Title: Plant resistance to insects :
Authors: Smith, C. Michael
Date: 1989
Publisher: Wiley,
Physical description: viii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: S
Abstract: Discusses how to identify and develop plant materials with resistance to insect pests. Covers terminology and categories of resistance, and presents techniques for studying plant resistance. Also gives consideration to potentially resistant material. Examines the molecular biology and genetics of insect resistance in crop plants, and insect genes capable of overcoming resistance to form insect biophytes. The closing chapter presents hitherto unpublished information on the use of transgenic plants with insect resistance and assesses the ways that insect resistant cultivars work with other management techniques to suppress insect populations.
Notes: "A Wiley-Interscience publication." Includes indexes.
Subject headings (LCSH): Plants--Insect resistance