Contents: Preface. I. Fundamentals: 1. Rice/E.A. Heinrichs, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, U.S.A. 2. Taxonomy of rice insect pests and their arthropod parasites and predators/Alberto T. Barrion and James A. Litsinger, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. II. Biology and ecology: 3. Insect pests of the rice plant--their biology and ecology/D. Dale, Kerala Agricultural University, India. 4. Rice pests and agricultural environments/Michael E. Loevinsohn, International Development Research Centre, Canada. III. Control tactics and strategies: 5. Host plant resistance/E.A. Heinrichs, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, U.S.A. 6. Cultural, mechanical and physical control of rice insects/James A. Litsinger, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. 7. Predators and parasitoids of rice insect pests/P.A.C. Ooi, CAB International Institute of Biological Control, Malaysia and B.M. Shepard, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. 8. Pathogens of rice insects/Michiel C. Rombach and D.W. Roberts, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University, U.S.A. and Remedios M. Aguda, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. 9. Insecticide management in rice/S. Chelliah and M. Bharathi, Tamil Nadu Rice Research Institute, India. 10. Integration of rice insect control strategies and tactics/C. Michael Smith, University of Idaho, U.S.A.

11. The brown planthopper: promises, problems, and prospects/Michiel C. Rombach, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University; and Kevin D. Gallagher, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A. IV. Implementation of rice IPM systems: 12. Development and implementation of rice IPM in Japan/Keizi Kiritani, National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences; and Kunihiko Naba, Hiroshima Prefectural Agricultural Experiment Station, Japan. 13. Development of an integrated pest management system for rice in Latin America/G. Weber, Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, and O. Parada, Federacion Nacional de Arroceros, South America. Subject index. Species index.

"Rice insect management system is a subject of crucial importance today in the regions of tropical Asia, Africa and South America.

"This book aims at fulfilling the need for a comprehensive treatment of rice entomology under one cover. The contributors to this book, drawn from various related disciplines, discuss the fundamentals of rice entomology, the biology and ecology of rice insects and the various techniques of rice insect control, namely, host plant resistance, cultural, mechanical and physical controls, predators and parasitoids, pathogens and insecticides.

"This book also traces the development and implementation of rice insect management systems designed for Japan and Latin America.

"Effective rice insect management programmes being inter-disciplinary in nature, this book will be a valuable resource for rice breeders, plant physiologists, plant biochemists, soil scientists, plant pathologists and entomologists." (jacket)

[E.A. Heinrichs also wrote Methods in Insecticide Evaluation in Rice, Rice Insects : Management Strategies and Genetics Evaluation for Insect Resistance in Rice.]