Eriophyoid Mites Progress and Prognoses [Hardcover]

Fourteen informative papers dealing with their DNA, species interactions, adventiveness, host specificity, potential as boi-contol agents of weeds, chemical control, behaviour, their role in fungal pathogen epidemiology, influence in forests and on ornamentals, collecting and mounting techniques and their interaction with crops are presented here. This is an extensive and valuable contribution to eriophyoid science and a must for present and future researchers in this field.

This book examines the plant parasitic superfamily Eriophyoidea, including their DNA, species interactions, quarantine importance, host specificity, potential as biological control agents of weeds, chemical control, and their interaction with crops.

Fourteen informative papers dealing with their DNA, species interactions, adventiveness, host specificity, potential as boi-contol agents of weeds, chemical control, behaviour, their role in fungal pathogen epidemiology, influence in forests and on ornamentals, collecting and mounting techniques and their interaction with crops are presented here. This is an extensive and valuable contribution to eriophyoid science and a must for present and future researchers in this field.Preface; E. A. Ueckermann. Whats cool on eriophyoid mites? Enrico de Lillo and Anna Skoracka. Behavioural studies on eriophyoid mites: an overview; Katarzyna Michalska, Anna Skoracka, Denise Navia and James W. Amrine . Planteriophyoid mite interactions: cellular biochemistry and metabolic responses induced in mite-injured plants. Part I; Radmila Petanovi? and Malgorzata Kielkiewicz. Planteriophyoid mite interactions: specific and unspecific morphological alterations. Part II; Radmila Petanovi? and Malgorzata Kielkiewicz. Host-plant specificity and specialization in eriophyoid mites and their importance for the use of eriophyoid mites as biocontrol agents of weeds; Anna Skoracka, Lincoln Smith, George Oldfield, Massimo Cristofaro and James W. Amrine. EfflS—