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Herbicide Classes in Development

Mode of Action, Targets, Genetic Engineering, Chemistry

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Editors:
  1. Peter Böger

    1. Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

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  2. Ko Wakabayashi

    1. Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Tamagawa University, Machida-shi, Tokyo, Japan

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  3. Kenji Hirai

    1. Sagami Chemical Research Center, Ayase Kanagawa, Japan

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  • Competent overview on the most recently developed active compounds that led to very successful new herbicides
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXI
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  2. Acetolactate Synthase Inhibitors

    • Tsutomu Shimizu, Ishizue Nakayama, Kozo Nagayama, Takeshige Miyazawa, Yukio Nezu
    Pages 1-41

  3. Bleaching Herbicides: Action Mechanism in Carotenoid Biosynthesis, Structural Requirements and Engineering of Resistance

    • Gerhard Sandmann
    Pages 43-57

  4. Inhibitors of Aromatic Amino Acid Biosynthesis (Glyphosate)

    • Donald R. Geiger, Mark A. Fuchs
    Pages 59-85

  5. Inhibitors of Glutamine Synthetase

    • Guenter Donn, Helmut Köcher
    Pages 87-101

  6. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase Inhibitors

    • Malcolm D. Devine
    Pages 103-113

  7. Inhibitors of Biosynthesis of Very-Long-Chain Fatty Acids

    • Peter Böger, Bernd Matthes
    Pages 115-137

  8. Cellulose Biosynthesis Inhibitor Herbicides

    • Kevin C. Vaughn
    Pages 139-150

  9. Inhibitors of Protoporphyrinogen Oxidase: A Brief Update

    • Hiroshi Matsumoto
    Pages 151-161

  10. Genetic Engineering of Herbicide-Resistant Plants

    • Mamoru Horikoshi
    Pages 163-177

  11. Major Synthetic Routes for Modern Herbicide Classes and Agrochemical Characteristics

    • Kenji Hirai, Atsushi Uchida, Ryuta Ohno
    Pages 179-289

  12. Diverse Response of Plants Towards Chiral Phytotoxic Chemicals

    • Hiroyoshi Omokawa
    Pages 291-318

  13. Transcuticular Penetration of Foliar-Applied Pesticides — Its Analysis by a Logistic-Kinetic Penetration Model

    • Tadakazu Watanabe
    Pages 319-340

  14. Structure-Activity Correlation of Very Long-Chain Fatty Acid Biosynthesis Inhibitors

    • Ko Wakabayashi, Peter Böger
    Pages 341-357

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 359-364
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About this book

Chemical pest control is in use in practically every country in the world since agrochemicals play a decisive role in ensuring food supply and protection against damage by pests, insects and pathogenic fungi. Particularly in the half­ century since World War II, food production has risen dramatically in most parts of the world. In the last 20 years, the yield of major crops has roughly doubled in Western agriculture and there is still the potential for further achievements, particularly in the developing countries. The world's cereal and rice production, now more than 2 billion tons/year, has to increase by 2. 4% annually to cope with the rising food demand caused mainly by the growing population and improvement of living standards in most of the developing countries. Such a demand for food has to be achieved by higher yields from the restricted arable land already in use. Global farm­ land resources are about 1. 4 billion ha, of which 1. 2 billion ha is cultivated with major crops. Experts agree that a future substantial addition of new produc­ tive areas is unlikely. Those with a high yield potential are already in use; new fields with a lower output may possibly be obtained by cultivation of arid or cold areas. More recently, new areas of large-scale farmland have been devel­ oped in tropical regions of Latin America, primarily in Argentina and Brazil, at the cost of the destruction of tropical rain forest.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

    Peter Böger

  • Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Tamagawa University, Machida-shi, Tokyo, Japan

    Ko Wakabayashi

  • Sagami Chemical Research Center, Ayase Kanagawa, Japan

    Kenji Hirai

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Herbicide Classes in Development

  • Book Subtitle: Mode of Action, Targets, Genetic Engineering, Chemistry

  • Editors: Peter Böger, Ko Wakabayashi, Kenji Hirai

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59416-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-43147-3Published: 07 August 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-63972-2Published: 23 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-59416-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 364

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Agriculture, Plant Sciences, Ecotoxicology, Soil Science & Conservation, Biochemistry, general

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