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Biotic stress and yield loss [electronic resource] / edited by Robert K.D. Peterson and Leon G. Higley.

Contributor(s): Peterson, Robert K. D | Higley, Leon GMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2001Description: 1 online resource (261 p.) : illISBN: 6610652864 (electronic bk.); 9786610652860 (electronic bk.); 1420040758 (electronic bk.); 9781420040753; 1420040758Subject(s): Agricultural pests | Crop losses | Crops -- Ecology | AgricultureGenre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: Biotic stress and yield loss.DDC classification: 632/.6 LOC classification: SB601 | .B47 2000Online resources: Ebook Library | ebrary | MyiLibrary | MyiLibrary, Table of contents
Contents:
Front Cover; Preface; Editors; Contributors; Contents; 1. Illuminating the Black Box: The Relationship Between Injury and Yield; 2. Yield Loss and Pest Management; 3. Techniques for Evaluating Yield Loss from Insects; 4. Yield Loss of Field Corn from Insects; 5. Phenological Disruption and Yield Loss from Insects; 6. Photosynthesis, Yield Loss, and Injury Guilds; 7. The Influence of Cultivar and Plant Architecture on Yield Loss; 8. Drought Stress, Insects, and Yield Loss; 9. The Impact of Herbivory on Plants: Yield, Fitness, and Population Dynamics
Summary: This work utilizes a physiologically-based approach to provide a common basis for considering and discussing biotic stress. It emphasizes the understandings of yield loss in the major pest science disciplines of etomology, weed science and pathology, and covers yeild loss to insect herbivores.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Cover; Preface; Editors; Contributors; Contents; 1. Illuminating the Black Box: The Relationship Between Injury and Yield; 2. Yield Loss and Pest Management; 3. Techniques for Evaluating Yield Loss from Insects; 4. Yield Loss of Field Corn from Insects; 5. Phenological Disruption and Yield Loss from Insects; 6. Photosynthesis, Yield Loss, and Injury Guilds; 7. The Influence of Cultivar and Plant Architecture on Yield Loss; 8. Drought Stress, Insects, and Yield Loss; 9. The Impact of Herbivory on Plants: Yield, Fitness, and Population Dynamics

This work utilizes a physiologically-based approach to provide a common basis for considering and discussing biotic stress. It emphasizes the understandings of yield loss in the major pest science disciplines of etomology, weed science and pathology, and covers yeild loss to insect herbivores.

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