Artificial Rearing of Reduviid Predators for Pest Management

Artificial Rearing of Reduviid Predators for Pest Management

Balasubramanian, R.; Sahayaraj, K.

Springer Verlag, Singapore

12/2016

180

Dura

Inglês

9789811025211

15 a 20 dias


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119,99 €

This eye-opening book focuses on the development of techniques to mass-produce reduviid predators and important generalist predators, an endeavor that won't prove sufficient if the cost of commercialization is prohibitive.
Chapter 1 Reduviid: an important Biological Control Agent 1.1. Current scenario of crop damage due to insect attack 1.2. Reduviid in agro-ecosystems 1.3. Other agro-ecosystems 1.4. Reasons for consideration of reduviids in pest control 1.5. Routine methods for laboratory rearing 1.6. Devices used for reduviid mass production 1.7. Constraints in rearing 1.8. Artificial rearing: needs and benefits1.9. Conclusion1.10. Future recommendations Chapter 2 Feeding behaviour against Meridic Artificial diet 2.1. Background for the chapter 2.2. Importance of Rhynocoris marginatus in biological control 2.3. Meridic diet (MD) development 2.4. Feeding Behavioral on meridic diet 2.5. Best Strain selection 2.6. Insect prey preference after fed with meridic diet 2.7. Conclusion 2.8. Future recommendationsChapter 3 Biology 3.1. Meridic diet for rearing hemipteran predators 3.2. Meridic diet on chosen Reduviidae Biology 3.3. Meridic diet on Rhynocoris marginatus Biology 3.4. Demerits of the artificial diets 3.5. Conclusion 3.6. Future recommendations Chapter 4 Gut-Autochthonous Microbes and their enzyme profile 4.1. Microbial Diversity in Insect Gut 4.2. Microbial Diversity in Heteropteran Predators Gut 4.3. Artificial Diet and Reduviid gut Microbiology 4.4. Total heterotrophic bacterial population 4.5. Gut autochthonous microbes 4.6. Hydrolytic Extra Cellular Enzyme 4.7. Conclusion 4.8. Future recommendations Chapter 5 Gut Enzyme Profile 5.1. Enzyme Activity of hemipteran predators 5.2. Reduviid Predators enzymology 5.3. Qualitative enzyme profile Methodology 5.4. Quantitative Enzyme Bioassays 5.5. Salivary gland enzyme profile 5.6. Conclusion 5.7. Future recommendations Chapter 6 Body total Protein and genomic DNA 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Total Macromolecule Content 6.3. Protein profiling 6.4. Genomic DNA profiling 6.5. Genetic analysis 6.6. PCR for gut content analyses 6.7. Immunology 6.7.1. Effect of Meal on Antigen and Antibody Interaction 6.7.2. Indirect ELISA (Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) 6.7.3. Effect of predator protein content on ELISA sensitivity 6.8. Conclusions 6.9. Future recommendations Chapter 7 Field Evaluation 7.1. Biological control and overview 7.2. Commercially available entomophagous insects 7.3. Field evaluation of reduviids a world-wide scenario 7.4. Bioefficacy of reduviid reared artificially 7.5. Conclusions 7.6. Future recommendations General Recommendations Species index Subject index
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