Biopesticides handbook

Offering a full spectrum and review of the range of organisms and organic products that may be used in the biological control of insects, this book discusses the uses and abuses of biopesticides that have been in circulation for more than 50 years, as well as more recent advances in this area. It de...

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Other Authors Nollet, Leo M. L., 1948- (Editor), Rathore, Hamir Singh (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2015]
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781466596535
1466596538
9781523107063
1523107065
9780429190278
0429190271
9781466596528
146659652X
Physical Description1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Leo M.L. Nollet and Hamir Singh Rathore
  • Types of biopesticides / Travis R. Glare
  • Metabolism of biopesticides / Stephen Majoni and Basil Munjanja
  • Modes of action of biopesticides / Shariq Ibrahim Sherwani and Haseeb Ahmad Khan
  • Biopesticide residues in foodstuffs / Basil Munjanja, Allen Chaparadza, and Stephen Majoni
  • Biopesticide residues in water / Edmond Sanganyado, Basil Munjanja, and Vincent T. Nyakubaya
  • Biopesticide residues in soil / Roberto Romero-González, Antonia Garrido Frenich, and José L. Martínez-Vidal
  • Biochemical pesticides : regulatory schemes / Leo M.L. Nollet
  • Biochemical pesticides : applications of pheromones in crop protection / Hamir Singh Rathore, Sheetal Mittal, and Leo M.L. Nollet
  • Biochemical pesticides : oil pesticides / Ompal Singh, Hamir Singh Rathore, and Leo M.L. Nollet
  • Use of plant extracts and wastes from agroindustry as pest management agents / Ignacio Migues, Flaviane Magrini, Horacio Heinzen, and Maria Veronica Cesio
  • Use of fungi as biopesticides / Neiva Monteiro de Barros, Edegar Fronza, and Lúcia Rosane Bertholdo-Vargas.