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Title Biotechnology and integrated pest management / edited by Gabrielle J. Persley.

Imprint Oxon, UK : CAB International, c1996.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  632.96 B524    ---  Available
Description xvi, 475 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Biotechnology in agriculture series ; 15
Biotechnology in agriculture series ; 15.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-460) and index.
Contents Needs and opportunities / Max J. Whitten, Richard A. Jefferson and David Dall -- Integrated pest management and biotechnology : an analysis of their potential for integration / Jeff Waage -- Integrated pest management in developing countries / Lim Guan Soon -- Integrated pest management in rice / Peter E. Kenmore -- Soybean in Brazil / Flavio Moscardi and D. R. Sosa-Gomez -- India : an overview / Nandini V. Katre -- Cassava and cowpea in Africa / Hans R. Herren -- Biological products for integrated pest management / Pamela Marrone -- Novel arthropod biological control agents / Marjorie A. Hoy -- Marker-assisted plant breeding / Rebecca J. Nelson -- Modern plant breeding : an overview / Ivan W. Buddenhagen -- Insect-resistant crop plants / David A. Fischhoff -- Cotton in Australia / W. James Peacock, D. J. Llewellyn and G. P. Fitt -- Virus-resistant transgenic plants / Roger N. Beachy -- Can we slow adaptation by pests to insect transgenic crops? / Richard T. Roush -- Deploying pesticidal engineered crops in developing countries / Fred Gould -- New diagnostics / Mark E. Whalon -- Virus/vector control / Michael E. Irwin and Lowell R. Nault -- Insect vector control / Elizabeth Evans -- Insect vectors of human diseases / Christopher F. Curtis -- Molecular genetics / Veronica Rodrigues and K. VijayRaghavan -- View from industry / Ben Miflin -- Summary and future directions / Gabrielle J. Persley, Gary Toenniessen and Peter Dart.
Subject Agricultural pests -- Integrated control.
Agricultural biotechnology.
Added Author Persley, G. J.
ISBN 0851989306

 
    
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