Plant Protection: Present Developments and Future Strategies

Contents: 1. Climate change and its impact on insect fauna. 2. Ecological engineering an eco-friendly approach in insect pest management. 3. Role of chemical ecology in insect pest management. 4. Role of endophytes in insect pest management. 5. Insecticide resistance: mechanism and management. 6. Insect taxonomy and its role in integrated pest management. 7. Insect vectors accountable for plant diseases. 8. Trilogy: Plants-Proteases-Insects. 9. Recent trends in management of stored grain insect pests. 10. Mass production of important natural enemies and their field applications. 11. Antagonists in plant disease control. 12. Bio-control of plant bacterial diseases-challenges and opportunities. 13. Entomopathogenic and Acaropathogenic fungus Isaria-A mini review. 14. Plant parasitic nematodes and their management for sustainable agriculture. 15. Role of entomopathogenic nematodes in plant protection. Subject index. Authors’ index.

This book covers some important and pertinent topics in plant protection involving the subjects Agricultural Entomology, Plant Pathology and Phytonematology. The present developments happening in the realm of plant protection are captured in the chapters of the book with supporting references. The wide-ranging issues from most-talked about climate change to biocontrol approach in plant protection are elaborated and discussed in various chapters.