Botanical Pesticides for Pest Management

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. History of Development and Perspective of Botanical Pesticides. 3. Mode of Action of Botanical Insecticides. 4. Mode of Action of Botanical Pesticides Against Non-insect Pests. 5. Major Plant/Tree Species Yielding Insecticidal Products. 6. Botanical Pesticides and their Role in Sustainable Crop Protection. 7. Processing of Botanicals. 8. Botanical Pesticides: Processing, Formulations and Future Thrust. 9. Wild-weed Plants. 10. Cultivated Crop Plants. 11. Medicinal Plants. 12. Aromatic and Ornamental Plants. 13. Trees having pesticidal properties. References. Author index. Species Index. Photographs.

The 2nd Edition of the book is mainly written for the research workers and students of various Universities, who are interested to use ecofriendly indigenous plant materials in pest management programme. The book provides a brief amount on different plants having pesticidal properties viz., plant taxonomy, geographical distribution, chemical constitutions and their structural formula, their mode of action, procedure for preparation and their safety to non target organisms.