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This collection of 34 papers from the June 2003 conference of pesticide scientists includes an overview of changes and challenges facing modern crop production. Other papers present research on biopesticides and transgenic crops, combinatorial chemistry, modes of action, natural products, new chemistry and green chemistry, and human vector control. Contributions include the impact of Bacillus thuringiensis corn pollen on monarch butterfly populations (in which Mark Sears, a University of Guelph researcher, challenges Cornell scientists' claims that Bt corn pollen harmed larvae of the Monarch butterfly); Takaaki Itoh's (Sumitomo Chemical Company) paper on Olyset net, a long lasting insecticidal net for malaria control; and a discussion of computer-aided library design for agrochemical lead generation by James Ruiz and Beth A. Lorsbach (both Discover Research, Dow AgroSciences). Distributed by Oxford U. Press. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
