Pest Management and Crop Production Under the Norm of Resistance Regulation
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: entomology; entomopathogen; insecticide; insect-plant-interaction; pest management; vector-transmissible disease
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that a new Special Issue is being launched in Plants: “Pest Management and Crop Production Under the Norm of Resistance Regulation”. This issue covers research on crop production or on pest management with the concept of resistance regulation. Here, pests refer to all organisms and viruses that negatively affect crop plants in agriculture and forestry. Human beings have struggled against pests in crop production in their history, as if they had traced ways of arms race: once a new pest management was established, pests with resistance would emerge sooner or later. Then, a new measure is required. In other words, human beings have always faced the challenges of the resistance development in the pests. In this regard, the resistance regulation should be the key to attaining successful management of the pests in crop production. To understand our history of agricultural development, address current situations in pest management, and find out the right direction toward future strategy for sustainable crop production, this Special Issue welcomes reviews, original research articles, or short communications that are related to any topics on pest management and crop production from land preparation to food consumption. The editorial office is confident that this issue will certainly contribute to founding more robust pest management and synergistically stimulate the construction of sustainable crop production systems for future food safety and security.
Dr. Katsuya Ichinose
Dr. Hisatoshi Kaku
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- GAP
- IPM
- IRM
- natural enemy
- organic agriculture
- pathogenic microorganisms
- pathogen
- pest control
- pesticide
- resurgence
- sustainable agriculture
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