Academic Press Insect Resistance Management: Biology, Economics, and Prediction

Insect Resistance Management: Biology, Economics, and Prediction, Third Edition offers a foundational basis for understanding pest biology, a necessity for working with pest management and resistance management. For years, entomologists have understood that, with their use of economic thresholds, a minimal use of economics is necessary for proper integrated pest management (IPM). Meanwhile, insect resistance management, or IRM, is even more complicated and dependent on an understanding and use of socioeconomic factors. This update includes a new chapter focusing on resistance mechanisms related to plant-incorporated toxins and heavily expanded revisions of some existing chapters. 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 with a large new section on uncertainty analysis, a subject recently emphasized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Review Provides vital new information to this foundational insect resistance management text From the Back Cover <i>Insect Resistance Management: Biology, Economics, and Prediction, Third Edition </i>offers a foundational basis for understanding pest biology, a necessity for working with pest management and resistance management. For years, entomologists have understood that, with their use of economic thresholds, a minimal use of economics is necessary for proper integrated pest management (IPM); meanwhile, insect resistance management, or IRM, is even more complicated and dependent on the understanding and use of socioeconomic factors. This latest edition of Insect Resistance Management addresses these issues and much more.<br><br>This book includes a new chapter focusing on resistance mechanisms related to plant-incorporated toxins and heavily expanded revisions of several existing chapters. 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.<br><br><i>Insect Resistance Management: Biology, Economics, and Prediction, Third Edition </i>is an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners in entomology and IRM work particularly. Graduate students in entomology courses, as well as applied ecology and agricultural economics researchers, may also find this latest edition useful and relevant. About the Author Dr. David Onstad worked as a professor for 26 years at the University of Illinois before starting work in a major agricultural technology company. He now performs research for Corteva Agriscience. Ecological modeling and economics of insect IPM have been the two main subjects of his research with an emphasis on resistance management for the past 25 years. Dr. Lisa Knolhoff has worked in academia, industry, and government, and is currently a biotechnology reviewer at USDA-APHIS Biotechnology Regulatory Services. As part of this role, she conducts risk assessments for both genetically engineered plants and insects. Her scientific background includes insect behavior, genetics, and genomics, and has worked with both crop pests and medical pests. She speaks on risk assessment and regulation of biotech organisms in agriculture, as well as specifically on engineered and gene drive insects. She has contributed chapters to both previous editions of Insect Resistance Management.