Basic and Applied Aspects of Biopesticides

Dr. K. Sahayaraj is Associate Professor and Director of Crop Protection Research Centre at St. Xavier’s College affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu, India. He has been awarded University Fifth Rank in M.Sc. by Madurai Kamaraj University in 1987. He has been teaching Zoology including Entomology to undergraduate and post-graduate students for more than 21 years. Dr. Sahayaraj has published four books and one proceeding on Ecofriendly Insect Pest Management. He has more than 173 publications, including original research papers, book chapters and popular articles in insect ecology, behavior, biology and physiology, as well as numerous papers on biological control efficacy of reduviidae, botanicals and fungal pathogens. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Sahayaraj’s research efforts have been dedicated to multidisciplinary, integrated approaches in understanding how reduviidae distribute and diversify in various ecosystems, and how their adaptive characters can be applied to pest management, especially through biointensive pest management. He has operated 10 research projects funded by national (DST, DBT, CSIR, MOEs) and international (IFS) funding agencies, and now he has been operating MEFs funded project. Recently, he has been publishing an international journal, namely Journal of Biopesticides (ISSN 0976-0341X).

• Section I- Microbials.- Chapter 1. Bacillus and Biopesticides in control of Phytonematodes .- Chapter 2. Biological Control of Pest and Diseases using Fluorescent Pseudomonads.- Chapter 3. Role of Entomopathogenic Fungus in Pest Management.- Chapter 4. Microbial Viral Insecticides.- Chapter 5. Entomopathogenic Nematodes as Applied Biopesticides.- Chapter 6. Microbial Elicitors to Induce Immunity for Plant Disease Control in Chilli and Tomato.- Section II – Botanicals.- Chapter 7. Plant Essential Oils and Pest Management.-Chapter 8. Relevance of Botanicals for the Management of Forest Insect Pests of India.- Chapter 9. Use of Plant Volatile for Plant Pathogens and Pests  Management.- Section – III – Natural Enemies.- Chapter 10. Reduviidae and their merits in Biological Control.- Chapter 11. Weaver ants and Biocontrol of the Nuisance Pest, Luprops Tristis (Coleoptera; Tenebrionidae).-Chapter 12. Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) their Potential as Bioagents in Agroecosystems.- Chapter 13. Ecofriendly control of three common Mosquito Larvae Species by Odonata Nymphs.- Chapter 14. Spider as Potential Ecofriendly Predators Against Pests.- Chapter 15. Genetic Improvement of Biocontrol Agents for Sustainable Pest Management.- Section IV – Semio-chemicals and Biotechnology.- Chapter 16.  Kairomones for increasing the Biological Control Efficiency of Insect Natural Enemies.- Chapter 17. Classical Practices and Pheromone in Biopesticides.- Chapter 18. The use of Transgenic Plants in Insect Control.- Section V- Equipments, Bioinformatics Tools and IPM.- Chapter 19. Equipment for Application of  Biopesticides.- Chapter 20. Relevance of Bioinformatics in Biopesticides Management: a Comparative Review.- Chapter 21. Pest Management of Soybean: Sustainable Production Techniques.