Ebook: Bioregulators for Pest Control

Content: Physiological basis of phloem transport of agrichemicals / Robert T. Giaquinta -- Interference by herbicides with photosynthetic electron transfer / Walter Oettmeier -- New approaches to chemical control of plant pathogens / Nancy N. Ragsdale and Malcolm R. Siegel -- Elicitation of disease resistance in plants by the expression of latent genetic information / Steven D. Salt and Joseph Kuć -- Use of subtoxic herbicide pretreatments to improve crop tolerance to herbicides / G.R. Stephenson and G. Ezra -- Regulation of plant growth and development by endogenous hormones / Thomas C. Moore -- Plant bioregulators : overview, use, and development / Johannes Jung -- Effects of allelopathic chemicals on crop productivity / F.A. Einhellig -- Use of transition-state theory in the development of bioactive molecules / Yehia A.I. Abdel-Aal and Bruce D. Hammock -- Role of mixed-function oxidases in insect growth and development / C.F. Wilkinson -- Inhibition of reproduction in insect control / Alexej B. Bořkovec -- Potent insect antifeedants from the African medicinal plant Bersama abyssinica / Isao Kubo and Takeshi Matsumoto -- Cockroach control with juvenoids / Gerardus B. Staal, Clive A. Henrick, David L. Grant, David W. Moss, Michael C. Johnston, Robin R. Rudolph, and William A. Donahue -- Some chemical ecological approaches to the control of stored-product insects and mites / Izuru Yamamoto -- Phytochemical disruption of insect development and behavior / William S. Bowers -- Proallatocidins / Francisco Camps -- Propionate and methyl malonate metabolism in insects / Gary J. Blomquist, Premjit P. Halarnkar, and Lawrence A. Dwyer -- Suicidal destruction of cytochrome P-450 in the design of inhibitors of insect juvenile hormone biosynthesis / René Feyereisen, Dan E. Farnsworth, Kathryn S. Prickett, and Paul R. Ortiz De Montellano -- Detoxification enzyme relationships in arthropods of differing feeding strategies / Christopher A. Mullin -- [Delta]-endotoxin of Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis : broad-spectrum toxicity and neural response elicited in mice and insects / R. Michael Roe, Peter Y.K. Cheung, Bruce D. Hammock, Dan Buster, and A. Randall Alford -- Bioassay of anti juvenile hormone compounds : an alternative approach / Thomas C. Sparks, R. Michael Roe, Adrian Buehler, and Bruce D. Hammock -- Applications of immunoassay to paraquat and other pesticides / J.M. Van Emon, J.N. Seiber, and B.D. Hammock -- Role of natural product chemistry / J.R. Plimmer -- Do plants "psychomanipulate" insects? / L.L. Murdock, G. Brookhart, R.S. Edgecomb, T.F. Long, and L. Sudlow -- Protein hydrolysate volatiles as insect attractants / Kent E. Matsumoto, Ron G. Buttery, Robert A. Flath, T. Richard Mon, and Roy Teranishi -- Beetles : pheromonal chemists par excellence / J.H. Tumlinson -- Sexual messages of moths : chemical themes are known and new research challenges arise / Jerome A. Klun -- Alkaloidal ant venoms : chemistry and biological activities / Murray S. Blum -- Use of natural products and their analogues for combating pests of agricultural and public health importance in Africa / D.L. Whitehead -- Insect antifeedant terpenoids in wild sunflower : a possible source of resistance to the sunflower moth / Jonathan Gershenzon, Marycarol Rossiter, Tom J. Mabry, Charlie E. Rogers, Michael H. Blust, and Theodore L. Hopkins -- Insect feeding deterrents from semiarid and arid land plants / Eloy Rodriguez -- Secondary metabolites from plants and their allelochemic effects / Horace G. Cutler -- Insect antifeedants from the Peruvian plant Alchornea triplinervia / D. Howard Miles, Barbara L. Hankinson, and Shirley A. Randle -- Biotechnology in crop improvement / John T. Marvel -- Why are green caterpillars green? / John K. Kawooya, Pamela S. Keim, John H. Law, Clark T. Riley, Robert O. Ryan, and Jeffrey P. Shapiro