insect and their products commercialization

A Career Perspective on Citrus Rootstocks, Their Development, and Commercialization

Professor Hume was right: rootstocks are critical and much is still to be learned. Rootstocks and scions are the foundation of many tree fruit industries of the world. Together, those components establish profitability, but it can be argued that the rootstock is the critical component; otherwise, scions would be grown on their own roots everywhere. There is no precedent for the failure of a cit...

Toxicity of Aromatic Plants and Their Constituents Against Coleopteran Stored Products Insect Pests

Bacteria and Their Products

Insect Sperm: Their Structure and Morphogenesis

The thorough descriptive studies by the early cytologists Meves (1901, 1907), Retzius (1904, 1909), Bowen (1920, 1922 a-c, 1924), Pollister (1930), and Johnson (1931) provided later workers with a remarkably accurate picture of the microscopic anatomy of insect spermatozoa and of spermiogenesis in several insect species . Their light microscope observations were necessarily lacking in detail, h...

Prostaglandins and Their Receptors in Insect Biology

We treat the biological significance of prostaglandins (PGs) and their known receptors in insect biology. PGs and related eicosanoids are oxygenated derivatives of arachidonic acid (AA) and two other C20 polyunsaturated fatty acids. PGs are mostly appreciated in the context of biomedicine, but a growing body of literature indicates the biological significance of these compounds extends througho...

Insect pests of tea and their management.

Globally, 1031 species of arthropods are associated with the intensively managed tea Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze monoculture. All parts of the plant, leaf, stem, root, flower, and seed, are fed upon by at least one pest species, resulting in an 11%-55% loss in yield if left unchecked. There has been heavy use of organosynthetic pesticides since the 1950s to defend the plant against these p...