New Horizons in Insect Science: Towards Sustainable Pest Management

Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy

ISBN 10: 8132220889 / ISBN 13: 9788132220886

Published by Springer, 2015

About this Item

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).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Horizons in Insect Science: Towards Sustainable Pest Management
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8132220889
• ISBN 13: 9788132220886
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Insect science is fast changing as insects are evolving to a plethora of newer chemical molecules, climate change, management tactics and transformation of the landscapes. Through the International Conference, the editors have attempted to gather together newer aspects of Insect Sciences like Insect Taxonomy, DNA Barcoding, Physiology, Toxicology, Vectors and their Management, Molecular Biology, RNA interference in Pest Management, Semiochemicals and Pest Management using Host Plant Resistance and Biological Control appropriated especially for the developing world. Both basic and applied aspects of insect science have been included to stimulate comprehensive studies on insect science. The book not only deals with insect science but also environmental and ecological aspects in the hope that the book will be of immense use to students, researchers, extension workers, planners, administrators, farmers and other end users. The Chapters on diversified aspects of Insect Science are contributed by leading scientists for the coming 21^st century in which entomology is witnessing a dramatic advancement in management of pests through in-depth investigations. The dimensions of Insect Science covered in the book are pest management approaches that can be adopted worldwide with ascent on sustainability.

About the Author

Dr. A. K. Chakravarthy is the Professor, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore. With over three decades of experience of teaching, research and extension, Dr. Chakravarthy has been the investigator for over 30 research projects and has guided more than 20 students for post graduation. A Ph.D. from Punjab Agricultural University and Fellow from IARI, New Delhi. He is a member of several National and International scientific academia, an advisor, a panelist, a referee, reviewer, editor and is associated with publication of thirty national and international journals worldwide. A field oriented, widely travelled biologist, he is actively working on novel approaches in Integrated Pest Management, Host Plant Interaction, Vertebrate Pest Management, Biodiversity and environmental conservation issues.