Emerging Trends in Biological Control of Phytophagous Insects

Contents 1. Recent trends in increasing the efficiency of biocontrol agents/S. Jayaraj and R.J. Rabindra. 2. Aspects of insect behaviour relevant to biological control of pests and weeds/T. Sankaran. 3. Nematodes in the biological control of insects/M. Shamim Jairajpuri. 4. Ethophysiological studies on Epiricania melanoleuca (fletcher) in relation to parasitisation of Pyrilla perpusilla (walker)/S.S. Krishna and M.P. Misra. 5. Interaction of host plant resistance and natural enemies for the management of bollworm Heliothis armigera on cotton/S. Ramnath and S Uthamasamy. 6. Effect of different dosages on parasitism of Helicoverpa armigera eggs by Trichogramma spp./S.P. Singh and S.K. Jalali. 7. Aphidiids in aphid control/D. Raychaudhuri. 8. Population dynamics behaviour and development of encarsia shafeei a parasitoid of bemisia tobaci/P. Shanthi and K. Natarajan. 9. Chemical ecology in biological control/T.N. Ananthakrishnan. 10. Host nutrition and fitness of Trichogramma chilonis ISHII (Trichogrammatidae hymenoptera)/R. Senrayan S. Murugesan R.S. Annadurai and T.N. Ananthakrishnan. 11. Tritrophic interacttions in Heliothis armigera Hubner and its natural enemy systems a chemical ecological approach (Noctuidae Lepidoptera)/R.S. Annadura S. Murugesan R. Senrayan G. Gurusubramanian and T.N. Anathakrishnan. 12. Insect neuropeptides biological activities and prospects for insect pest management/M. Goluldas. 13. Neuropeptides and their relevance in insect control/Kumuda Sukumar. 14. Microbes and nematodes as enemies of whitegrubs in India/G.K. Veeresh and A.R.V. Kumar. 15. Microbial pathogens associated with forest insect pests in Kerala/M.I. Mohamed Ali R.V. Varma and V.V. Sudheendrakumar. 16. Fungal pathogens for pest suppression future prospects and research/P.C. Sundara Babu. 17. Protoplast fusion between an insecticidal Bacillus thuringiensis var. Kurstaki HD 73 and plant growth promoting rhizobacterial strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens PFCP/E. Sivamani and N. Rajendran. 18. Nuclear polyhedrosis virus of Spodoptera litura an approach for its efficient use/N. Ramakrishnan. 19. Prospects of Baculoviruses in integrated pest management of pulses/V.M. Pawar and U.T. Thombre. 20. Potential of Baculoviruses on Lepidopteran pests in Punjab/G.S. Battu. 21. Genetic improvement of Baculoviruses/R.J. Rabindra. 22. The role of genetic engineering and tissue culture for microbial control of insect pest management in India/K. Narayanan. 23. Genetic engineering of Baculovirus for pest control/S. Mathavan. 24. Augmentation of native natural enemies for the control of sugarcane pests prospects and problems/S. Easwaramoorthy and H. David. 25. Biological control by Augmentation of natural enemies in India retrospect and prospects/T.M. Manjunath. 26. Conservation and augmentation of predatory coccinelelids in biological control of insect pests/P. Baskaran and S. Sankara Subramanian. Concluding session 27. Biocontrol biotechnology and social engineering/M.S. Swaminathan. 28. Molecular approaches for the genetic enhancement of insect resistance in crop plants/H.K. Srivastava. 29. Discussion. Species index. Subject index. Author index. 256 pp.…