Contents: Vol. I: Preface. 1. Emerging trends of biopesticides in pest management/S. Kannaiyan. 2. Microbial pesticides : issues and constraints/O.P. Dubey, O.P. Sharma and K.S. Murthy. 3. Role of microbial biopesticides in the management of key pests of certain major oilseed crops/H. Basappa and M.A. Masood Khan. 4. Microbial biopesticides for management of crop pests in Punjab : progress and potential/Ramesh Arora, G.S. Battu and G.S. Dhaliwal. 5. Ecologically sound botanical pesticides : development and use/Suresh Walia, Jitendra Kumar and B.S. Parmar. 6. Variable efficacy of neem-based formulations and Azadirachtin to aphids and their natural enemies/Opender Koul. 7. Development of improved Bacillus thuringiensis biopesticides : progress and prospects/Sarvjeet Kaur. 8. Bacillus thuringiensis : status and production strategies/Jatinder K. Arora and S.S. Marwaha. 9. Diamondback moth resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis and its toxins : an Indian experience/G.T. Gujar and R. Mohan. 10. Biotechnological approaches in plant protection/Seema Wahab. 11. Transgenic crops and pest management : problems and perspectives/Ashok K. Dhawan and G.S. Dhaliwal. 12. Genetic engineering of insect viruses : novelty or necessity?/K. Narayanan. 13. Potential and prospects for the utilization of Helicoverpa armigera nucleopolyhedrovirus for pest management in India/Ramesh Arora, Sandeep Singh, J.S. Multani, G.S. Battu and G.S. Dhaliwal. 14. Role of predators and parasitoids in biological control of crop pests/S.P. Singh. 15. Chemical mediated tritrophic interactions and their implications in biological control/A.V.N. Paul and Babita Yadav. 16. Lethal and sub-lethal effects of pesticides on insect natural enemies/G.W. Elzen. 17. Induced resistance : present status and future prospects as disease management strategy/U.S. Singh, D.S. Mishra, Rashmi Rohilla, Amita Singh, Vishwanath and B.P. Pal. 18. Biological control of plant pathogens in India : present status and future prospects/Rama S. Singh and Jaspal Kaur. 19. Status of plant pathogens for the biological control of weeds/J.S. Bedi, D. Muller-Stover and J. Sauerborn. 20. Genetic improvement of microbial control agent : entomopathogenic nematodes/Itamar Glazer and Daniel Segal. 21. Mycopesticides as a component of integrated pest management/K.R. Kanaujia, R.R.S. Rathore and Deepti Chaudhari. 22. Protozoans in insect control : a case study on the use of gregarines and microsporidians/M.C. Muralirangan, K.P. Sanjayan and S. Johny. 23. A mission mode approach for bioagent production, popularization and human resource development for IPM of Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) and Helicoverpa armigera (hubner) in coastal Andhra Pradesh/S. Gunneswara Rao, S. Sitaramaiah, U. Sreedhar and G. Rama Prasad. 24. Epilogue : future perspectives in biopesticides/Opender Koul, G.S. Dhaliwal, S.S. Marwaha and Jatinder K. Arora. Author index. Subject index.
Vol. II: Preface. 1. Efficiency of some oils and neem formulations against the cowpea beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus (Fabricius) (Coleoptera : Bruchidae)/Nadia Z. Dimetry, M. Hafez and M.H. Abbass. 2. Effects of methanolic extracts of neem and Bakain seeds on the biology and food consumption-utilization indices of Earias vittella (Fabricius)/T. Gajmer, Ram Singh and R.K. Saini. 3. Efficiency of two neem formulations in controlling the pallid scale, Insulaspis palidula (green), infesting mango trees in Egypt/M.H. Mansour and H.A. Salem. 4. Laboratory evaluation of neem formulations against rice Gundhi bug, leptocorisa acuta (Thunberg)/G.S. Dhaliwal, J.S. Multani, Sandeep Singh, Gagandeep Kaur and Jaswant Singh. 5. Effect of neem products on duration of developmental stages of whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) on cotton/G.S. Mann, G.S. Dhaliwal and V.K. Dilawari. 6. Larvicidal activity of the plant, Phyllanthus amarus, against mosquito larvae/Shalini Khanna, M.M. Srivastava and Shalini Srivastava. 7. Insect antifeedant and growth regulating activities of neem seed oil – the role of major tetranortriterpenoids/Geetha Gopalakrishnan, G. Suresh and S. Daniel Wesley. 8. Selection of an elite tree and effect of monthwise seasonal variation in rotenoid production in Derris indica (Lam) benette/R. Kamal and V. Mathur. 9. Use of various botanicals for combating the attack of pulse beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis (Linnaeus)/P.S. Mendki, H.M. Kotkar, S.M. Upasani, V.L. Maheshwari and R.M. Kothari. 10. Influence of plant allelochemicals on growth rate, nutritional physiology and midgut esterase activity in Spodoptera litura (Fabricius)/Samindranath Mukherjee. 