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Ecofriendly pest management for food security /

0128032650

9780128032657

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Ecofriendly pest management for food security /

[Book]

edited by Omkar

xii, 750 pages :

illustrations,

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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"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

Agricultural biotechnology

Beneficial insects

Biological pest control agents

Food security

Insect pests-- Biological control

Pests-- Control-- Environmental aspects

Omkar

20160510025923.0

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