Pests & Diseases Collection: Advances in Understanding and Managing Insect Pests, Diseases, Weeds and Other Biotic Threats - ResearchAndMarkets.com

The "Pests & Diseases Collection" book has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This is a new thematic database of chapters bring you comprehensive reviews of the latest research in crop science as 'bite-sized' pieces of content and will enable you to efficiently access what's really going on in your specialist subject.

This collection includes 209 chapters that review advances in understanding and managing insect pests, diseases, weeds and other biotic threats to crop cultivation, including ways of improving integrated pest management (IPM) and integrated disease management.

Some key topics covered include:

• Advances in integrated pest management (IPM) in citrus cultivation
• Advances in understanding the ecology of citrus insect pests
• Agroecosystem models for delivering ecosystem services
• Improving crop pest/disease modeling
• Advances in understanding and managing fungal and other diseases of forest trees
• Advances in understanding and managing insect pests of forest trees
• Advances in augmentative biological control in integrated pest management
• Advances in breeding crops resistant to insect pests: rice as a paradigm
• Advances in classical biological control to support IPM of perennial agricultural crops
• Advances in conservation biological control and habitat management for IPM
• Advances in microbial control in integrated pest management: entomopathogenic fungi
• Integrated pest management (IPM) of nematodes
• Integrated pest management of mites
• Monitoring and minimizing health risks related to pesticides
• Peptide-based biopesticides
• Plant-insect interactions, host-plant resistance, and integrated pest management
• Robot-enhanced insect pest control: reality or fantasy?
• Apple mosaic virus: biology, epidemiology and detection
• Apple replant disease: causes and management
• Understanding and monitoring diseases of vegetables
• Use of biocontrol agents in fruit tree disease management
• Integrated disease management in tree nut cultivation
• Optimizing disease management in fruit cultivation
• Optimizing pest management in fruit cultivation
• Use of agricultural robots in weed management and control
• Modelling the environmental impacts of pesticides in agriculture
• Commercial products promoting plant health in African agriculture
• Conserving and exploiting biodiversity in crop cultivation in sub-Saharan Africa
• Disease surveillance, diagnostics and germplasm health in crop protection
• Improving plant health in sub-Saharan Africa: conclusions and future challenges
• Introduction: meeting challenges in plant health in sub-Saharan Africa
• Key challenges in plant health in sub-Saharan Africa: stakeholder priorities
• Making integrated pest management (IPM) work in sub-Saharan Africa
• Viruses affecting African crops and their vectors
• Trends in exploring wheat and barley germplasm for novel disease resistance traits
• Bacterial diseases affecting potatoes
• Fungal diseases affecting potato storage
• Nematode pests of potatoes
• Non-infectious disorders affecting potatoes
• Potato pest management with specific reference to the Pacific Northwest (USA)
• Viruses affecting potatoes
• Advances in pest- and disease-resistant cocoa varieties
• Cacao diseases: vascular-streak dieback
• Cocoa diseases: witches' broom
• Integrated weed management in sugarcane cultivation
• Progress in understanding and managing insect pests affecting sugarcane
• Invasive weed species and their effects
• Key issues and challenges of integrated weed management
• Site-specific weed management
• Control of rodent pests in maize cultivation: the case of Africa
• Economically important insect pests of maize
• Nematodes associated with maize
• Advances in control of wheat rust
• Impact of climate change on wheat insect pests: current knowledge and future trends
• Integrated pest management in wheat cultivation
• Integrated weed management in tomato cultivation
• Integrated weed management in wheat cultivation
• Integrated wheat disease management
• Pre- and postharvest fungal apple diseases
• Recent molecular technologies for tackling wheat diseases
• Wheat diseases: an overview

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