Damage to Cotton; feeding mechanism and oral secretions; resistance in host plants; mass rearing of the ternished plant bug; mass production of cotton seedlings; Development of seedling screening; Mass screening of cotton seedlings; Development of screening methods for detecting and measuming resustance in the cotton square.

This book synthesizes new information about the environmental advantages of plant resistance, transgenic resistance, the molecular bases of resistance, and the use of molecular markers to map resistance genes. Readers are presented in-depth descriptions of techniques to quantify resistance, factors affecting resistance expression, and the deployment of resistance genes. New information about gene-for-gene interactions between resistant plants and arthropod biotypes is discussed along with the recent examples of using arthropod resistant plants in integrated pest management systems.