Progress in Pesticide Biochemistry and Toxicology, Insecticides

In the last thirty years the major classes of chemical insecticides (organochlorines, organophosphorus compounds, carbamates and pyrethroids) have been synthesised and developed into economically important chemicals for agricultural and other purposes. The course of development has moved the compounds in use from effective but persistent to highly effective but relatively non toxic and non persistent.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471907588
• ISBN13: 9780471907589
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 400 Pages