Pesticide Chemistry and Bioscience: The Food-Environment Challenge

by G. T. Brooks (Editor), T. Roberts (Editor)

Overview

This volume, with contributions from leading international experts, reports on the need to produce high quality food whilst satisfying environmental concerns. Including material on natural products, modes of action and metabolism, it covers all the key areas in pesticide chemistry and related activities. The contents outline the developments that have taken place in approaches to crop protection and our ability to develop complex, environmentally acceptable strategies for weed, pest and disease control.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845698416
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	01/01/1999
Series:	Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	446
File size:	12 MB
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Plenary lectures. Part 2 Synthesis and structure—activity relationships. Part 3 Delivery. Part 4 Natural products. Part 5 Mode of action and resistance. Part 6 Metabolism. Part 7 Environmental fate. Part 8 Residues in food and the environment. Part 9 Regulation and risk assessment.