Crop Protection

The Official Journal of the International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences

The Editors of Crop Protection especially welcome papers describing an interdisciplinary approach showing how different control strategies can be integrated into practical pest management programs, covering high and low input agricultural systems worldwide. Crop Protection particularly emphasizes the practical aspects of control in the field and for protected crops, and includes work which may lead in the near future to more effective control. The journal does not duplicate the many existing excellent biological science journals, which deal mainly with the more fundamental aspects of plant pathology, applied zoology and weed science. Crop Protection covers all practical aspects of pest, disease and weed control, including the following topics:

Abiotic damage

Agronomic control methods

Assessment of pest and disease damage

Molecular methods for the detection and assessment of pests and diseases

Biological control

Biorational pesticides

Control of animal pests of world crops

Control of diseases of crop plants caused by microorganisms

Control of weeds and integrated management

Economic considerations

Effects of plant growth regulators

Environmental benefits of reduced pesticide use

Environmental effects of pesticides

Epidemiology of pests and diseases in relation to control

GM Crops, and genetic engineering applications

Importance and control of postharvest crop losses

Integrated control

Interrelationships and compatibility among different control strategies

Invasive species as they relate to implications for crop protection

Pesticide application methods

Pest management

Phytobiomes for pest and disease control

Resistance management

Sampling and monitoring schemes for diseases, nematodes, pests and weeds.

The editors of Crop Protection invite workers concerned with pest, disease and weed control to submit suitable contributions on any topic falling within the aims and scope of the journal.