New Book on Insecticide Toxicology and Resistance Monitoring Published

Insecticide misuse in tropical rice is beginning to accelerate the development of insecticide resistance.  High levels of resistance have been detected in the Mekong Delta (Read: resistance to BPMC, resistance to fipronil, resistance to imidacloprid).  There are numerous attempts to measure insect responses to insecticides using a range of bioassay methods. However, unless the methodology used in these detections are quite similar it is difficult to compare their differences.  We initiated an insecticide resistance network, developed standardized methods to be used in respective countries to collect a range of LD⁵⁰ determinations in several countries and trained research partners (Read: Toxicology Report).
The standardized methods, including hands-on procedures in insect collection, rearing, preparation, bioassays and data analyses using the toxicological statistics software POLO plus are now published. The book is entitled “Research Methods in Toxicology and Insecticide Resistance Monitoring of Rice Planthoppers” by K.L. Heong, K.H. Tan, C.P.F. Garcia. L.T. Fabellar and Z. Lu (2011) and free download is available from

http://books.irri.org/9789712202605_content.pdf.