Insecticides: Advances in Integrated Pest Management (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789533077802)

This book contains 30 Chapters divided into 5 Sections. Section A covers integrated pest management, alternative insect control strategies, ecological impact of insecticides as well as pesticides and drugs of forensic interest. Section B is dedicated to chemical control and health risks, applications for insecticides, metabolism of pesticides by human cytochrome p450, etc. Section C provides biochemical analyses of action of chlorfluazuron, pest control effects on seed yield, chemical ecology, quality control, development of ideal insecticide, insecticide resistance, etc. Section D reviews current analytical methods, electroanalysis of insecticides, insecticide activity and secondary metabolites. Section E provides data contributing to better understanding of biological control through Bacillus sphaericus and B. thuringiensis, entomopathogenic nematodes insecticides, vector-borne disease, etc. The subject matter in this book should attract the reader's concern to support rational decisions regarding the use of pesticides.

Author: Farzana Khan Perveen
ISBN-10: 9533077808
ISBN-13: 9789533077802
Publisher: Intechopen
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2012
Pages: 726
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.96lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.50d