Table of Contents:
  • Development of natural products and their derivatives for pest control in the 21st century / Paul A. Hedin, Julius J. Menn, and Robert M. Hollingworth
  • Natural products as sources of pest management agents / Koji Nakanishi
  • Microbial secondary metabolites as a source of agrochemicals / Richard J. Stonard, Stephen W. Ayer, John J. Kotyk, Leo J. Letendre, Carolyn I. McGary, Thomas E. Nickson, Ngo LeVan, and Paul B. Lavrik
  • Role of natural products in pesticide discovery : the [beta]-methoxyacrylate fungicides / John M. Clough, David A. Evans, Paul J. de Fraine, Torquil E.M. Fraser, Christopher R.A. Godfrey, and David Youle
  • Advances in research and development of avermectins / H. Mrozik
  • Hydantocidin and cornexistin : new herbicidal antibiotics / Shuji Takahashi, Mutsuo Nakajima, Takeshi Kinoshita, Hideyuki Haruyama, Soji Sugai, Toyokuni Honma, Sadao Sato, and Tatsuo Haneishi
  • Advances in the use of brassinosteroids / Horace G. Cutler
  • Advances in neem and azadirachtin chemistry and bioactivity / Dale J. Hansen, John Cuomo, Mamunur Khan, Rex T. Gallagher, and William P. Ellenberger
  • Ryanoid chemistry and action / Phillip R. Jefferies and John E. Casida
  • Natural products as sources of potential agrochemicals / Muraleedharan G. Nair
  • Insecticidal and antifeedant activities of plant compounds : potential leads for novel pesticides / Pierre Escoubas, Labunmi Lajide, and Junya Mizutani
  • Aphicidal activity of cuticular components from Nicotiana tabacum / R.F. Severson, R.V.W. Eckel, D.M. Jackson, V.A. Sisson, and M.G. Stephenson
  • Use of peptides in the pursuit of novel pest control agents / Edward P. Masler
  • Sex peptides : potentially important and useful regulators of insect reproduction / J.R. Miller, J.L. Spencer, A.J. Lentz, J.E. Keller, E.D. Walker, and J.F. Leykam
  • Pseudopeptide mimetic analogs of insect neuropeptides / Ronald J. Nachman, Jefferson W. Tilley, Timothy K. Hayes, G. Mark Holman, and Ross C. Beier
  • The role of propeptide hormone protein conformation in limited endoproteolysis / Processing mammalian hypothalamic progonadotropin-releasing hormone (GNRH) precursor protein / Robert B. Harris, Jun ling You, Saskia C.F. Milton, Raymond C. DeLisle Milton, N.S. Rangaraju, and Christopher P. Baker
  • Venom toxins reveal ion channel diversity / Michael E. Adams
  • Targeting locust muscle glutamate receptors with polyamine-containing toxins : possible strategy for insecticide development / P.N.R. Usherwood
  • Biorational control of weeds and fungi with peptides / Alan R. Lax, John M. Bland, and Hurley S. Shepherd
  • Design of antifungal peptides for agricultural applications / Nicholas P. Everett
  • Insect neuropeptides : current status and avenues for pest control / Thomas J. Kelly, Edward P. Masler, and Julius J. Menn
  • Natural and engineered viral agents / James L. Vaughn
  • Nuclear polyhedrosis viruses for insect control / John J. Hamm
  • Granulosis viruses in insect control / Louis Falcon
  • Recombinant baculovirus expressing an insect-selective neurotoxin : characterization, strategies for improvement, and risk assessment / B.F. McCutchen and Bruce D. Hammock
  • Insect control by use of recombinant baculoviruses expressing juvenile hormone esterase / Bryony C. Bonning and Bruce D. Hammock
  • Formulation and application of viral insecticides / S.Y. Young
  • EMIL, a system for computer-aided structure transformation of bioactive compounds : application to synthetic pyrethroid series / Toshio Fujita, Keiichiro Nishimura, Zhi-Ming Cheng, Hirosuke Yoshioka, Yoshihiro Minamite, and Yoshio Katsuda
  • Biochemical approaches to herbicide discovery : enzyme target selection and inhibitor design / Alan R. Rendina and Lynn M. Abell
  • Investigation of the origins of specificity and reactivity in N-linked protein glycosylation / B. Imperiali and K.W. Rickert
  • Ethylene biosynthesis from 1-aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid : interplay of molecular genetics and organic mechanism / Michael C. Pirrung
  • Inhibition of photosynthesis by substituted 4-nitrophenols in wildtype and five mutants of Chlamydomonas reinkardtii thylakoids : structure-activity and molecular modeling studies / W. Draber, U. Hilp, M. Schindler, and A. Trebst
  • Registration of biopesticides / Jack R. Plimmer and Richard M. Parry, Jr.
  • Managing the regulatory process / J.H. Davis and P.S. Carlson
  • Encouraging research, development, and commercialization in agricultural biotechnology / Alvin L. Young, Daniel D. Jones, and James C. Staton
  • Effect of regulation of pheromones as chemical pesticides on their viability in insect control / Terry D. Spittler
  • Good laboratory practice regulations : applications to field studies / Judy Hochman and Willa Garner.