Título del libro: Sustainable Food Science - A Comprehensive Approach: Volumes 1-4
Título del capítulo: Strategies to Reduce Insecticide Use in Agricultural Production
MARIO SOBERON CHAVEZ; MARIA ALEJANDRA BRAVO DE LA PARRA;
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Año de publicación:
2023
Palabras clave:
Biopesticides; Genetically-engineered crops and pests; Insecticide resistance management; Integrated pest management; Precision agriculture
Resumen:
Insecticides are an important component of agricultural and animal production. While their use usually enhances productivity and reliability, they may produce undesirable consequences such as higher production costs, environmental contamination, as well as harmful effects on non-target organisms. The improvement of novel insecticides has evolved to alleviate these negative effects. In the past half century, safer pest-specific insecticides have been discovered and their use now implies lower amounts of active ingredient per area, while are less persistent in the environment compared with the previously used insecticides. Some strategies have reduced insecticide use such as integrated pest management that is focuses on insect-specific chemicals that are applied only when needed; the use of genetically-engineered crops and genetically-engineered insects that reduce many of the insecticide applications targeted for lepidopteran, coleopteran, dipteran and hemipteran pests; the application of precision agriculture that has shown that site-specific application of variable rates of insecticides results in a reduction of the general over-use of these chemicals; the monitoring of insecticide susceptibility in targeted pests that reduces the need of higher doses and extra spray-applications, and lastly, the use of biopesticides and synthetic insecticides with specific modes-of-action that reduces overall insecticidal load in the environment. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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ISBN:
9780128241660
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Elsevier Nombre de la publicación:
Strategies to Reduce Insecticide Use in Agricultural Production
Página inicial:
4
Página final:
514
