New Horizons in Insect Science Towards Sustainable Pest Management

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New Horizons in Insect Science: Towards Sustainable Pest Management ...

Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy Editor New Horizons in Insect Science: Towards Sustainable Pest Management 2123 ...

ISBN 978-81-322-2088-6 ISBN 978-81-322-2089-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2089- Library of Congress Control Number: 201593195 ...

v Foreword It was sometime in mid-2012 that I received an invitation to deliver an inau- gural key note for the International Co ...

vii Preface Great advances have been made during the last few decades in insect sci- ence and pest management. Undoubtedly, impo ...

viii Preface lection of views are often not available to readers. Manuscripts were received in two forms: original research mate ...

ix Acknowledgements The ICIS-2013 Secretariat thanks all those who have helped in organizing and conducting ICIS-2013, a mega ev ...

xi Prelude New Horizons in Insect Science: Towards Sustainable Pest Management: An Introduction A. K. Chakravarthy This book dea ...

xii Prelude the behaviour and physiology of the red ant, Oecophylla smaragdina. The team of Mahfuza Khan from Bangladesh have re ...

Prelude xiii Another novel and noble means of pest suppression has been through biocon- trol agents. Ballal and Verghese have re ...

xv Contents Part I Insect Taxonomy Insect Taxonomy—Basics to Barcoding ................................................ 3 K. Sre ...

xvi Contents Chitinase Expressed as an Inducible Trait in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Schröter P-15 ................................. ...

Contents xvii Part V Insect Molecular Biology Molecular Approaches for the Improvement of Bacillus thuringiensis Against Pests . ...

xviii Integrated Management of Insect-Induced Reddening in Bt Cotton Hybrids ................................................... ...

xix Biological Consequences of Climate Change on Arthropod Biodiversity and Pest Management .................................... ...

xxi Contributors Mahshid Alibabaie Department of Plant Protection, Agricultural Faculty West Azarbayjan province, Urmia Universi ...

xxii Contributors A. K. Chakravarthy Department of Agricultural Entomology, Gandhi Kri- shi Vignan Kendra (GKVK), University of ...

Contributors xxiii Subhash B. Kandakoor Department of Agricultural Entomology, Gandhi Krishi Vignan Kendra (GKVK), University of ...

xxiv M. K. Meegahakumbura Genetics and Plant Breeding Division, Coconut Research Institute, Lunuwila, Sri Lanka Deepak Mehta Bio ...