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Record Nr.

UNINA9910688575003321

Titolo

Insecticides resistance / / edited by Stanislav Trdan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rijeka, Croatia : , : IntechOpen, , [2016]

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

595.7024

Soggetti

Insecticide resistance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This book contains 20 chapters, which are divided into 5 sections. Section 1 covers different aspects of insecticide resistance of selected economically important plant insect pests, whereas section 2 includes chapters about the importance, development and insecticide resistance management in controlling malaria vectors. Section 3 is dedicated to some general questions in insecticide resistance, while the main topic of section 4 is biochemical approaches of insecticide resistance mechanisms. Section 5 covers ecologically acceptable approaches for overcoming insecticide resistance, such are the use of mycoinsecticides, and understanding the role of some plant chemical compounds, which are important in interactions between plants, their pests and biological control agents.