Biocontrol Potential and its Exploitation in Sustainable Agriculture - Volume 2: Insect Pests (Hardcover)

Plant based Biotechnology has come to represent a means of mitigating the problems of global food security in the twenty first century. Products and processes in agriculture are increasingly becoming linked to science and cutting edge technology, to enable the engineering of what are in effect, designer plants. One of the most successful, non chemical approaches to pest management and disease control, which seeks a solution in terms of using living organisms to regulate the incidence of pests and and pathogens, providing a `natural control' while still maintaining the biological balance with the ecosystem. This volume, describes the various biological agents used to control insect pests of a variety of crops. Readers may also be interested in Volume 1: Crop diseases, Weeds and Nematodes, published in December 2000, ISBN 0-306-46460-8.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2001
First published:	2001
Editors:	Rajeev K. Upadhyay • K.G. Mukerji • B.P. Chamola
Dimensions:	248 x 165 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	421
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-46587-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > General Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Pest control > General
LSN:	0-306-46587-6
Barcode:	9780306465871

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