Integrated pest management: principles and practice

1. History, overview and principles of ecologically-based pest management 2. Integrated pest management for sustainable agriculture 3. Pest monitoring and forewarning 4. Conservation and augmentation of natural enemies 5. Biotechnological and molecular approaches in management of insect pests and diseases of crop plants 6. Botanicals in pest management 7. Biopesticides in ecologically-based integrated pest management 8. Entomopathogenic nematodes for insect control and slug-parasitic nematodes in integrated pest management systems 9. Microbial control of crop pests using entomopathogenic fungi 10. Microbial control of crop pests using insect viruses 11. Biological control of weeds with plant pathogens: classical and bioherbicide approaches 12. Virus-transmitting insect vectors and their management 13. Effect of pesticides on non target sites with reference to soil ecosystem 14. Integrated pest management in stored grains 15. Role of integrated pest management in food and nutritional security 16. Role of information technology in pest management 17. Challenges and opportunities for integrated pest management in urban landscapes.