Emerging Technologies for Integrated Pest Management: Concepts, Research, and Implementation
- ISBN-10
- 0890542465
- ISBN-13
- 9780890542460
- Pages
- 526
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- APS Press
- Authors
- Turner B. Sutton, George G. Kennedy
Description
Section 1. Background. Perspectives on progress in IPM. Factors affecting the adoption of new technologies. Shifting agricultural and ecological context for IPM. Section 2. New diagnostic techniques for IPM. general overview. Use of DNA technologies in diagnostics. Detection of resistant insects and IPM. Pathogen detection and pesticide use. Section 3. Genetic engineering for IPM. General concepts, status, and potential of transgenic plants in IPM. A case history for virus disease resistance. Bt cotton. Herbicide tolerance. Regulation of plant-pesticides: current status. Genetically engineered pathogens of insects for IPM: concepts and status. Sucess and failure of Bt products: colorado potato beetle: a case study. Reassessing autocidal pest control. Section 4. Biological control. Current status: insect, plant diseases, plant pathogens, weeds. Challenges to the commercialization of biological control technologies for IPM. Section 5. Pesticide technology. Pesticides and IPM: concepts and reality. Section 6. Geographical information systems and global positioning systems. Section 7. Information processing and delivery. Weather forecasting for IPM. Information management: past, present, and future. Section 8. Progress and challenges. Delivering IPM. Politics, policy, and IPM.
