Plant breeding for resistance to insect pests
Subtitle: considerations about the use of induced mutations : proceedings of an Advisory Group Meeting on the Use of Induced Mutations for Resistance of Crop Plants to Insects organized by the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Atomic Energy in Food and Agriculture and held at Dakar, Senegal, 17-21 October 1977.
Contributors: International Atomic Energy Agency.; Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Atomic Energy in Food and Agriculture.
Series: IAEA -- 215.
Publisher: IAEA
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Vienna
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Plant mutation breeding -- Congresses.; Plants -- Insect resistance -- Congresses.; Plant-breeding.; Plant parasites.; Insect-plant relationships.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Considerations about the use of induced mutations.
Notes: Addendum sheet laid in.

"A technical document issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1978."

Includes bibliographical references.

English and French.
Table of contents: value: Breeding for insect resistance in cotton / H. Khalifa; value: Insect resistance in cotton / T.F. Leigh; value: Breeding vegetable crops for resistance to insect pests / Prem Nath; value: Cereal crop resistance to insects in the United States: an example of an induced mutation / K.J. Starks and E.E. Sebesta; value: Host plant resistance to major insect pests of sorghum / N.G.P. Rao, B.S. Rana, M.G. Jotwani; value: La resistance des graminees aux lepidopteres foreurs / P. Anglade; value: La resistance varietale de la luzerne (Medigo sativa L.) aux insectes.  Interet et conception des programmes relatifs aux aphides / R. Bournoville; value: Possible advantages of small differences in resistance to aphids / H.J.B. Lowe; value: In tracing insect resistant plants in mutagen treated populations technically and economically feasible / O.M.B. de Ponti; value: Conclusions and recommendations.