1st Edition

Biotechnological Approaches for Pest Management and Ecological Sustainability

548 Pages

by CRC Press

548 Pages

by CRC Press

546 Pages

by CRC Press

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Due to increasing problems occurring from massive applications of pesticides, such as insect resistance to pesticides, the use of biotechnological tools to minimize losses from insect pests has become inevitable. Presenting alternative strategies for alleviating biotic stresses, Biotechnological Approaches for Pest Management and Ecological Sustainability explores how the modern tools of... Read more

Pest Management and the Environment. Applications of Biotechnology in Agriculture: The Prospects. Evaluation of Transgenic Plants and Mapping Populations for Resistance to Insect Pests. Host Plant Resistance to Insects: Potential and Limitations. Mechanisms and Inheritance of Resistance to Insect Pests. Physico-Chemical and Molecular Markers for Resistance to Insect Pests. Genetic Transformation of Crops for Resistance to Insect Pests. Genetic Engineering of Entomopathogenic Microbes for Pest Management. Genetic Engineering of Natural Enemies for Integrated Pest Management. Deployment of Insect-Resistant Transgenic Crops for Pest Management: Potential and Limitations. Transgenic Resistance to Insects: Interactions with Non-Target Organisms. Development of Resistance to Transgenic Plants and Strategies for Resistance Management. Transgenic Resistance to Insects: Gene Flow. Transgenic Resistance to Insects: Nature of Risk and Risk Management. Biosafety of Food from Genetically Modified Crops. Detection and Monitoring of Food and Food Products Derived from Genetically Modified Crops. Molecular Markers for Diagnosis of Insect Pests and Their Natural Enemies. Molecular Techniques for Developing New Insecticide Molecules and Monitoring Insect Resistance to Insecticides. Biotechnology, Pest Management, and the Environment: The Future. Index.