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Handbook of Plants With Pest-Control Properties by Michael Grainge and Saleem Ahmed, with the special assistance of Ponciano Epino ... [et al.]; computer programming by Hong-chun "June" Yang, D. Patricia Goddard is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Handbook of Plants With Pest-Control Properties about?

This exhaustive reference presents an easily-accessible database of plants that have pest-control properties. It catalogues 2,300 plant species which have been found to control pre- and post-harvest crop pests, and lists 1,000 more candidate species which are poisonous or have been found to control non-insect animal parasites and diseases. Provides in tabular form: pests controlled, plant characteristics, characteristics of the active materials, method of preparation/extraction, method of application, cautions in use, and complementary plant uses. Appendix lists 500 pest species controlled, along with the plants that control them. Contains nearly 1,400 references.

Author

Michael Grainge and Saleem Ahmed, with the special assistance of Ponciano Epino ... [et al.]; computer programming by Hong-chun "June" Yang, D. Patricia Goddard

Publisher

Honolulu, Hawaii: Resource Systems Institute, East-West Center ; New York: Wiley

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780471632573

Subjects

Agriculture, Stem