New Horizons in Insect Science: Towards Sustainable Pest Management

Hardcover, xxvii + 431 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions/stamps, firmly bound. Boards show a few scratches, faint shelfwear, short creases. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: 1 Insect Taxonomy / Insect Taxonomy: Basic to Barcoding; DNA Barcoding for Identification of Agriculturally Important Insects; 2 Insect Physiology / Changes in Body Melanisation & Not Body Size Affect Mating Success in Drosophila immigrans; Do Size & Age of Female Trichopria Sp. Influence Longevity, Reproductive Performance & Sex Ratio; Impact of Adult Size & Sib, Conspecific & Random Mating in Trichopria Sp. on Progeny Production & Sex Ratio; Importance of Formic Acid in Various Ethological States of Oecophylla smaragdina Fabricius; Metabolites of Pseudomonads: New Avenue of Plant Health Management; Chitinase Expressed as an Inducible Trait in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Schröter P-15; Insect Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Transgenic Crops & its Management; 3 Insect Toxicology / Carboxylesterase & Glutathione-S-Transferase Quantification Mediating Resistance in Populations of Rice Leaf Folder, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis Guenee; Bioassay of Rongbao (Active Ingredients of Calcium Cyanamide) against Housefly Maggots; Nanomaterials: Review of their action & application in pest management & evaluation of DNA-tagged particles; Fumigant Toxicity of Nutmeg Seed Essential Oil (Myristica fragrans Houtt.) on Cowpea Weevil, Callosobruchus maculatus F. (Coleoptera: Bruchidae); 4 Insect Vectors / Identification of Putative Vectors of Weligama Coconut Leaf Wilt Disease, Sri Lanka; Plant Virus Disease Spread through Insect Vectors & their Management; Vectors of Plant Viruses of Crop Plants in Southeast Asia; 5 Insect Molecular Biology / Molecular Approaches for Improvement of Bacillus thuringiensis against Pests; Diapause-Related Gene Expression in Eggs of Multivoltine Bombyx mori L. Silkworm Races; Role of RNA interference in Pest Management; Molecular characterization & Management of shoot & fruit borer Conogethes punctiferalis Guenee (Crambidae: Lepidoptera) Populations infesting Cardamom, Castor & other hosts; 6 Insect Semiochemicals / Use of Insect Pheromones in Vegetable Pest Management: Successes & Struggles; Glimpses of Semiochemical Research applications in Indian Horticulture: Status & Perspectives; 7 Insect Pest Management: Using Host Plant Resistance, Biological Control / Impact of Gall Midge, Orseolia oryzae (Wood-Mason) Infestation on total Phenols, Proline & Indole Acetic Acid in Paddy (Oryza Sativa Linn.) Genotypes; Antixenosis & Antibiosis Component of Rice Resistance to Asian Rice Gall midge, Orseolia oryzae (Wood-Mason); Integrated Management of Insect-induced Reddening in Bt Cotton Hybrids; Inducing Resistance in Sesamum Accessions against Shoot Webber & Capsule Borer, Antigastra catalaunalis Duponchel through Mutation Breeding; Redesigning Research on Crop Resistance to Insects: Experiences with Tomato; Role of parasitoids & predators in management of insect pests; Development, characterization & field assessment of multiple insecticides & high temperature tolerant strain of an egg parasitoid, Trichogramma chilonis Ishii against crop pests; Reproductive Alterations by Wolbachia in Braconid Cotesia vestalis; Influence of Herbivores on the Biology of Chrysoperla carnea Stephens; Status & Management of Three Major Insect Pests of Coconut in Tropics & Subtropics; Area-wide Integrated Pest Management in Pigeonpea; Sustainable management of Tea mosquito bug Helopeltis antonii Signoret (Miridae: Hemiptera) on Cashew; Integrated Pest Management IPM for Reducing Pesticide Residues in Crops & Natural Resources; Biological Consequences of Climate Change on Arthropod Biodiversity & Pest Management; Temperature-Based Phenology Modeling & GIS-Based Risk Mapping: A Tool for Forecasting Potential Changes in the Abundance of Mealybug Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae). …