Neither pest management nor resistance management
can occur with only an understanding of pest biology.
For years, entomologists have understood, with their use
of economic thresholds, that at least a minimal use of
economics was necessary for proper integrated pest
management. IRM is even more complicated and dependent
on understanding and using socioeconomic factors. The
new edition of Insect Resistance Management addresses
these issues and much more. Many new ideas, facts and
case studies have been developed since the previous
edition of Insect Resistance Management published. With
a new chapter focusing on Resistance Mechanisms Related
to Plant-incorporated Toxins and heavily expanded
revisions of several existing chapters, this new volume
will be an invaluable resource for IRM researchers,
practitioners, professors and advanced students. Authors
in this edition include professors at major
universities, leaders in the chemical and seed industry,
evolutionary biologists and active IRM practitioners.
This revision also contains more information about IRM
outside North America, and a modeling chapter contains a
large new section on uncertainty analysis, a subject
recently emphasized by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. The final chapter contains a section on
insecticidal seed treatments. No other book has the
breadth of coverage of Insect Resistance Management, 2e.
It not only covers molecular to economic issues, but
also transgenic crops, seed treatments and other pest
management tactics such as crop rotation. Major themes
continuing from the first edition include the importance
of using IRM in the integrated pest management paradigm,
the need to study and account for pest behavior, and the
influence of human behavior and decision making in IRM.
It provides insights from the history of insect
resistence management (IRM) to the latest science. It
inlcudes contributions from experts on ecological
aspects of IRM, molecular and population genetics,
economics, and IRM social issues. It offers biochemistry
and molecular genetics of insecticides presented with an
emphasis on recent research. It encourages scientists
and stakeholders to implement and coordinate strategies
based on local social conditions.
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