1st Edition

Pesticide Interactions in Crop Production Beneficial and Deleterious Effects

By J. Altman Copyright 1993
591 Pages
by CRC Press

591 Pages
by CRC Press

Pesticide Interactions in Crop Production: Beneficial and Deleterious Effects evaluates the effects of pesticides on plants by exploring the physical, chemical, biological, and ecological interactions of pesticides that influence a crop. The effects of pesticides on the environment and on the crop pests themselves are considered as well. Specific topics addressed include iatrogenic responses, the... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Allelopathy 3. Fate of pesticides 4. Persistence of pesticides 5. Resistance to pesticides 6. Influence of pesticides on should symbionts, soul microflora, and soil mycoflora 7. Iatrogenic responses and pesticide � pathogen interactions 8. Influence of nematicides on nematodes pathogens and their host plants 9. Crop injury 10. Safeners 11. Biologicals to replace pesticides 12. Ecological agriculture and conventional biodynamic cropping systems 13. Management of postharvest diseases 14. Induced resistance 15. Economic and agronomic factors related to pesticide use 16. Future trends for pest control

Biography

J. Altman