Natural and Engineered Pest Management Agents Book

	Preface
	Innovation in Discovery: The Career of Toshio Fujita
1	Development of Natural Products and Their Derivatives for Pest Control in the 21st Century	2
2	Natural Products as Sources of Pest Management Agents	11
3	Microbial Secondary Metabolites as a Source of Agrochemicals	25
4	Role of Natural Products in Pesticide Discovery: The [beta]-Methoxyacrylate Fungicides	37
5	Advances in Research and Development of Avermectins	54
6	Hydantocidin and Cornexistin: New Herbicidal Antibiotics	74
7	Advances in the Use of Brassinosteroids	85
8	Advances in Neem and Azadirachtin Chemistry and Bioactivity	103
9	Ryanoid Chemistry and Action	130
10	Natural Products as Sources of Potential Agrochemicals	145
11	Insecticidal and Antifeedant Activities of Plant Compounds: Potential Leads for Novel Pesticides	162
12	Aphicidal Activity of Cuticular Components from Nicotiana tabacum	172
13	Use of Peptides in the Pursuit of Novel Pest Control Agents	182
14	Sex Peptides: Potentially Important and Useful Regulators of Insect Reproduction	189
15	Pseudopeptide Mimetic Analogs of Insect Neuropeptides	210
16	The Role of Propeptide Hormone Protein Conformation in Limited Endoproteolysis: Processing Mammalian Hypothalamic Progonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) Precursor Protein	230
17	Venom Toxins Reveal Ion Channel Diversity	249
18	Targeting Locust Muscle Glutamate Receptors with Polyamine-Containing Toxins: Possible Strategy for Insecticide Development	259
19	Biorational Control of Weeds and Fungi with Peptides	268
20	Design of Antifungal Peptides for Agricultural Applications	278
21	Insect Neuropeptides: Current Status and Avenues for Pest Control	292
22	Natural and Engineered Viral Agents	320
23	Nuclear Polyhedrosis Viruses for Insect Control	324
24	Granulosis Viruses in Insect Control	336
25	Recombinant Baculovirus Expressing an Insect-Selective Neurotoxin: Characterization, Strategies for Improvement, and Risk Assessment	348
26	Insect Control by Use of Recombinant Baculoviruses Expressing Juvenile Hormone Esterase	368
27	Formulation and Application of Viral Insecticides	384
28	EMIL, a System for Computer-Aided Structure Transformation of Bioactive Compounds: Application to Synthetic Pyrethroid Series	396
29	Biochemical Approaches to Herbicide Discovery: Enzyme Target Selection and Inhibitor Design	407
30	Investigation of the Origins of Specificity and Reactivity in N-Linked Protein Glycosylation	425
31	Ethylene Biosynthesis from 1-Aminocyclopropanecarboxylic Acid: Interplay of Molecular Genetics and Organic Mechanism	436
32	Inhibition of Photosynthesis by Substituted 4-Nitrophenols in Wildtype and Five Mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Thylakoids: Structure - Activity and Molecular Modeling Studies	449
33	Registration of Biopesticides	474
34	Managing the Regulatory Process	490
35	Encouraging Research, Development, and Commercialization in Agricultural Biotechnology	497
36	Effect of Regulation of Pheromones as Chemical Pesticides on Their Viability in Insect Control	509
37	Good Laboratory Practice Regulations: Applications to Field Studies	516
	Author Index	537
	Affiliation Index	538
	Subject Index	538