Fundamentals of Pesticide Resistance

About this book

Graduate level text synthesising the views of entomology, plant pathology, and agriculture so that each field might realise the importance of other fields on the subject of biological resistance.

Contents

Part 1 The resistance problem and status: perspectives on pesticide resistance; history and scope of pesticide resistance; detection and monitoring of resistance. Part 2 Genetic control of resistance: genetic mechanisms; inheritance of major resistance mechanisms. Part 3 Biochemical, physiological and behavioural resistance mechanisms: target site resistance; metabolic resistance; resistance due to modified movement and compartmentation; behaviour and phenology as factors in resistance; interactions between resistance mechanisms. Part 4 Dynamics of resistance: factors influencing the appearance and stability of resistance; modelling resistance. Part 5 : anti-resistance strategies; uses of resistance. Part 6 Epilogue: summary, conclusion and prospects for the future. Appendices: common name and chemical names of pesticides; Latin and common names of organisms.

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