Insecticides

Advances in Integrated Pest Management

724 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book contains 30 Chapters divided into 5 Sections. Section A covers integrated pest management, alternative insect control strategies, ecological impact of insecticides as well as pesticides and drugs of forensic interest. Section B is dedicated to chemical control and health risks, applications for insecticides, metabolism of pesticides by human cytochrome p450, etc. Section C provides biochemical analyses of action of chlorfluazuron, pest control effects on seed yield, chemical ecology, quality control, development of ideal insecticide, insecticide resistance, etc. Section D reviews current analytical methods, electroanalysis of insecticides, insecticide activity and secondary metabolites. Section E provides data contributing to better understanding of biological control through Bacillus sphaericus and B. thuringiensis, entomopathogenic nematodes insecticides, vector-borne disease, etc. The subject matter in this book should attract the reader's concern to support rational decisions regarding the use of pesticides.

• Themen: Technologie, Ingenieurswissenschaft, Landwirtschaft, Industrieprozesse Landwirtschaft Schädlingsbekämpfung / Pflanzenkrankheiten
• ISBN: 9789533077802
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.01.2012
• Größe: 266 x 185 mm
• Verlag: IntechOpen
• Herausgegeben von: Farzana Khan Perveen