Biotechnological approaches for pest management and ecological sustainability

• Main Author: Sharma, H. C.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton [Fla.] : CRC Press, c2009.
• Subjects: Agricultural pests > Biological control.; Insect pests > Biological control.; Plants > Insect resistance > Genetic aspects.; Plant biotechnology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781420088489
• Physical Description: xx, 526 p. : ill.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Pest management and the environment
• 2. Applications of biotechnology in agriculture : the prospects
• 3. Evaluation of transgenic plants and magging populations for resistance to insect pests
• 4. Host plant resistance to insects : potential and limitations
• 5. Mechanisms and inheritance of resistance to insect pests
• 6. Physico-chemical and molecular markers for resistance to insect pests
• 7. Genetic transformation of crops for resistance to insect pests
• 8. Genetic engineering of entopmopathogenic microbes for pest management
• 9. Genetic engineering of natural enemies for integrated pest management
• 10. Deployment of insect-resistance transgenic crops for pest management potential and limitation
• 11. Transgenic resistance to insects : interaction with nontarget organisms
• 12. Development of resistance to transgenic plants and strategies for resistance management
• 13. Transgenic resistance to insects : gene flow
• 14. Transgenic resistance to insects : nature of risk and risk management
• 15. Biosafety of food from genetically modified crops
• 16. Detection and monitoring of food and food products derived from genetically modified crops
• 17. Molecular markers for diagnosis of insect pests and their natural enemies
• 18. Molecular techniques for developing new insecticide molecules and monitoring insect resistance to insecticides
• 19. Biotechnoloyg, pest management, and the environment : the future
• Species index
• Subject index.