Biotechnology and Integrated Pest Management

Gabrielle Persley has worked both as a researcher and as a senior strategic science leader, with some of the world's leading agricultural and development agencies, including several years as the Word Bank's Biotechnology advisor. Currently she is the Research Director of the Crawford Fund Australia, based at the Global Change Institute, University of Queensland. Professor Persley is also the Founder and Chair of the Doyle Foundation, Scotland, which advocates the role of science and technology in development, especially in Africa. She is a senior advisor to the International Livestock Research Institute and the Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) in Kenya. Professor Persley has a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Queensland, based on her research on bacterial diseases of cassava in Africa. The University of Queensland awarded Professor Persley the Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in 2014 for her work in international science and technology in relation to food security.

• Section One: Linking Biotechnology and Integrated Pest Management 1: Needs and opportunities, Max J Whittan, Richard A Jefferson and David Dall 2: Integrated pest management and biotechnology: An analysis of their potential for integration, Jeff Waage 3: Integrated pest management in developing countries, Lim Guan Soon Section Two: Case Studies of IPM Integration and of Using Biocontrol Agents in IPM Systems 4: Integrated pest management: Rice case-study, Peter E Kenmore 5: Soybean in Brazi,l Flavio Moscardi and D R Sosa-Gómez 6: India: An overview, Nandini V Katre 7: Cassava in Africa, Hans R Herren Section Three: Using Biotechnology for New Biocontrol Agents 8: Biological products for IPM, Pamela Marrone 9: Novel biocontrol agents, Marjorie A Hoy Section Four: Biotechnology and Plant Breeding 10: Marker-assisted plant breeding, Rebecca J Nelson 11: Modern plant breeding: an Overview, Ivan W Buddenhagen Section Five: Case Studies: Transgenic Plants in IPM Systems 12: Insect-resistant crop plants, David A Fischhoff 13: Cotton in Australia, W James Peacock, D J Llewellyn and G P Fitt 14: Virus-resistant transgenic plants, Roger Beachy Section Six: Alternative Strategies with Transgenes for Insect Resistance 15: Can we slow adaptation by pests to insect resistant transgenic crops?, Richard T Roush 16: Deploying pesticidal crops in developing countries, Fred Gould Section Seven: Other Components in IPM Systems 17: New diagnostics, Mark E Whalon 18: Virus/vector control, Michael E Irwin and Lowell R Nault Section Eight: New Opportunities 19: Vector control, Elizabeth Evans 20: Insect vectors of human diseases, Christopher F Curtis 21: Molecular genetics Veronica Rodriguêz and K Vijiy Raghavan Section Nine: Investment Implications and Future Directions 22: A view from industry, Ben J Mifflin 23: Future directions for international development agencies, Gabrielle J Persley, Gary Toennisen and Peter Dart