Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Crop loss due to pests is a major constraint to meeting food needs of the expected world population of ten billion by 2050. Integrated Pest Management offers an approach that is economically and socially acceptable, environmentally safe, and improves health standards. Its main thrust is to reduce the use of chemical pesticides by finding and introducing alternate technologies that include physical, cultural, and biological methods. This book identifies flaws in the definition, identification, implementation, and evaluation of IPM, and provides information on development of IPM components and packages that are adoptable in developing countries. It emphasizes the need for dissemination of information on IPM technologies and working with value chains and farmers from production to distribution. The chapter on viruses of vegetable crops covers several diseases diagnosed in recent years and their management options. Similarly, the chapter on Trichoderma, a beneficial fungus, provides both basic and applied information. IPM is crop, site, and season specific. The IPM packages described for crucifers, naranjilla, okra, onion and potato can be adopted by farmers with necessary adjustments. IPM is a dynamic process and requires modifications according to changes and needs. Chapters on IPM practices in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Uganda show how these packages have been modified and adapted to various vegetable crops. The economic benefits derived by adoption of IPM in developing countries are illustrated. This book provides essential information for researchers and extension staff of national governments and development specialists in value chain projects who participate in crop protection activities in developing countries.

Agriculture. --- Plant pathology. --- Entomology. --- Agriculture. --- Plant Pathology. --- Entomology.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Agriculture. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Plant pathology. --- Plant physiology. --- Agriculture. --- Plant Sciences. --- Plant Pathology. --- Plant Physiology.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The volume focuses on novel and effective biological and biotechnological methods for managing major plant parasitic nematodes in economically important agricultural crops. Nematodes develop a wide variety of interactions with soil microbes and host plants, and cause enormous losses in crop yields equivalent to around USD 173 billion annually. In view of growing concern for pesticide contamination in crops, coupled with ban on several efficacious pesticides, and increasing demand for organic foods, the biological and biotechnological approaches offer a good alternative to chemicals for managing nematode infestations in agricultural crops. The book embodies twenty-two chapters which are arranged in two groups. The first group covers different novel methods of nematode management such as biotechnological, biopesticides, microbial consortia, host resistance, omics technology, transgenics, nano-nematicides, nano-diagnosis, etc. The second groups of chapters describe important nematode problems in major crops such as cereals, vegetables, pulses, spices, wood yielding conifers, etc. Overall, the book collates the latest information on above topics and offers practical solutions to the limitations and challenges in the existing management technologies. This book is of interest and serves up-to-date and elaborated information to agriculture researchers, teachers, scientists, under-graduates, post-graduates, plant nematologists, plant pathologists, plant protectionists, agronomists, horticulturalists, helminthologists, extension workers, and NGOs. .

Plant diseases. --- Agricultural biotechnology. --- Biotechnology. --- Plant Pathology. --- Agricultural Biotechnology.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book provides extensive and comprehensive knowledge to the researchers/academics who are working in the field of cesium contaminated sites, and the impact on plants. This book is also helpful for graduate and undergraduate students who are specializing in radioecology or safe disposal of radioactive waste, remediation of legacies and the impact on the environment. Radiocesium (137Cs and 134Cs) was released into the environment as a result of nuclear weapons testing in 1950s and 1960s (~1x1018 Bq), and later due to the Chernobyl accident in 1986 (8.5x1016 Bq) and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011 (~1x1017 Bq). 137Cs is still of relevance due to its half-life of 30 years. The study of radioisotope 137Cs is important, as production and emission rates are high compared to other radioisotopes, due to high fission yield and high volatility. This book contains original work and reviews on how cesium is released into the environment on translocation from soil to plants and further on to animals and into the human food chain. Separate chapters focus on the effective half-life of cesium in plants and on how different cultivars are responding in accumulation of cesium. Other key chapters focus on cesium impact on single cells to higher plants and also on remediation measures as well as on basic mechanism used for remedial options and analysis of transfer factors. The book rounds off by contributions on cesium uptake and translocation and its toxicity in plants after the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents.

Environmental monitoring. --- Environmental management. --- Nuclear energy. --- Plant pathology. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Environmental Management. --- Nuclear Energy. --- Plant Pathology.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland überwachen die Behörden der Länder die Einhaltung der Vorschriften, die für das Inverkehrbringen und die Anwendung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln gelten. Mit dem Pflanzenschutz-Kontrollprogramm wurde ab 2004 eine länderübergreifende Initiative zur Verbesserung der Überwachung pflanzenschutzrechtlicher Vorschriften eingeführt. Ziel ist ein bundesweit harmonisiertes Verfahren bei der Durchführung und Berichterstattung der Kontrollen. Das Programm wird nach gemeinsamen Standards auf Grundlage eines abgestimmten Handbuches durchgeführt. Die Festlegung von Kontrolltatbeständen und die Betriebsauswahl erfolgt durch die Länder; zusätzlich werden jährlich bundesweite Schwerpunktkontrollen festgelegt. Der vorliegende Bericht fasst die Ergebnisse des Jahres 2008 zusammen.

Forestry. --- Agriculture. --- Environmental monitoring. --- Plant pathology. --- Environmental engineering. --- Biotechnology. --- Analytical chemistry. --- Forestry. --- Agriculture. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Plant Pathology. --- Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology. --- Analytical Chemistry.