Ecologically Based Integrated Pest Management (2 Parts-Set)

Contents: Part I: Foreword. Preface. I. Basic Concepts: 1. An introduction to ecological based pest management/D.P. Abrol. 2. Integrated pest management: a historical perspective/Rajinder Peshin and Rakesh S. Bandral. 3. Weather based pest forecasting/Uma Shankar and D.P. Abrol. 4. Impact of climate change on the population dynamics of crop pests and pathogens/D.P. Abrol and Uma Shankar. 5. Information technology integrated pest management/A.K. Dhawan. 6. Taxonomy as an effective tool in IPM/V.V. Ramamurthy and D.P. Abrol. 7. Integrated pest management and food security/Uma Shankar. 8. Biopesticides in ecologically based integrated pest management/Opender Koul. 9. Impact of pesticides in the environment Indian scenario/M. Raghuraman. II. Impact on food security and ecosystem: 10. Impact of pest management practices on biodiversity of pollinators/D.P. Abrol. 11. Insect pests problems associated with hill farming and their management/D.P. Abrol. 12. Integrated weed management in hill agro ecosystems/Anil Kumar, B.C. Sharma and Vikas Sharma. 13. New chemistry in pest management/A.K. Dhawan. 14. Impact of pesticide on soil health/A.K. Bhat. III. Biorational strategies: 15. Current perspective in biological control/Uma Shankar and D.P. Abrol. 16. Potential of pheromone technology in the management of  insect pests of apple : a case study/S.A. Ganie, Z.H. Khan and A.A. Khan. 17. Conservation and augumentation of natural enemies/Devinder Sharma. 18. Biological control potential of entomopathogenic nematodes in integrated pest management/Farooq A. Zaki, Mantoo, M.A. and Barkat Hussain. 19. Molecular tools in biological control of crop pests/Anil Kumar Singh and Sunil K. Rai. 20. Proteinase inhibitors and pest management/Moni Gupta A.K. Tiku and S.A. Mallick. 21. Exploitation of fungi for management of weeds in sustainable agriculture/Vishal Gupta and C.S. Kalha. 22. Virus transmitting insect vectors and their management/Ranbir Singh, Sachin Gupta and V.K. Razdan. 23. Eco friendly approach for quality ornamental production/Sheetal Dogra and Satesh Kumar. 24. Microbial control of crop pests using entomopathogenic fungi/Sachin Gupta, Ranbir Singh and V.K. Razdan. 

Part II: IV. Breeding for resistance: 25. Breeding for resistance to major insect pests of cereals/B.B. Gupta and R.K. Salgotra. 26. Vegetable improvement through transgenics/Satesh Kumar and Sheetal Dogra. 27. Conventional Breeding strategies for insect resistance in vegetable crops/Sanjeev Kumar, Puja Rattan and Jag Paul Sharma. 28. Breeding for resistance to major insect pests of pulses/Bimal Singh Jamwal. 29. Breeding for insect pests resistance in oilseed crops/S.K. Gupta and D.R.C. Bakhetia. V. IPM in field crops vegetables and fruits: 30. Integrated pest management in cereal crops/Uma Shankar and D.P. Abrol. 31. Integrated disease management of field crops under hill agro ecosystem/S.K. Singh, Deepak Kumar and P.K. Singh. 32. Integrated pest management in vegetable eco system/Uma Shankar and SVS Raju. 33. Ecologically based integrated disease management for vegetable crops/Mukesh Kumar Pandey and C.S. Kalha. 34. Mites injurious to economic plants and their management/D.P. Abrol and A.K. Bhowmick. 35. Integrated pest management in dry land horticultural crops/Sanjeev Rai and Uma Shankar. 36. Insect pests and diseases of temperate fruit crops and their management/Farooq A. Zaki. 37. Integrated disease management of fruit crops under hill agroecosystem/Deepak Kumar and S.K. Singh. 38. Nematode pests of fruit crops and their management/Virendra Kumar Singh and Uma Shankar. 39. Pest management in Walnut: an overview/R.M. Sharma, M.K. Pandey and Uma Shankar. 40. Sustainable strawberry production in sub tropical plains/M.K. Pandey, Uma Shankar and R.M. Sharma. 41. Pest control and disinfections in rural Godowns/A.A. Khan, Z.H. Khan and S.A. Ganie. VI. Future strategies and policy issues: 42. Availability of inputs and associated problems in integrated pest management/R.R. Jat. 43. Methodologies for dissemination of integrated pest management technologies and their impact/Rajinder Peshin and Rakesh Sharma. 44. Methodological aspects of IPM evaluation/S.K. Kher, R. Peshin and P.S. Slathia. 45. IPR issues in agriculture/Sudhakar Dwivedi. 46. Critical evaluation of WTOs regulations and policies in Indian agriculture/Sudhakar Dwivedi. 47. Implications of statistical tools in pest management/S.E.H. Rizvi and Manish Sharma. 48. Future of integrated pest management/D.P. Abrol. Index.

The availability of modern tools and transgenic crop protection technology has opened new vistas in the vast field of pest management. All these issues form the focus of the book, where they have been discussed by eminent scientists who are authority in their respective fields. The book describes the science and art of integrated pest management. It contains 48 chapters grouped into six sections in two parts which include topics ranging from:

Basic concepts
Impact on food security.
Biorational strategies.
Breeding for resistance.
IPM in crops fruits vegetables.
Future strategies and policy issues.
IPR related issues.

It also gives detailed information on emerging strategies and problems such as the role of biotechnology and the implications of IPR issues. The roles of IPM in sustaining food productivity contribution of IPM in meeting economic environmental and social costs have been elaborated. The role of diagnostic tools weather forecasting transgenic plants biological control and new chemicals in future IPM programmes and strategies to meet the challenges of pest adaptation have been highlighted. The need for improved information transfer implementation and application of IPM has been discussed. Finally it is essential to know the status of IPM its future challenges and constraints which have been extensively elaborated in the last chapter of this book. The book intends to fill the gap by providing the critical analysis of different management strategies having bearing on agriculture sustainability and environmental protection. The compilation of this book is unique in the sense that it does not deal with the conventional way of discussing pest management with respect to particular crops or the regions. It emphasizes on the other hand an overview of the management strategies with critical evaluation of each in the larger context of ecologically based pest management.