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Title Natural remedies for pest, disease and weed control / edited by Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Barbara Sawicka
Published [Amsterdam] : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2020]
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Contents Part I: Green approach to pest and disease control: 1. Pests of agricultural crops and control measures / Barbara Sawicka and Chukwuebuka Egbuna -- 2. Plant diseases, pathogens and diagnosis / Barbara Sawicka, Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Smriti Kala, et al. -- 3. Pesticides, history, and classification / Yusuf Abubakar, Habibu Tijjani, Kingsley C. Patrick-Iwuanyanwu, et al. -- 4. Biopesticides, safety issues and market trends / Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Barbara Sawicka, Colin B. Lukong, et al. -- 5. Natural compounds against plant pests and pathogens / Agnieszka Jamiołkowska and Marek Kopacki -- 6. Phytochemicals of plant-derived essential oils : a novel green approach against pests / Arvind Saroj, Olumayowa Vincent Oriyomi, S. Zafar Haider, et al. -- 7. Semiochemicals : a green approach to pest and disease control / Shahira M. Ezzat, Jaison Jeevanandam, Aamir Sharif, et al. -- 8. Fungistatic properties of lectin-containing extracts of medicinal plants / Sergey V. Pospelov, Anna D. Pospelova, Maxim V. Semenko, et al
Part II: Biological control measures: 9. Biological control of weeds by allelopathic compounds from different plants : a bioherbicide approach / Mohammad Mehdizadeh and Waseem Mushtaq -- 10. Microbial control of pests and weeds / Deepa Verma, Temitope Banjo, Rohan Gavankar, et al. -- 11. Biological control of plant pests by endophytic microorganisms / Alloysius Chibuike Ogodo
Part III: Techniques, biotechnological and computational approach: 12. Techniques for the detection, identification, and diagnosis of agricultural pathogens and diseases / Ajay Kumar Gautam and Shashank Kumar -- 13. Nucleic acid-based methods in the detection of foodborne pathogens / Hakiye Aslan, Ayten Ekinci and İmran Aslan -- 14. Plant biotechnology in food security / Barbara Sawicka, Krishnan Umachandran, Parisa Ziarati, et al. -- 15. Homemade preparations of natural biopesticides and applications / Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji, Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Kingsley C. Patrick-Iwuanyanwu, et al. -- 16. The use of vermiwash and vermicompost extract in plant disease and pest control / Intan Soraya Che Sulaiman and Azham Mohamad -- 17. Genetic modification as a control mechanism to plant pest attack / Onyeka Kingsley Nwosu and Kingsley Ikechukwu Ubaoji -- 18. Biopesticides : formulations and delivery techniques / Smriti Kala, Nisha Sogan, Jitendra Kumar, et al. -- 19. Safe storage and preservation techniques in commercialized agriculture / Narashans Alok Sagar and Sunil Pareek -- 20. Advances in application of ICT in crop pest and disease management / Chandan Kumar Panda -- 21. Applications of computational methods in plant pathology / Keshavi Nalla, Seshu Vardhan Pothabathula and Shashank Kumar
Summary Natural Remedies for Pest, Disease and Weed Control presents alternative solutions in the form of eco-friendly, natural remedies. Written by senior researchers and professionals with many years of experience from diverse fields in biopesticides, the book presents scientific information on novel plant families with pesticidal properties and their formulations. It also covers chapters on microbial pest control and control of weeds by allelopathic compounds. This book will be invaluable to plant pathologists, agrochemists, plant biochemists, botanists, environmental chemists and farmers, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed June 22, 2020)
Subject Pests -- Control.
Phytopathogenic microorganisms -- Control.
Weeds -- Control.
Naturopathy.
Pest Control
Naturopathy
pest control.
Naturopathy
Pests -- Control
Phytopathogenic microorganisms -- Control
Weeds -- Control
Form Electronic book
Author Egbuna, Chukwuebuka, editor
Sawicka, Barbara, editor
ISBN 0128193050
9780128193051