'Push-Pull' Revisited: The Process of Successful Deployment of a Chemical Ecology Based Pest Management Tool

Biodiversity and Insect Pests: Key Issues for Sustainable Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 259-275

  Khan, Zeyaur R ^a   Midega, Charles A O ^a   Pittchar, Jimmy ^a   Bruce, Toby J A ^b   Pickett, John A ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Push pull' revisited, chemical ecology based pest management tool; Chemical ecology of push pull; Edible beans into push pull; Farmers' perceptions of push pull; Napier stunt disease; Push pull and agroecologies; Push pull cropping innovation; Push pull system, cereal stemborer control; Stemborer control, and companion plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886525778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118231838.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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