Description
Abstract:This 31-chapter volume provides insight into many biologically active products that promise relief from a broad spectrum of agricultural problems. Individual chapters discuss such topics as structure-function relationships for naturally occurring cyclic peptides, production of herbicidal and insecticidal metabolites by soil microorganisms, biological activities of fungal products, phenol glucosides in plant defense against herbivores, allelopathy as a model for natural herbicide actions, terpenoids as models for new agrochemicals, plant constituents as oviposition deterrents to lepidopterous insects, and pentatomoid sex pheromones
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 483 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780841212329
0841212325