ISBN: 9788172337605 - theory and practice of integrated pest management [hardcover] [jan 01, 2012] arora, r. [hardcover] [jan 01, 2017] arora, r. (5 risultati)

Condizione: New. pp. xv + 529 Illus.

Condizione: New. pp. xv + 529.

Condizione: New. pp. xv + 529.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. ISBN:9788172337605.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Contents Preface1 Integrated Pest Management Concept and ApproachesRamesh Arora and AK Dhawan 2 Factors Affecting Insect-Pest PopulationsPS Sarao and MS Mahal 3 Construction of Life-Tables for Insect SpeciesMS Mahal 4 Co-evolution of Insects and PlantsRamesh Arora 5 Role of Pesticides in Management of Crop PestsBalwinder Singh 6 Molecular Approaches in Entomological ResearchVK Gupta and Vikas Jindal 7 Potential of Insect Growth Regulators in Insect Pest ManagementGursharan Singh and KS Suri 8 Botanical Pesticides in Insect Pest ManagementNaveen Aggarwal 9 Pesticide Resistance Monitoring Mechanism and ManagementBK Kang 10 Recent Developments in Pesticide Formulation TechnologyPS Shera and Ramesh Arora11 Pesticide Application EquipmentIPS Sandhu12 Role of Entomopathogenic nematodes in Insect Pest ManagementNaveen Aggarwal 13 Implications of Biotype Development in Host Plant ResistanceDR Sharma and RS Gill14 Role of Insect Surveillance in Integrated Pest ManagementDS Brar and Vijay Kumar15 Role of Insect-Pest Forecasting in Integrated Pest ManagementMS Mahal Beant Singh PS Sarao and Sandeep Singh16 Information Technology in Integrated Pest ManagementAK Dhawan GK Taggar and RS Gill 17 Management of Insect Pests of Cotton Retrospect and ProspectAK Dhawan Vijay Kumar and PS Shera18 Integrated Management of Insect-Pests in RicePS Sarao and MS Mahal19 Emerging Technologies for Integrated Pest Management in Forage CropsRamesh Arora 20 Management of Insect Pest Complex in MaizeVijay Kumar and Uma Kanta 21 Changing Scenario of Insect Pests of Wheat and their ManagementBeant Singh 22 Management of Insect Pests in CitrusPK Arora and DR Sharma 23 Management of Insect Pests in Fruit Crops other than CitrusDR Sharma PK Arora and Sandeep Singh 24 Management of Insect Pests of Vegetable Crops in Net HouseSandeep Kaur 25 Management of Insect Pests of Oilseeds CropsSarwan Kumar 26 Integrated Management of Insect Pests of Rabi PulsesGK Taggar and Ravinder Singh 27 Integrated Pest Management in Kharif PulsesRavinder Singh GK Taggar and HK Cheema 28 Pest Management in Jute and MestaT Ramasubramanian and S Satpathy 29 Management of Insect Pests of TobaccoAD Patel DM Mehta and LV GhetiyaThe dominance of insects in the world fauna has made them the humanitys greatest rival for the worlds food resources both directly by eating the plants cultivated for food and indirectly as vectors of pathogens attacking these plants Agricultural scientists and especially entomologists have strived hard to develop a diversity of cultural mechanical biological and chemical weapons during the last more than two centuries to gain dominance over insects However there is evidence that insect pest problems have escalated with an increasing cropping intensity and with the use of agrochemicals inherent in modern agriculture Consequently Indian plant protection scientists have intensified research on the development of pest management tactics and effective pest management systems have been designed for all the important crops in the country This book consisting of 29 chapters draws together the diverse literature on the subject of insect pest management in agriculture and contains contributions written by scientists having extensive experience with insect pest problems in Indian agriculture The first half of the book is devoted to the principles and components of pest management including factors affecting pest populations construction of life tables co-evolution of insects and plants pest forecasting pesticides IGRs botanicals entomopathogenic nematodes and molecular approaches etc The different tactics for the management of major insect pests of principal agricultural crops of India viz rice maize wheat forage crops cotton sugarcane vegetables fruits oilseeds pulse crops jute mesta and tobacco have been discussed in the second half of the book The book contains a wealth of information on all aspects of insect pest management in agriculture under Indian conditions and would pr.…