Advances in Agrochemicals: Ion Channels and G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) As Targets for Pest Control

This book features contributions from the most highly regarded insecticide scientists in the world. Each of their chapters provides molecular insight into well-known targets, prospective new targets, or creative novel techniques for examining interactions between insecticides and their target sites or for evaluating compounds in search of more potent, more selective, or more environmentally friendly active ingredients. An overview of research on voltage-gated sodium channels is especially relevant given the number of historically important and current insecticides that assert their toxic actions at those sites. Other chapters address new methods for investigating action of insecticides (microtransplant techniques and gap junctions), insecticide effects on highly important species (mosquitoes and honey bees), or chemical prospecting in cultured strains of fungi. This book serves as a timely update on several critically important groups of insecticide chemistry and can serve as a valuable reference volume for the readers.