Titlebook: Insect Pest Management; Field and Protected A. Rami Horowitz,Isaac Ishaaya Book 2004 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 Bt-Transgenic

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Implementing Integrated Pest Management in Australian Cotton,es (.), aphids (.) and mirids (.)],insecticide resistance in the primary pest (.) and two secondary pests (mites and aphids), escalating costs of production and environmental concerns over off-farm movement of insecticides. To address these issues, a major research effort has focused on reducing dep

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Area-Wide Management of Insects Infesting Cotton,eltwide Cotton Conference Reports, National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN). In the mid-1980s and continuing to the present, cotton entomologists and producer organizations realized the difficulty in managing all of the major complex and persistent cotton insect problems on a local basis (Henneberry an

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Integrated Pest Management for Insect Pests of Cotton in Less Developed Countries,nes of lint grown on 31 million ha (ICAC 2002a). Sixty-three of the world’s 69 significant producer countries are LDCs; 4 in central America, 8 in South America, 3 in North Africa, 12 in West Africa, 12 in eastern and southern Africa, 7 in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), 11 in Asia, 6

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Advances in Insect Pest Management of Oilseed Rape in Europe,ally, frequently without regard to pest incidence rather than according to threshold values of the pest population. This leads to over-use of pesticides which reduces the economic competitiveness of the crop and threatens biological diversity. Pesticides may also kill the natural agents of biologica

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Physical Control in Greenhouses and Field Crops,nments have been banning insecticides once thought to be crucial for pest control of food crops. Although this may seem absurd in the face of efforts to assuage world hunger, for the most part these insecticides have proven to cause intolerable environmental damage, or the insect pests they once con

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Advances in Insect Pest Management of Oilseed Rape in Europe,l control, a natural resource of great potential benefit to the grower. In this chapter, I review recent advances in our knowledge of the biology and synecology of these pests and their natural enemies and focus on new approaches to their management, based on this knowledge.