Integrated Pest Management

• 1: Integrated Pest Management: Retrospect and prospect,G S Dhaliwal, O Koul and R Arora, Punjab Agricultural University, India 2: Cultural practices: Springboard to IPM, W I Bajwa and M Kogan, Oregon State University, USA 3: The relevance of modelling in successful implementation of IPM, D E Legg, University of Wyoming, USA 4: Manipulation of tritrophic interactions for IPM,R H J Verkerk, Imperial College London, UK 5: Behavior modifying chemicals: Prospects and constraints in IPM, L J Gut, L L Stelinski, Michigan State University,USA, D R Thomson, DJS Consulting, Washington State,USA and J R Miller, Michigan State University, USA 6: Transgenic insecticidal cultivars in Integrated Pest Management: Challenges and opportunities, J S Bernal,J Prasifka, M Sétamou and K M Heinz, Texas A&M University, USA 7: Plant resistance against pests: Issues and strategies,C M Smith, Kansas State University, USA 8: The pesticide paradox in IPM: Risk benefit analysis,P Guillebeau, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, USA 9: Manipulation of host finding and acceptance behaviours in insects: Importance to IPM, R S Cowles, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, USA 10: Integrated Pest Management in forestry: Potential and challenges, I S Otvos, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria,Canada 11: Consumer response to IPM: Potential and challenges,C S Hollingsworth and W M Coli, University of Massachusetts, USA 12: The essential role of IPM in promoting sustainability of agricultural production systems for future generations,G W Cuperus, R C Berberet and R T Noyes, Oklahoma State University, USA 13: Opportunities and challenges for IPM in developing Countries, D Bergvinson, CIMMYT, Mexico

"The editors have recruited a formidable team of authors to produce the thirteen information-packed chapters, each of which represents an amalgam of historical background, relevant science and present-day practice, together with as up-to-date a bibliography as possible." Derek Clifford, Pest Management Science, November 2004"