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Biotechnological approaches for pest management and ecological sustainability [electronic resource] / Hari C. Sharma.

By: Sharma, H. C. (Hari Chand)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boca Raton [Fla.] : CRC Press, c2009. Description: xx, 526 p. : illISBN: 9781420088489 (ebook : PDF)Subject(s): Agricultural pests -- Biological control | Insect pests -- Biological control | Plants -- Insect resistance -- Genetic aspects | Plant biotechnologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No title; No titleOnline resources: Click here to access online Also available in print edition.
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1. Pest management and the environment -- 2. Applications of biotechnology in agriculture : the prospects -- 3. Evaluation of transgenic plants and magging populations for resistance to insect pests -- 4. Host plant resistance to insects : potential and limitations -- 5. Mechanisms and inheritance of resistance to insect pests -- 6. Physico-chemical and molecular markers for resistance to insect pests -- 7. Genetic transformation of crops for resistance to insect pests -- 8. Genetic engineering of entopmopathogenic microbes for pest management -- 9. Genetic engineering of natural enemies for integrated pest management -- 10. Deployment of insect-resistance transgenic crops for pest management potential and limitation -- 11. Transgenic resistance to insects : interaction with nontarget organisms -- 12. Development of resistance to transgenic plants and strategies for resistance management -- 13. Transgenic resistance to insects : gene flow -- 14. Transgenic resistance to insects : nature of risk and risk management -- 15. Biosafety of food from genetically modified crops -- 16. Detection and monitoring of food and food products derived from genetically modified crops -- 17. Molecular markers for diagnosis of insect pests and their natural enemies -- 18. Molecular techniques for developing new insecticide molecules and monitoring insect resistance to insecticides -- 19. Biotechnoloyg, pest management, and the environment : the future -- Species index -- Subject index.
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1. Pest management and the environment -- 2. Applications of biotechnology in agriculture : the prospects -- 3. Evaluation of transgenic plants and magging populations for resistance to insect pests -- 4. Host plant resistance to insects : potential and limitations -- 5. Mechanisms and inheritance of resistance to insect pests -- 6. Physico-chemical and molecular markers for resistance to insect pests -- 7. Genetic transformation of crops for resistance to insect pests -- 8. Genetic engineering of entopmopathogenic microbes for pest management -- 9. Genetic engineering of natural enemies for integrated pest management -- 10. Deployment of insect-resistance transgenic crops for pest management potential and limitation -- 11. Transgenic resistance to insects : interaction with nontarget organisms -- 12. Development of resistance to transgenic plants and strategies for resistance management -- 13. Transgenic resistance to insects : gene flow -- 14. Transgenic resistance to insects : nature of risk and risk management -- 15. Biosafety of food from genetically modified crops -- 16. Detection and monitoring of food and food products derived from genetically modified crops -- 17. Molecular markers for diagnosis of insect pests and their natural enemies -- 18. Molecular techniques for developing new insecticide molecules and monitoring insect resistance to insecticides -- 19. Biotechnoloyg, pest management, and the environment : the future -- Species index -- Subject index.

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