Integrated pest management : principles and practice /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Pests > Integrated control.; Agricultural pests > Integrated control.; Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Integrated Pest Management.; Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000); Chemical control.; Green revolution.; Integrated control.; Integrated pest management.; Pest control.; Pesticides.; Plant pests.; Sustainability.; Tropics.; Electronic books.
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This book covers integrated pest management (IPM) from multidisciplinary, multicountry and multifaceted components in terms of holistic and unified IPM systems and its implementation in various fields concerned with pest management. Beyond IPM, pest management without pesticides in the tropics with...

Table of Contents:

• History, Overview and Principles of Ecologically-based Pest Management / Dharam P. Abrol and Uma Shankar
• Integrated Pest Management for Sustainable Agriculture / Gary Fitt and Lewis Wilson
• Pest Monitoring and Forecasting / Yenumula G. Prasad and Mathyam Prabhakar
• Augmentation and Conservation of Natural Enemies / David Orr and Aaron Fox
• Biotechnological and Molecular Approaches in the Management of Pests and Diseases of Crop Plants / Subbarayalu Mohankumar, Natarajan Balakrishnan and Ramasamy Samiyappan
• Botanicals in Pest Management / Catherine Regnault-Roger
• Biopesticides in Ecologically-based Integrated Pest Management / Parvez Q. Rizvi, Syed K. Ahmad, Rummana A. Choudhury and Arshad Ali
• Entomopathogenic Nematodes as Tools in Integrated Pest Management / Parwinder S. Grewal
• Microbial Control of Crop Pests using Entomopathogenic Fungi / Houping Liu
• Microbial Control of Crop Pests using Insect Viruses / Karolin E. Eberle, Johannes A. Jehle and Jörg Huber
• Biological Control of Weeds with Plant Pathogens : Four Decades On / Robert W. Barreto, Carol A. Ellison, Marion K. Seier and Harry C. Evans
• Virus- and Bacteria-transmitting Arthropod Vectors and their Management / Phyllis G. Weintraub
• Effect of Pesticides on Non-target Sites with Reference to Soil Ecosystems / Ashok K. Bhat
• Integrated Pest Management in Stored Grains / Uma Shankar and Dharam P. Abrol
• Role of Integrated Pest Management in Food and Nutritional Security / Uma Shankar and Dharam P. Abrol
• Role of Information and Communication Technology in Integrated Pest Management / Zuo-Rui Shen, Deng-Fa Cheng, Yun-Hui Zhang , Ling-Wang Gao
• From Integrated Pest Management to Ecosystem Management : the Case of Urban Lawn / Parwinder S. Grewal.