11. Evaluation of plant based biopesticides against Psylla, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama and Mallada boninensis Okamoto against insect pests of citrus/V.J. Shivankar, C.N. Rao and Shyam Singh. 12. In vitro evaluation of neem oil and neem leaf extract for antifungal activity against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, causing white rot of Gobhi Sarson/A. Srinivasan, I.S. Kang and Rama S. Singh. 13. Evaluation of integrated pest management modules using various insecticides and natural products in vegetable crops/Sundeep Kaur. 14. Neem seed oil induced changes in the Ovarian components of Albino rats/P.K. Dhaliwal, J.K. Roop and S.S. Guraya. 15. Cloning of Bt gene in Maize endophyte for control of shoot borer, Chilo partellus (Swinhoe)/Rhitu Rai, Prasanta Dash and Aqbal Singh.16. PCR amplification and cloning of lepidopteran specific gene from indigenous isolate, Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. Kenyae/R.S. Hire, T.K. Dongre and S.R. Padwal-Desai. 17. Abundance of Bacillus thuringiensis in agricultural soils in the Ladakh region of India/T. Stobdan, S. Kaur and A. Singh. 18. Laboratory evaluation of native Bacillus thuringiensis isolates against the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus)/Ramesh Arora, A.P. Singh, V.K. Gupta and G.S. Battu. 19. Evaluation of Bacillus cereus alone and in combination with certain insecticides against castor semilooper, Achaea janata linnaeus and its parasitoid/H. Basappa and S. Lingappa. 20. Comparative evaluation of five strains of Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner against Helicoverpa armigera (hubner) and Plutella xylostella (linnaeus)/G.S. Battu, Ramesh Arora, D.S. Bath, V.K. Gupta and H.S. Dhaliwal. 21. Evaluation of native nucleopolyhedrovirus for ecosafe management of Helicoverpa armigera (hubner) on tomato/Sandeep Singh and G.S. Battu. 22. Management of Spodoptera litura (fabricius) on chillies with NPV in coastal Andhra Pradesh/U. Sreedhar, S. Sitaramaiah, G. Gunneswara Rao and G. Ramaprasad. 23. Comparative virulence and morphometric variability of some native isolates of nucleopolyhedrovirus of Helicoverpa armigera (hubner)/N. Padmanaban, Ramesh Arora and G.S. Battu. 24. Occurrence, cross infectivity and safety of nuclear polyhedrosis virus of beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (hubner)/K. Narayanan. 25. Effect of different storage temperatures and periods on the viability and infectivity of Pasteuria penetrans/B.B. Gogoi and J.S. Gill. 26. Efficacy of biopesticides and compatibility of methoxyfenozide and Beauveria bassiana (balsamo) vuillemin against Spilosoma obliqua walker/A.N. Singh and K.R. Kanaujia. 27. Effectiveness of phylloplane fungi in induction of localized resistance against mustard disease/Arvinder Kaur, S.J. Kolte and U.S. Singh. 28. Development of improved biocontrol agent against castor wilt pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ricini/M.A. Raoof and A.B. Hari Narayana. 29. Bioefficacy and shelf life of different propagules of Trichoderma harzianum/R.D. Prasad, R. Rangeshwaran, C.P. Anuroop and P.R. Phanikumar. 30. Effect of low and room temperature storage of shelf life of Trichoderma formulations/Rama S. Singh and Jaspal Kaur. 31. Field efficacy of entomopathogenic fungus, Nomuraea rileyi (farlow) Samson against Spodoptera litura (fabricius) in beet-root/C. Gopalakrishnan and K.S. Mohan. 32. Synomonal effect of some varieties of soybean on the egg parasitoid, Trichogramma exiguum Pinto, Platner & Oatman/Babita Yadav, A.V.N. Paul, Prem Dureja and R.K. Gautam. 33. Influence of temperature and insecticides on the parasitization by Trichogramma chilonis ishii on the eggs of Corcyra cephalonica (stainton)/S. Tiwari, M.A. Khan and Meena Agnihotri. 34. Management of mushroom sciarid fly, Bradysia tritici (Coq.) by entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema feltiae filipjev/Punerdeep Singh Aujla, V.K. Kaul and H.K. Chhabra. 35. Use of α-tomatine as resistance marker in Lycopersicon esculentum (Mill.) against Meloidogyne incognita/H.C. Meher and S.B. Sharma. 36. Studies on α-tomatine and α-solanine in defense of Lycopersicon esculentum (Mill.) against Meloidogyne incognita/H.C. Meher, S.B. Sharma and N. Gajbhiye. 37. A successful trial for the control of the hairy rose scarabaeid beetle Tropinota squalida scop., using entomogenus nematodes as a bioagent/Nadia Z. Dimetry, H.M. Hussein, Z.H. Zidan and R.R. Iss-Hak. 38. Bio-intensive management of leaf eating caterpillar, Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) in tobacco nurseries/S. Sitaramaiah, U. Sreedhar, S. Gunneswara Rao, G. Ramaprasad and S. Nageswara Rao. Author index. Subject index.
