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This book is the first to integrate biological control into a
conceptual framework - ecostacking - uniting all aspects of
biological control and ecosystem services. In 2018 the "First
International Congress of Biological Control" was organised and
held in Beijing, China. The chapters highlight some of the
achievements presented at the congress, worldwide. Of particular
significance are the numerous contributions by Chinese researchers
illustrating the remarkable progress made on developing and
adopting multiple biological control strategies over vast
agricultural areas, largely replacing chemical pesticides for
sustainable agricultural and horticultural production. In many
parts of the world including Europe, fragmented research based on
short-term funding has been unable to answer to the needs to
develop sustainable long-term solutions to crop protection, while
colleagues in China have been successful in implementing programs
that exemplify the power of the ecostacking approach. Key
contributions by European and US specialists combined with the
expertise and experiences by the Chinese contributors comprise the
building blocks for the integration of biological control
approaches into the overall frame of ecostacking. This book will
lead the way to a broader, integrated adoption of biological
control techniques in sustainable pest, disease and weed management
supporting also the functioning of other key ecosystem services.
Chapter 2 of this book isavailable open access under a CC BY 4.0
license at link.springer.com
This book is the first to integrate biological control into a
conceptual framework - ecostacking - uniting all aspects of
biological control and ecosystem services. In 2018 the "First
International Congress of Biological Control" was organised and
held in Beijing, China. The chapters highlight some of the
achievements presented at the congress, worldwide. Of particular
significance are the numerous contributions by Chinese researchers
illustrating the remarkable progress made on developing and
adopting multiple biological control strategies over vast
agricultural areas, largely replacing chemical pesticides for
sustainable agricultural and horticultural production. In many
parts of the world including Europe, fragmented research based on
short-term funding has been unable to answer to the needs to
develop sustainable long-term solutions to crop protection, while
colleagues in China have been successful in implementing programs
that exemplify the power of the ecostacking approach. Key
contributions by European and US specialists combined with the
expertise and experiences by the Chinese contributors comprise the
building blocks for the integration of biological control
approaches into the overall frame of ecostacking. This book will
lead the way to a broader, integrated adoption of biological
control techniques in sustainable pest, disease and weed management
supporting also the functioning of other key ecosystem services.
Chapter 2 of this book isavailable open access under a CC BY 4.0
license at link.springer.com
This fully revised and updated second edition of Insect Pests of
Potato now includes an opening section with a basic overview of
agronomic and economic issues as they relate to potato production.
It also features a new section that reviews potato production, as
well as problems caused by insect pests and solutions to these
problems, in all major potato-growing regions of the world.
Further, a new section discusses theoretical foundations of potato
pest management and includes chapters on ecological theory,
evolutionary theory, and a case study on their applications to
elucidate differences between Eastern and Western populations of
Colorado potato beetle in North America. There is also a new
chapter on the foundations of integrated pest management and their
applications in controlling insect pests. The sections on the
biology of main pests and on control methods now feature the latest
information, including emphasis on recent advances in molecular
biology and genomics. Information on the use of dsRNA technology
for pest control is also included, as are new chapters on potato
ladybirds and on hemipterous pests other than aphids and psyllids.
This second edition provides improved integration and logical
connections among chapters and expanded geographic scope of
coverage making it the ideal reference on the topic.
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria use Cry proteins to kill their
insect larval hosts. The expression of certain Cry toxins in
transgenic crops has been widely used to achieve efficient control
of insect pests. This book describes the use of Bt crops and the
emerging problem of resistance, recent progress in understanding
the mechanism of action of Bt toxins, different resistance
mechanisms and strategies to cope with resistance in the field. It
describes resistant insects found in the field in different
countries, particularly in the developing world, and ways to
counter resistance such as gene stalking, refuges, modified toxins
and gene discovery of novel toxins with different mode of action.
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