Ecofriendly pest management for food security / edited by Omkar, Centre of Excellence in Biocontrol of Insect Pests, Ladybird Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India.
| Other author | Omkar |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Boston ; Elsevier/AP, Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, [2016] |
| Description | xii, 750 pages : illustrations, 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBook - Agricultural, Biological, and Food Sciences 2016 [EBCABS16] |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Insects and pests / T.P. Rajendran and Devendra Singh -- Biocontrol of insect pests / Omkar, and Bhupendra Kumar -- Aphids and their biocontrol / Rajendra Singh and Garima Singh -- Parasitoids / M. Kalyanasundaram and I. Merlin Kamala -- Trichogrammatids / S.K. Jalali, Prashanth Mohanrah, and B.L. Lakshmi -- Anthocorid predators / Chandish R. Ballal and Kazutaka Yamada -- Reduviid predators / Dunston P. Ambrose and A. Ganesh Kumar -- Syrphid flies (the hovering agents) / Omkar, and Geetanjali Mishra -- Ladybird beetles / Omkar, and Ahmad Pervez -- Chrysopids / N. Dhandapani, Pallavi Sarkar, and Geetanjali Mishra -- Mite predators / Yaghoub Fathipour and Bahador Maleknia -- Entomopathogenic nematodes / S. Subramanian and M. Muthulakshmi -- Insect viruses / Vivek Prasad and Shalini Srivastava -- Bacillus thuringiensis / G. Keshavareddy and A.R.V. Kumar -- Entomopathogenic fungi / Kaushal K. Sinha, Ajoy Kr. Choudhary, and Priyanka Kumari -- Plant monoterpenoids (prospective pesticides) / Arun K. Tripathi and Shikha Mishra -- Antifeedant phytochemicals in insect management (so close yet so far) / Opender Koul -- Neem products / Rashmi Roychoudhury -- Semiochemicals / N. Bakthavatsalam -- Insect hormones (as pesticides) / S. Subramanian and K. Shankarganesh -- Integrated pest management / P. Karuppuchamy and Sheela Venugopal -- Biotechnological approaches / Arun K. Tripathi and Shikha Mishra -- GMO and food security / Mala Trivedi, Rachana Singh, Manish Shukla, and Rajesh K. Tiwari. |
| Abstract | "Ecofriendly Pest Management for Food Security explores the broad range of opportunities and challenges afforded by integrated pest management (IPM) systems."-- Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015955067 |
| ISBN | 9780128032657 |
| ISBN | 0128032650 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |