S. Smith, Pestic. Outlook, 2003, 14, 21 DOI: 10.1039/B211205C
Monte R. Miles and Glen L. Hartman, USDA, Agricultural Research Service based at Urbana, Illinois, USA; Clive Levy, Commercial Farmers Union of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe; and Wilfrido Morel, Centro Regional de Investigacin Agrcola, Direction de Investigacion Agricola, Ministero de Agricultura y Granaderia, Capitn Miranda, Itapa, Paraguay, describe the latest on fungicide control of soybean rust.
A. Fournier, F. Whitford, T. J. Gibb and C. Y. Oseto, Pestic. Outlook, 2003, 14, 36 DOI: 10.1039/B300669G
Don Weber from USDA-ARS describes this infamous pest of potato and continuing efforts to outsmart it.
Rothamsted Research (Rres) is the UK's primary scientific establishment concerned with sustainable plant-based agriculture and interactions with the environment. Here, the director, Professor Ian Crute and Elspeth Bartlet, Head of Science Communications, explain how redevelopment at Rothamsted is enhancing Rres science and outline their vision for the next decade.
Erich Jelen and Andreas Weber from the Fraunhofer-Institut fur Umwelt-, Sicherheits- und Energietechnik UMSICHT in Oberhausen, Achim Unger from Rathgen Forschungslabor in Berlin and Manfried Eisbein from Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege Sachsen in Dresden describe a new method to remove unsightly pesticide residues from wooden art treasures.
Nick R. Price and Richard W. Watkins from the UK's Defra/Central Science Laboratory at Sand Hutton, York, discuss the use of computer-aided molecular design and QSAR in predicting the toxicity and ecotoxicity of pesticides from molecular structure.
D. Pinniger, Pestic. Outlook, 2003, 14, 10 DOI: 10.1039/B300660N
Toby Bruce, John Pickett and Lesley Smart from Rothamsted Research at Harpenden in the UK describe a volatile plant activator which could have an important part to play in plant defence mechanisms.
Yulin Jia, Research Molecular Plant Pathologist of the United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center. (Email: yjia@spa.ars.usda.gov) outlines the principal application of DNA-based markers that can be used for accelerating the development of blast-resistant cultivars.
John Fisher, General Secretary of BCPC, describes the history, evolution and future direction of a major organisation in the science and practice of crop protection.
Following the series of articles on the regulation of biocides in Europe (Pesticide Outlook, 2003, 14(2), 65-75), Frank T. Sanders, Director of the Antimicrobials Division of the US-EPA Office of Pesticide Programs, describes how the USA regulates what it terms "antimicrobial pesticides".
Charles Benbrook of Benbrook Consulting Services, Charles Mellinger and Galen Frantz of Glades Crop Care, and Deana Sexson, Walt Stevenson and Jeffrey Wyman of the University of Wisconsin.
D. A. Herms, Pestic. Outlook, 2003, 14, 14 DOI: 10.1039/B300657N
Thomas P. Kuhar (Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech), Michael P. Hoffmann (Department of Entomology, Cornell University), and Mark G. Wright (Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, University of Hawaii) summarize current reasearch with Trichogramma ostriniae for control of European corn borer in vegetable crops.
Bala S. Sugavanam and John Vijgen give the background, history and latest achievements.
