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Sustainable Pest Management in Date Palm: Current Status and Emerging Challenges

A recent report on the arthropod fauna of date palm, enlists 112 species of insects and mites associated with date palm worldwide including 22 species attacking stored dates. Enhanced monoculture of date palm in several date palm growing countries coupled with climate change, unrestrained use of chemical insecticides and extensive international trade is likely to impact the pest complex and the related natural enemies in the date agro-ecosystems. In view of the importance of date palm as an emerging crop of the future and the need to develop and deploy ecologically sound and socially acceptable IPM techniques, this book aims to comprehensively address issues related to the biology and sustainable management of major insect and mite pests of date palm by assessing the current IPM strategies available, besides addressing emerging challenges and future research priorities. The issues pertaining to the role of semiochemicals in date palm IPM involving new strategies revolving around “attract and kill” and “push-pull” technologies, phytoplasmas and their insect vectors with implications for date palm, innovative methods for managing storage pests of dates and knowledge gaps in devicing sustainable strategies for the management of red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) are also addressed

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Series Title
Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection
Call Number
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Publisher
Cham : Springer.,
Collation
XX, 429
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
978-3-319-24397-9
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NONE
Content Type
text
Media Type
computer
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Edition
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Subject(s)
Plant Pathology
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Jemadi
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https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-319-24397-9.pdf?pdf=button
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