Cool Season Food Legumes Research Articles

Research achievements in plant resistance to insect pests of cool season food legumes

Plant resistance to at least 17 field and storage insect pests of cool season food legumes has been identified. For the most part, this resistance was located in the primary gene pools of grain legumes via conventional laboratory, greenhouse, and field screening methods. The use of analytical techniques (i.e., capillary gas chromatography) to characterize plant chemicals that mediate the host selection behavior of pest insects offers promise as a new, more rapid way to differentiate between insect-resistant and susceptible plant material. Examples of research achievements in mechanisms of resistance and host-plant resistance within the context of integrated control programs are discussed. Accelerating the development and subsequent releases of insect-resistant cultivars to pulse farmers requires more involvement from interdisciplinary teams of plant breeders, entomologists, plant pathologists, plant chemists, molecular biologists, and other scientists.

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Summerfield, R. J. (editor), World Crops: Cool Season Food Legumes.

Reviews

Principles and Practice of Plant Hormone Analysis. By L. Rivier and A. Crozier. Recognition in Microbe‐plant Symbiotic and Pathogenic Interactions. NATO ASI Series H: Cell Biology, Vol. 4. Ed. by Ben Lugtenberg. Plant Reproductive Ecology. Edited by J. Lovett Doust and L. Lovett Doust. Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe. By Heinz Ellenberg. Translated by G. K. Strutt. Genetic Resources of Phaseolus Beans. Their Maintenance Domestication, Evolution, and Utilisation. Ed. by P. Gepts. World Crops: Cool Season Food Legumes. Ed. by R. J. Summerfield. Revision of the Tribe Antirrhineae. Ny D. A. Sutton. Advances in Legume Systematics, part 3. Ed. by C. H. Stirton.