Pesticides Advances in Chemical and Botanical Pesticides

This book volume comprises of three different sections of which first section is on Pesticide Toxicity with seven chapters. The section covers the mode of action of pyrethroid group compounds, toxic effects of malathion on Indian toads and status of farmers’ friend ‘earthworm’ in soils of natural and agriculture-livestock fields. In addition, the toxicity of pesticides on cyanobacteria and natural enemies, some of nontraditional pesticide compounds are also elaborately described. The second section of the volume deals with botanical pesticides and pest management in six chapters. Recently the pest management packages for agricultural and horticultural crops are formulated with non-chemical approach by including botanical and microbial pesticides. Biotechnological and molecular approaches are recent advancement in pest management. This section is mainly focused on plants and plant products having pesticidal principles and biotechnological approaches for insect pest management. An interesting technique of LIRA to recognize insect larval density in the field as forecast for applying pesticide and other management tactics is also included in this section. The third section deals with biomarkers in the pesticide assay in two chapters. Recently biomarkers are used for pesticide assays. Biosensors are innovative components used to determine quantitative and qualitative parameters of pesticide compounds and the detection is fast, reliable and with high portability.