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Basic and Applied Aspects of Biopesticides

Editors:

  1. K. Sahayaraj

    1. Department of Zoology, Crop Protection, Research Centre, St. Xavier's College, Palayamkottai, India

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  • The book is based on the research work carried out by eminent researchers across the world
  • State-of-the-art advances in the field of plant biopesticides have been included
  • Includes two exclusive chapters on bioinformatics in biopesticides and application equipments
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Microbials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Bacillus and Biopesticides in Control of Phytonematodes

      • Diouneia Lisiane Berlitz, Neiva Knaak, Maximiano Correa Cassal, Lidia Mariana Fiuza
      Pages 3-16

    4. Role of Entomopathogenic Fungus in Pest Management

      • J. Alice R. P. Sujeetha, K. Sahayaraj
      Pages 31-46

    5. Microbial Viral Insecticides

      • Aparna S. Kalawate
      Pages 47-68

    7. Microbial Elicitors to Induce Immunity for Plant Disease Control in Chilli and Tomato

      • Kasem Soytong, Somdej Kanokmedhakul, Kanchalika Rattanacherdchai, Chamaiporn Charoenporn
      Pages 99-125

  3. Botanicals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Plant Essential Oils and Pest Management

      • Saeid Moharramipour, Maryam Negahban
      Pages 129-153

  4. Natural Enemies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    6. Spiders as Potential Ecofriendly Predators Against Pests

      • Y. Norma-Rashid, Wan Mohammad Azizi Wan Zainudin, M. N. Dzulhelmi, Noraina Masduki
      Pages 245-254

  5. Semio-Chemicals and Biotechnology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 287-287
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About this book

Currently, the major challenge of humanity is focused on population growth through agricultural production in order to meet the demand for food. The food crunch is mainly due to pest and disease. Traditional methods, synthetic insecticides and microbicides cause health hazards to human beings, domestic animals and also affect our immediate environments. Serious concerns were implemented by both developing and developed countries as Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Bio-intensive Integrated Pest Management (BIPM) systems where biopesticides play an important role worldwide. The available books are limited to particular aspects of biopesticides. Hence, it is imperative to bring out a holistic documentation which will provide the reader information on all aspects of biopesticides. The book consists of five sections namely microbials, botanicals, natural enemies semio- chemicals and biotechnology and equipments, bioinformatics tools and IPM. In Section I, microbial deals with utilization of Bacillus in control of phytonematodes; biological control of pest and diseases with fluorescent pseudomonads, entomopathogenic fungus and entomopathogenic nematodes in pest management, microbial viral insecticides and microbial elicitors to induce immunity for plant disease control in chilli and tomato. Importance of plant essential oils, botanicals in endocrine disruption, relevance of botanicals and use of plant volatile on pest management has been discussed in Section II. Importance and role of reduviidae, weaver ants, ground beetles, Odonatas, spiders in biological control has been discussed in Section III. In addition, genetic improvement of biocontrol agents for sustainable pest management has also been highlighted. In Section IV, classical practices and pheromone, kairomonal enhancement to natural enemies and use of transgenic plants in insect control are highlighted. Equipment and their application methodologies for application of biopesticides; relevance ofbioinformatics in biopesticides management; pest management of soybean, bio fouling and eco friendly antifoulants have been highlighted in Section V. Each chapter has objectives and conclusion along with recommendations.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Zoology, Crop Protection, Research Centre, St. Xavier's College, Palayamkottai, India

    K. Sahayaraj

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Dr. K. Sahayaraj is Associate Professor and Director of Crop Protection Research Centre at St. Xavier’s College affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu, India. He has been awarded University Fifth Rank in M.Sc. by Madurai Kamaraj University in 1987. He has been teaching Zoology including Entomology to undergraduate and post-graduate students for more than 21 years. Dr. Sahayaraj has published four books and one proceeding on Ecofriendly Insect Pest Management. He has more than 173 publications, including original research papers, book chapters and popular articles in insect ecology, behavior, biology and physiology, as well as numerous papers on biological control efficacy of reduviidae, botanicals and fungal pathogens. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Sahayaraj’s research efforts have been dedicated to multidisciplinary, integrated approaches in understanding how reduviidae distribute and diversify in various ecosystems, and how their adaptive characters can be applied to pest management, especially through biointensive pest management. He has operated 10 research projects funded by national (DST, DBT, CSIR, MOEs) and international (IFS) funding agencies, and now he has been operating MEFs funded project. Recently, he has been publishing an international journal, namely Journal of Biopesticides (ISSN 0976-0341X).
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