This book aims to synthesize the latest scientific literature into principles and practices relevant to workers in crop pollination. Particular focus is on bee-pollinated crops of significant or emerging economic importance in the temperate developed world, crops for which there is significant...

This chapter reviews how changes in pesticide use during the past 20 years have affected biological control research and implementation in Canada. Focus is given on the development of pesticide resistance by pests, nontarget effects of pesticides, use of pest-resistant crops, and management of...

This chapter focuses on melon/cotton aphid (Aphis gossypii), foxglove aphid (Aulacorthum solani), potato aphid (Macrosiphum euphorbiae) and green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), providing an overview of their occurrence in greenhouse crops (including fruit, vegetable, flower and spice crops) across...

This chapter focuses on plant bugs (Lygus spp.) infesting vegetables, fruits, greenhouse crops, rape (Brassica napus [Brassica napus var. oleifera]), Brassica rapa [Brassica campestris] and lucerne in Canada, and provides an overview of the biological control agents and parasitoids that have been...

This chapter focuses on Pythium spp., the causal agents of damping off in seedlings and root and crown rot diseases of field and greenhouse crops, vegetables and turfgrass in Canada, and provides an overview of the bacteria (e.g. Pantoea agglomerans, Erwinia rhapontici and Pseudomonas fluorescens)...

This chapter focuses on Rhizoctonia solani, the causal agent of damping off and seedling blight, root rot, leaf spot, stem rot and black scurf in a wide rage of field crops, vegetables and ornamentals throughout Canada, and provides an overview of the bacteria (including Pseudomonas, Xanthomonas,...

This chapter focuses on Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Sclerotinia minor, the causal agents of sclerotinia diseases affecting field and vegetable crops in Canada, and provides an overview of the bacteria (including Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus cereus) and fungi (such as Coniothyrium minitans,...

This chapter introduces the crops that, although traditionally grown, will most likely persist for cultivation in the future because of their diverse use which can be further enhanced by genetic improvement. These crops include cereals and pseudocereals; legumes; edible and industrial oil-producing ...

This chapter describes the levels of adoption of integrated pest management (IPM) in the USA, North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa, and factors affecting such. Tabulated data on the following are provided: features of pesticide technology and IPM; adoption of IPM in field, vegetable,...

This book is arranged in two sections: the first five chapters cover the genetic mechanisms associated with plant evolution (chromosome structure and genetic variability, assortment of genetic variability, the multifactorial genome, polyploidy and gene duplication, and speciation). The second...