Ecofriendly pest management for food security / edited by Omkar,
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TextPublisher: Amsterdam ; Boston ; Elsevier/AP, Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, 2016Description: xii, 750 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780128032657; 0128032650Subject(s): Pests -- Control -- Environmental aspects | Food security | Insect pests -- Biological control | Beneficial insects | Biological pest control agents
| Agricultural biotechnology | Agricultural biotechnology | Beneficial insects | Biological pest control agents | Food security | Insect pests -- Biological control | Pests -- Control -- Environmental aspectsDDC classification: 632.96 LOC classification: SB950 | .E264 2016| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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GKVK Library | 632.96 OMK (Browse shelf) | Not for loan | 144774 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Insects and pests / T.P. Rajendran and Devendra Singh -- Biocontrol of insect pests / Omkar, and Bhupendra Kumar -- Aphids and their biocontrol / Rajendra Singh and Garima Singh -- Parasitoids / M. Kalyanasundaram and I. Merlin Kamala -- Trichogrammatids / S.K. Jalali, Prashanth Mohanrah, and B.L. Lakshmi -- Anthocorid predators / Chandish R. Ballal and Kazutaka Yamada -- Reduviid predators / Dunston P. Ambrose and A. Ganesh Kumar -- Syrphid flies (the hovering agents) / Omkar, and Geetanjali Mishra -- Ladybird beetles / Omkar, and Ahmad Pervez -- Chrysopids / N. Dhandapani, Pallavi Sarkar, and Geetanjali Mishra -- Mite predators / Yaghoub Fathipour and Bahador Maleknia -- Entomopathogenic nematodes / S. Subramanian and M. Muthulakshmi -- Insect viruses / Vivek Prasad and Shalini Srivastava -- Bacillus thuringiensis / G. Keshavareddy and A.R.V. Kumar -- Entomopathogenic fungi / Kaushal K. Sinha, Ajoy Kr. Choudhary, and Priyanka Kumari -- Plant monoterpenoids (prospective pesticides) / Arun K. Tripathi and Shikha Mishra -- Antifeedant phytochemicals in insect management (so close yet so far) / Opender Koul -- Neem products / Rashmi Roychoudhury -- Semiochemicals / N. Bakthavatsalam -- Insect hormones (as pesticides) / S. Subramanian and K. Shankarganesh -- Integrated pest management / P. Karuppuchamy and Sheela Venugopal -- Biotechnological approaches / Arun K. Tripathi and Shikha Mishra -- GMO and food security / Mala Trivedi, Rachana Singh, Manish Shukla, and Rajesh K. Tiwari.
"Ecofriendly Pest Management for Food Security explores the broad range of opportunities and challenges afforded by integrated pest management (IPM) systems."--
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