Insect Resistance Management: Biology, Economics, and Prediction - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0128237872 ISBN 13: 9780128237878

Publisher: Academic Press, 2022

Synopsis

The third edition of Insect Resistance Management: Biology, Economics, and Prediction expands coverage by including three new chapters on African agriculture, genetic control of pests, and fitness costs of resistance. All remaining chapters have been updated to cover key scientific findings published since 2013. The coauthors have expertise in evolutionary biology, ecology, economics, epizootiology, statistics, modeling, IPM, and genetics.

The original themes demonstrating the importance of economics, IPM, pest behavior, and the behavior of humans implementing insect resistance management (IRM) are still relevant. Entomologists and others developing experiments, models, regulations, or public policy will benefit from this book that avoids reliance on dogma by analyzing and synthesizing knowledge about a wide variety of species, landscapes, and stakeholder problems.

• Provides insights from the history of IRM to the latest science
• Includes contributions from experts on ecological aspects of IRM, molecular and population genetics, economics, and IRM social issues
• Encourages scientists and stakeholders to implement and coordinate strategies based on local and species-specific conditions

About this title

About the Authors

Dr. David W. Onstad has been an entomologist for over 40 years focusing on insect resistance management, insect epizootiology, economics of integrated pest management, and ecological modeling. He was elected fellow of the Entomological Society of America in 2022. Since retiring after 26 years as a professor at the University of Illinois, he has been the lead mathematical modeler for DuPont Pioneer/CortevaAgriscience in support of data-driven strategic decision-making, assessing resistance risks, and product registration and development of transgenic insecticidal crops.

Dr. Lisa Knolhoff works in the field of agricultural biotechnology and has over 20 years of experience with arthropod pests of agricultural and medical importance. Her background includes insect behavior, genetics, and evolution, and she has worked in academia, private industry, and government. She has focused on insect adaptation to cropping practices, alternative host plants, and transgenic insecticidal crops. She reviews potential impacts of biotechnology in agriculture and has served as an invited consultant on topics related to gene drives and genetically engineered organisms.

Dr. Knolhoff contributed to this volume in a personal capacity. The views expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the United States Department of Agriculture, its agencies, or the government of the United States of America.

From the Back Cover

Insect Resistance Management: Biology, Economics, and Prediction, Third Edition offers a foundational basis for understanding pest biology, a necessity for working with pest management and resistance management. For years, entomologists have understood that, with their use of economic thresholds, a minimal use of economics is necessary for proper integrated pest management (IPM); meanwhile, insect resistance management, or IRM, is even more complicated and dependent on the understanding and use of socioeconomic factors. This latest edition of Insect Resistance Management addresses these issues and much more.

This book includes a new chapter focusing on resistance mechanisms related to plant-incorporated toxins and heavily expanded revisions of several existing chapters. Authors in this edition include professors at major universities, leaders in the chemical and seed industry, evolutionary biologists and active IRM practitioners. This revision also contains more information about IRM outside North America, and a modeling chapter contains a large new section on uncertainty analysis, a subject recently emphasized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The final chapter contains a section on insecticidal seed treatments.

Insect Resistance Management: Biology, Economics, and Prediction, Third Edition is an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners in entomology and IRM work particularly. Graduate students in entomology courses, as well as applied ecology and agricultural economics researchers, may also find this latest edition useful and relevant.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128237872
• ISBN 13: 9780128237878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 580
• Editor: Onstad David W., Knolhoff Lisa M.