1st Edition

The Entomology Of Indigenous And Naturalized Systems In Agriculture

250 Pages
by CRC Press

250 Pages
by CRC Press

238 Pages
by CRC Press

This book highlights some agriculturally important plants and their associated arthropod complexes with a biological, as well as an agricultural, perspective. It discusses how limited knowledge of entomology may be used to enhance management of pest species in cultivated sunflower.

Dedication -- Preface -- Entomology of Indigenous Helianthus Species and Cultivated Sunflowers -- Entomology of Crucifers and Agriculture—Diversification of the Agroecosystem in Relation to Pest Damage in Cruciferous Crops -- Entomology and Horticulture of Muscadine Grapes -- Entomology of the Strawberry -- Entomology of Rabbiteye Blueberries, Vaccinium ashei Reade, in Southeastern United States -- Entomology of Johnsongrass/Sorghum/Sorghum Midge and Agriculture -- Sorghum-Corn-Johnsongrass and Banks Grass Mite: A Model for Biological Control in Field Crops -- Rice Insect Pests and Agricultural Change -- Entomology of Wheat -- Pecan Domestication and Pecan Arthropods

Biography

Marvin K. Harris, Charlie E. Rogers