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This fully revised and updated second edition of Insect Pests of Potato now includes an opening section with a basic overview of agronomic and economic issues as they relate to potato production. It also features a new section that reviews potato production, as well as problems caused by insect pests and solutions to these problems, in all major potato-growing regions of the world. Further, a new section discusses theoretical foundations of potato pest management and includes chapters on ecological theory, evolutionary theory, and a case study on their applications to elucidate differences between Eastern and Western populations of Colorado potato beetle in North America. There is also a new chapter on the foundations of integrated pest management and their applications in controlling insect pests.
The sections on the biology of main pests and on control methods now feature the latest information, including emphasis on recent advances in molecular biology and genomics. Information on the use of dsRNA technology for pest control is also included, as are new chapters on potato ladybirds and on hemipterous pests other than aphids and psyllids.
This second edition provides improved integration and logical connections among chapters and expanded geographic scope of coverage making it the ideal reference on the topic.
Contents
I. Potato as an important staple crop
1. Potatoes: past, present, and the future
2. Growing potatoes
3. Potato economics
II. Biology of major pests
4. Colorado potato beetle
5. Aphids
6. Psyllids
7. Wireworms
8. Potato tuberworm
9. Hemiptera other than aphids and psyllids
10. Potato lady beetles
III. Management approaches
11. Chemical control
12. Double-stranded RNA
13. Biological control and behavioral control with semiochemicals
14. Plant resistance
15. Cultural and physical control
IV. Problems and solutions in major potato-producing areas of the world.
16. South America, Central America, and Mexico
17. United States and Canada
18. European Union
19. Russian Federation, Ukraine, and Belarus
20. China and Central Asia
21. India and Southeast Asia
22. Australia and New Zealand
23. Africa
V. Basic science in potato pest management
24. Evolutionary considerations
25. Ecology of a potato field.
26. When a superpest fails: Ecological and evolutionary factors mitigating Colorado potato beetle adaptation to insecticides.
VI. Current challenges and future directions.
27. Integrated pest management
28. Epilogue: Potatoes and their pests in the times of a global change
