peck and A.H.N. Maia
• Pesticide and Transgenic Plant Resistance Management in the Field / D.A. Andow, G.P. Fitt, E.J. Grafius, R.E. Jackson, E.B. Radcliffe, D.W. Ragsdale and L. Rossiter
• The Politics of Resistance Management : Working Towards Pesticide Resistance Management Globally / G.D. Thompson, S. Matten, I. Denholm, M.E. Whalon and P. Leonard.