Natural products in plant pest management /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Subjects: Natural pesticides.; Agricultural pests > Control.; Plant products.; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000); Storage Problems and Pests of Food.; Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.; Allelochemicals.; Botanical pesticides.; Endophytes.; Mycotoxins.; Natural products.; Pest control.; Plant disease control.; Plant diseases.; Plant viruses.; Stored products pests.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 13 chapters which deal with the current state and future prospects of botanical pesticides in the eco-friendly management of plant pests. Different issues, including the global scenario on the application of botanical pesticides, plant products in the control of mycotoxins, the co...

Table of Contents:

• Global scenario on the application of natural products in integrated pest management programmes / N.K. Dubey, Ravindra Shukla, Ashok Kumar, Priyanka Singh and Bhanu Prakash
• Plant products in the control of mycotoxins and mycotoxigenic fungi on food commodities / Sonia Marín, Vicente Sanchis and Antonio J. Ramos
• Natural products from plants : commercial prospects in terms of antimicrobial, herbicidal and bio-stimulatory activities in an integrated pest management system / J.C. Pretorius and E. van der Watt
• Antimicrobials of plant origin to prevent the biodeterioration of grains / K.A. Raveesha
• Some natural proteinaceous and polyketide compounds in plant protection and their potential in green consumerization / L.A. Shcherbakova
• Natural products as allelochemicals in pest management / Roman Pavela
• Potency of plant products in control of virus diseases of plants / H.N. Verma and V.K. Baranwal
• Phytochemicals as natural fumigants and contact insecticides against stored-product insects / Moshe Kostyukovsky and Eli Shaaya
• Prospectives of large-scale use of natural products as alternatives to synthetic pesticides in developing countries / D.B. Olufolaji
• Current status of natural products in pest management with special reference to Brassica carinata as biofumigant / María Porras
• Fungal endophytes : an alternative source of bioactive compounds for plant protection / R.N. Kharwar and Gary Strobel
• Suppressive effects of compost tea on phytopathogens / Mila Santos, Fernando Diánez and Francisco Carretero
• Biotechnology : a tool for natural product synthesis / Sanath Hettiarachi.