Pesticide Chemistry and Bioscience
The Food-Environment Challenge

G. T. Brooks (Edited by), T. Roberts (Edited by)

9781855738102, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 1 January 1999

446 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm, 0.8 kg

This volume, with contributions from leading international experts, reports on the need to produce high quality food whilst satisfying environmental concerns. Including material on natural products, modes of action and metabolism, it covers all the key areas in pesticide chemistry and related activities. The contents outline the developments that have taken place in approaches to crop protection and our ability to develop complex, environmentally acceptable strategies for weed, pest and disease control.

Part 1 Plenary lectures. Part 2 Synthesis and structure—activity relationships. Part 3 Delivery. Part 4 Natural products. Part 5 Mode of action and resistance. Part 6 Metabolism. Part 7 Environmental fate. Part 8 Residues in food and the environment. Part 9 Regulation and risk assessment.

Subject Areas: Agronomy & crop production [TVK], Food & beverage technology [TDCT]