Recent Advances in Stored Product Protection

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Athanassiou, Christos G. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Arthur, Frank H. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Entomology.; Food-Biotechnology.; Animal ecology.; Plant pathology.; Food Science.; Animal Ecology.; Plant Pathology.

This book aims to assess, evaluate and critically analyze the methods that are currently available for a judicious pest management in durable food. It presents and analyzes a vast amount of methods that are already in use in "real world" industrial applications. After the phase-out of meth...

Table of Contents:

• Insect pest management in stored grain
• Structural pest management for stored product insects
• Bacterial insecticides and inert materials
• Importance of stored product insects
• Human health problems and accidents associated with occurrence and control of storage arthropods and rodents
• Emerging pests in durable stored products
• Biological control of stored product insects
• Microbial biopesticides
• Insect pest management of oilseed crops, tree nuts and dried fruits
• Insecticide resistance
• Museum pests- Cultural heritage pests
• Economic theory vs reality in stored grain IPM: Theory and practice in stored product management.