Integrated pest management : principles and practice

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1 History, Overview and Principles of Ecologically-based Pest Management......Page 12
2 Integrated Pest Management for Sustainable Agriculture......Page 38
3 Pest Monitoring and Forecasting......Page 52
4 Augmentation and Conservation of Natural Enemies......Page 69
5 Biotechnological and Molecular Approaches in the Management of Pests and Diseases of Crop Plants......Page 103
6 Botanicals in Pest Management......Page 130
7 Biopesticides in Ecologically-based Integrated Pest Management......Page 144
8 Entomopathogenic Nematodes as Tools in Integrated Pest Management......Page 173
9 Microbial Control of Crop Pests using Entomopathogenic Fungi......Page 248
10 Microbial Control of Crop Pests using Insect Viruses......Page 292
11 Biological Control of Weeds with Plant Pathogens: Four Decades On......Page 310
12 Virus- and Bacteria-transmitting Arthropod Vectors and their Management......Page 362
13 Effect of Pesticides on Non-target Sites with Reference to Soil Ecosystems......Page 381
14 Integrated Pest Management in Stored Grains......Page 397
15 Role of Integrated Pest Management in Food and Nutritional Security......Page 419
16 Role of Information and Communication Technology in Integrated Pest Management......Page 444
17 From Integrated Pest Management to Ecosystem Management: the Case of Urban Lawn......Page 461
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