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INSECT RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT
Insect Resistance Management
Biology, Economics, and Prediction
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Edited By
David W, Onstad, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, National Soybean Research Center, University of Illinois

Description
Insects, mites, and ticks have a long history of evolving resistance to pesticides, host-plant resistance, crop rotation, pathogens, and parasitoids. Insect resistance management (IRM) is the scientific approach to preventing or delaying pest evolution and its negative impacts on agriculture, public health, and veterinary issues. This book provides entomologists, pest management practitioners, developers of new technologies, and regulators with information about the many kinds of pest resistance including behavioral and phenological resistance. Abstract concepts and various case studies provide the reader with the biological and economic knowledge required to manage resistance. No other source has the breadth of coverage of this book: genomics to economics, transgenic insecticidal crops, insecticides, and other pest management tactics such as crop rotation. Dr. David W. Onstad and a team of experts illustrate how IRM becomes efficient, effective and socially acceptable when local, social and economic aspects of the system are considered. Historical lessons are highlighted with new perspectives emphasized, so that future research and management may be informed by past experience, but not constrained by it.

Audience
Pest control, crop science, agricultural economics researchers and scientists; entomologists; agricultural engineers; plant scientists; graduate-level students

Contents
Major Issues in Insect Resistance Management; Valuing Pest Susceptibility to Control; Insecticide Resistance in the Post-Genomics Era; Complexities of Population; Genetics; Adapting Insect Resistance Management Programs to Local Needs; Negative Cross-Resistance: Past, Present, and Future Potential; Resistance by Ectoparasites;Insect Resistance to Crop Rotation; Arthropod Resistance to Crops; The Role of the Environment in IRM for Transgenic Insecticidal; Insect Resistance Management: Adoption and Compliance; Modeling for Prediction and Risk Assessment; Monitoring Resistance; The Future of Insect Resistance Management

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 320 pages, publication date: OCT-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-373858-5
ISBN-10: 0-12-373858-X
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS

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