Biological control provides an environmentally safe, cost-effective and energyefficient
means of pest control, either alone or as a component of integrated pest management. The …

The world's food supply needs to rise significantly, yet both arable and water supplies per
capita are decreasing. Not only are modern agricultural methods beyond the reach of those …

Pesticides are widely used for crop protection in agriculture, plantation and forestry.
Pesticides, when sprayed or dusted in the fields, only a small amount fall directly on the …

Although a large number of pesticides of different compositions are regularly used in
agriculture, the impact of pesticides on the physiology of field crops is not well understood …

Abstract Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), a perennial woody shrub with an indeterminate
growth habit, evolved in tropical, relatively dry areas of the world. Through adaptive …

Insecticides are often used to establish pest density and yield-loss relationships to
determine economic injuries. However, the impacts of insecticides on plant gas-exchange …

Several cotton insecticides were evaluated for their effect on cotton plant. Twenty-four
different plant parameters were evaluated. Main-stem node number of the first fruiting node …

为合理评价杀虫剂及烟草生态安全性提供理论参考依据, 以烟草生产中常用的4
种杀虫剂处理烟草幼苗, 并对其叶绿素含量进行了测定. 结果表明, 阿维菌素 …

Early season applications of the insecticide chlordimeform [N'‐(4‐chloro‐o‐tolyl)‐N, N‐
dimethylformamidine](CDF), have increased cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) lint yields …