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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Arthropod resistant crops reduce pesticide pollution, alleviate hunger and improve human nutrition. Plant Resistance to Arthropods - Molecular and Conventional Approaches synthesizes new information about the environmental advantages of plant resistance, transgenic resistance, the molecular bases of resistance, and the use of molecular markers to map resistance genes. Readers are presented in-depth descriptions of techniques to quantify resistance, factors affecting resistance expression, and the deployment of resistance genes. New information about gene-for-gene interactions between resistant plants and arthropod biotypes is discussed along with the recent examples of using arthropod resistant plants in integrated pest management systems.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
C. Michael Smith has served in research; teaching and administrative positions at Louisiana State University, the University of Idaho and Kansas State University, where he is presently a Professor of Entomology. He has conducted research on arthropod resistance in forages, soybean, rice and wheat for over 30 years, and is currently studying constitutive and expressed genes involved in cereal resistance to aphids. In 2002, he served as a Fulbright Lecturer and Research Scholar at the Czech Agricultural University in Prague.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Resistance to Arthropods
Book Subtitle: Molecular and Conventional Approaches
Editors: C. Michael Smith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3702-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3701-6Published: 24 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6934-4Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3702-3Published: 16 January 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 426
Topics: Agriculture, Plant Sciences, Zoology, Invertebrates, Life Sciences, general