Economics, Ecology and Coevolution : Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Bruchids and Legumes (ISBL-2) held at Okayama (Japan), September 6-9, 1989
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by K. Fujii, A.M.R. Gatehouse, C.D. Johnson, R. Mitchel, T. Yoshida.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Dordrecht
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Netherlands
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1990
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(432 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Series entomologica, 46.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Historical review of Bruchid studies in Japan.- 1. Biology and Control of Bruchid.- Biology.- Bionomics of Bruchidius incarnatus Boh. in Egypt.- Regulatation of autonomic physiological functions during reproductive diapause of Bruchus affinis.- Role of physical and chemical stimuli of legume host seeds in comparative oviposi-tional behaviour of Callosobruchus maculatus (Fab.) and C. chinensis (Linn.) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae).- Chemical ecology of Bruchids.- Control.- Some promising physical, botanical and chemical methods for the protection of some grain legumes against Bruchids in storage under Bangladesh conditions.- Carbon dioxide as a control agent for Callosobruchus maculatus (Fab.) in stored adzuki bean.- Effect of vegetable oils on the ovipositional behaviour of Callosobruchus maculatus (Fabricius).- Effect of five botanicals as protectants of greengram against the pulse beetle Callosobruchus maculates.- Insecticidal actions of several plants to Callosobruchus chinensis.- Insecticidal control of cowpea weevil, Callosobruchus maculatus F., a pest of mungbean.- Pea weevil (Bruchus pisorum L.) and crop loss - Implications for management.- Plant quarantine and fumigation of imported grain legumes in Japan.- 2. Life Cycle and Coevolution of Bruchid and Legume.- Taxonomic Feature and Life Cycle of Bruchidae.- New world Bruchidae: Past, present, future.- A synopsis of the Bruchid fauna of Japan.- Diversity in life cycle patterns of Bruchids occurring in Japan (Coleoptera: Bruchidae).- Life history of the azuki bean weevil, Callosobruchus chinensis (Coleoptera: Bruchidae), in the field.- Coevolution of Bruchid and Legume.- Biochemical adaptations by the bruchid beetle Caryedes brasiliensis.- Coevolutionary relations between Bruchids and their host plants. The influence on the physiology of the insects.- Coevolution of Bruchidae and their hosts: Evidence, conjecture, and conclusions.- Breeding of Bruchid-resistant Legumes.- Systematics of the azuki bean group in the genus Vigna.- Cross compatibility and cytogenetical relationships among Asian Vigna species.- Genetics and breeding for Bruchid resistance in Asiatic Vigna species.- Breeding for Bruchid resistance in cowpea.- Bruchid resistance factors in Phaseolus and Vigna legumes.- Biochemical resistance to Bruchid attack in legume seeds; investigation and exploitation.- 3. Laboratory Population Ecology of Bruchids and their Parasites.- Bruchid Life History, Ecology, and Evolution.- Life histories of stored-products insects.- Biotype variation and host change in Bruchids: Causes and effects in the evolution of Bruchid pests.- Experimental character displacement in the Adzuki bean weevil, Callosobruchus chinensis.- Alternative life-histories in Callosobruchus maculatus: Environmental and genetic bases.- Behavioral Interaction.- Behavioral ecology of Callosobruchus maculates.- Sex-ratio determination in three wasp ectoparasitic on bean weevil larvae.- The mechanisms of contest and scramble competition in Bruchid species.- Adaptations of Callosobruchus species to competition.- Population Dynamics.- Comparison of the density-dependent population process between laboratory and wild strains of Callosobruchus chinensis (L.).- Population processes and dynamics of laboratory populations of Callosobruchus spp.- Simulation of Professor Utida's classic experiment on an interaction between the azuki bean weevil and its parasitic wasp.- A list of the legumes treated in the book and in the Symposium (ISBL-II).
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Bruchids and Legumes (ISBL-2) held at Okayama (Japan), September 6-9, 1989
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Farm economics.
Life sciences.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
SB608
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L4
Book number
E358
1990
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
edited by K. Fujii, A.M.R. Gatehouse, C.D. Johnson, R. Mitchel, T. Yoshida.