Pest control / plant diseases

This guide brings together the varied and multiple skills and activities required of pest control practitioners, including biology, chemistry, architecture, engineering, sales, logistics, legal and accounting, presented with a primary emphasis on pest organisms at its core.

Sustainable landscaping involves a set of practices implemented by landscape practitioners to help solve environmental concerns.

A rapidly growing interdisciplinary field, disease ecology merges key ideas from ecology, medicine, genetics, immunology, and epidemiology to study how hosts and pathogens interact in populations, communities, and entire ecosystems.

Weeds are variously defined as plants growing where they are not wanted, plants that interfere with human activity.

This book, by Australia's ladybird beetle specialist, Dr Adam Slipinski, illustrates Australia's diverse and fascinating ladybird beetle fauna - the commoner spotted species and the many others that are striped, glossy, and even very hairy.

This new book on the sustainable management of insect pests in important vegetables offers valuable management strategies in detail.

This book presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the current and potential future state of weed science and research.

Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defence, including defence against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores.

Over the past century, the number of species that have been transported to areas outside their native range has increased steadily.

Diseases of Vegetable Crops in Australia provides a diagnostic guide and a key reference for diseases affecting vegetable crops in Australia.

Insects, being poikilothermic, are among the organisms that are most likely to respond to changes in climate, particularly increased temperatures.

This book examines social processes that have contributed to growing pesticide use, with a particular focus on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations.

This book provides information about the major diseases of horticultural crops in India.

Ecological engineering is about manipulating farm habitats, making them less favourable for pests and more attractive to beneficial insects.

Urban pests are common all over the world.

Vital for a game of cricket or golf and enjoyable when picnicking in the park, turfgrass provides a wide range of aesthetic and recreational benefits.

This volume of Advances in Insect Physiology contains comprehensive interdisciplinary reviews on basic and practical aspects relevant to major target receptors for crucial physiological functions and mechanisms in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, particularly insects.

This book examines, discusses and shares over 30 years' worth of research from the Allerton Project, a research and demonstration farm in the UK which has been carrying out applied interdisciplinary research to explore and explain the need to adapt the management of farmland for environmental protection and to provide public benefits.

Nematodes are the most numerous multi-cellular animals on earth.

Plant-parasitic nematodes are one of multiple causes of soil-related sub-optimal crop performance.

In-depth coverage of ticks, their pathogens and control measures, written by an international collection of experts.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms and biological weapons, from a multitude of perspectives.

Naturally occurring toxins are among the most complicated and lethal in existence.

Throughout Asia, Australia and the Pacific, and increasingly in Africa, the primary horticultural insect pests are fruit flies belonging to the genera Bactrocera, Zeugodacus and Dacus (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacini).

This book collates information on the various aspects of nematode diseases in vegetable crops and their management.

The most numerous of the world's invasive species, rodent pests have a devastating impact on agriculture, food, health and the environment.

This volume is an account of the scientific and social responses made to the discovery of an invasive forest insect -- the emerald ash borer or EAB (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, 1888) -- in North America, that was formally announced in July 2002.

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.

This practical book covers all aspects of the biology of malaria vectors, with notes on the vectors of dengue.

Insect infestations in grains and other stored food and fibre products cause annual losses worth many millions of dollars worldwide.

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.

Biopesticides are certain types of pesticides derived from such natural materials as animals, plants, bacteria, and certain minerals.

Induced resistance offers the prospect of broad spectrum, long-lasting and potentially environmentally-benign disease and pest control in plants.

Braconidae of the Middle East (Hymenoptera): Taxonomy, Distribution, Biology, and Biocontrol Benefits of Parasitoid Wasps provides the latest and most comprehensive knowledge of parasitoid wasp species.

From Mediterranean Europe to Chile and from China to Australia, chestnut cultivation surface has greatly increased globally over the last several decades.

Alternative methods of disease control such as natural products and compounds derived from biological origins, provide an effective alternate to the use of chemical products or a means to minimize their use.

A pocket reference that allows the non-specialist to identify major insect and arachnid pests found in stored cereal grains, grain products and grain legumes.

This up-to-date reference book discusses the effects of climate change on the biodiversity of insect pests.

Insect Pests of Millets: Systematics, Bionomics, and Management focuses on protecting the cultivated cereals that many worldwide populations depend on for food across the semi-arid tropics of the world.

Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification.

Field Crop Arthropod Pests of Economic Importance presents detailed descriptions of the biology and ecology of important arthropod pest of selected global field crops.

This book brings together key features of the toxicology and occupational hazards of pesticides and the way their use is regulated in the main trading regions of the world.

Plant Nematode Biopesticides presents the most current knowledge on various categories of biopesticides used in the management of nematode pests of crops or those that have significant potential as biological control agents.

Our capacity to maintain world food production depends heavily on the thin layer of soil covering the Earth's surface.

This new 2-volume set, Diseases of Field Crops: Diagnosis and Management, helps to fill the need for research on plant diseases, their effects, how they spread, and effective management measures to mitigate their harmful effects.

Neither pest management nor resistance management can occur with only an understanding of pest biology.

Here is an abundance of valuable information on different sensing techniques for fruits and vegetables.

This volume compiles information on different aspects of diseases of commercial crops and their management.

The abundance of insects can change dramatically from generation to generation; these generational changes may occur within a growing season or over a period of years.