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Pesticide Chemistry and Bioscience

The Food-Environment Challenge

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 1999
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: G. T. Brooks, T. Roberts
  • Language: English

This volume, with contributions from leading international experts, reports on the need to produce high quality food whilst satisfying environmental concerns. Including material on… Read more

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Description

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.

Readership

Agricultural and environmental scientists and food scientists

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.

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 1999
  • Language: English

About the editor

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T. Roberts

Affiliations and expertise
Consultant, Environmental Resources Ltd., London, UK

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