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This book provides the fundamental knowledge on Pest- Host Interactions in Integrated Pest Management of Stored Product Pest, Cigarette Beetle (Lasioderma serricorne). It provides training material for food / feed material industries and extremely valuable information for tobacco companies, food organizations, researchers, university students and technicians engaged in studies and control of stored product pests and therefore should be in each agricultural library. This book discusses the fundamentals of Stored-product pest management needs to be considered in planning, implementation, and evaluation of a successful pest management program. With recent regulatory changes, customer´s concern about pesticide residues in tobacco and other foods, and companies embracing IPM and alternative approaches for Stored Product Pest Management, this book is timely developed. It provides the base-line information of IPM like pest-host interactions responsible for susceptibility and resistance responses of Cigarette Beetle (Lasioderma serricorne).

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