Integrated Crop Management

1. Contemporary trends in plant protection: the framework of Integrated Crop Pest Management

2. Biological control: the method of periodic releases of natural enemies. Technology and prospects for cover crops

3. Ecological engineering and applications in plant protection

4. Signaling chemicals and allelochemicals: their role in insect chemical communication, practical applications in plant protection

5. The understanding of insect ethology – behavior as a tool of modern plant protection (trap plants, indicator plants)

6. The understanding of insect ethology – behavior as a tool of modern plant protection (The method of coupling inhibition)

7. Entomopathogenic microorganisms

8. Entopathogenic nematodes

9. Potential risks from the introduction and utilization of foreign species of biological control agents

10. Phenological degree-day models and their use in plant protection

11. Quality control of biological control agents (theory and methods)

12. Plant-derived insecticides: possibilities and prospects for their use in plant protection

13. The use of insecticides in the context of integrated management