Overview
Neither pest nor resistance management can occur with only an understanding of pest biology. For years, entomologists have known that at least a minimal use of economics was necessary for pest management. Insect resistance 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 more. With a new chapter focusing on resistance to plant-incorporated toxins and heavily expanded revisions of several existing chapters, this new volume is an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners, teachers, and advanced students. Authors 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. A modeling chapter contains a new section on uncertainty analysis, a subject recently emphasized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The final chapter discussed insecticidal seed treatments. No other book has the breadth of coverage of Insect Resistance Management, 2e. It covers molecular and economic issues as well as transgenic crops, seed treatments, and other pest management tactics. Major themes include the importance of IRM in the integrated pest management paradigm, the need to study pest behavior, and the influence of human behavior and decision making.
