Overview
- This volume is expected to be of great help to post-graduate students and researchers in plant protection
- Information provided is up-to-date and fully focused on applied aspects
- Volume is compiled with the contribution of legend workers in insect pest management
Part of the book series: Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection (SUPP)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This Volume comprises 14 chapters in an attempt to provide the reader with available information on safe and effective use of entomopathogens. Chapters in this book dealing with soil-borne entomopathogens and their phylogeny also provide a review on most updated information of their isolation and molecular identification. Employing fungal pathogens in biological control programmes plays a key role, and conidial thermotolerance and oxidative stress are examined in separate chapters. Entomopathogenic bacteria are able to kill their hosts quickly. An important contribution concerns informations provided upon bacterial cytotoxic factors on insect haemocytes. Nematodes are biological control agents safe to the environment. The information with respect to their direct and indirect effects on non-target organisms is provided. Viruses as highly specific, virulent candidates for use as biological insecticides are safe to non-target species. A separate chapter on the role of granuloviruses inIPM contributes a wealth of information. Biopesticides in combination with synthetic insecticides are reported as effective, economic, and eco-friendly. Understanding their interactions will certainly promote their uses. Finally, emphasis has been given on reviewing synergistic and antagonistic interactions of microbial and chemical pesticides, in other chapters.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Wasim Ahmad Ph. D (1981), D. Sc (1993) in Nematology (Zoology) from Aligarh Muslim University is a Professor (full) of Nematology at Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has wide experience of working in leading Nematology laboratories of the world and has published extensively on nematode taxonomy, ecology and the role of Entomopathogenic nematodes in insect biocontrol. He is recipient of several national and International awards and is Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc) and the National Academy of Agriculture Sciences (FNAAS) India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Microbes for Sustainable Insect Pest Management
Book Subtitle: An Eco-friendly Approach - Volume 1
Editors: Md. Aslam Khan, Wasim Ahmad
Series Title: Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23045-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23044-9Published: 30 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23047-0Published: 30 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23045-6Published: 16 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2567-9805
Series E-ISSN: 2567-9821
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 396
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Entomology, Agriculture, Soil Science & Conservation