PESTICIDE OUTLOOK
VOLUME 10 , NO. 3 , 1999

CONTENTS

90 R&D news - reports on new and developing ideas

92 American Crop Protection Association - profile of the pesticide industry association for the USA

93 Company news - news on mergers, collaborations etc.

95 Regulatory news - news of pesticide regulatory affairs

97 Monocrotophos and the Swainson's hawk - an international partnership helping to combat
pesticide threats to migratory birds
Michael Hooper, Pierre Mineau, Maria Zaccagnini, Gerald Winegrad and Brian Woodbridge

103 Organophosphate sheep dips - their environmental impact and fate
David Henderson

107 Control of plant parasitic nematodes - nematode (especially potato cyst nematode) identification
and control
Ken Evans and Patrick Ha/dock

1 12 Gene flow and agriculture: relevance for transgenic crops - report on a conference relating
to the controversy on GM crops
Peter Lutman

1 14 The Rice Genome Project - progress over the last 8 years mapping the rice genome
Takuji Sasaki

1 17 Piperonyl butoxide - an insecticide synergist which is 50 years old
Denys Glynne-Jones

121 Maximum residue limits (MRLs) and developing countries - problems caused to developing
countries exporting foodstuffs by the setting of MRLs
Nigel Smart

126 American Chemical Society honours Don Baker - recipient of the International Award for
Research in Agrochemicals
Derek Gammon

128 Calendar - dates and venues of forthcoming events

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PESTICIDE OUTLOOK
VOLUME 10, NO. 4, 1999


CONTENTS

130 Company news - reports on mergers, co^abomtions etc.


131 Key developments in EU Directives on pesticides - latest mformotion on Directives 91M14
and 98 / 8
Ray Bates


133 R&D news - reports on new end developing ideas


135 Regulatory news - news of pesticide reguhtory. affairs


137 Pest control for valuable artifacts " using controffed atmosphere and contro^ed humidityf
temperature processes
Hamish Kidd

14! High throughput screening - report on a conference dealing with this development in lead
identification
Martin Rice


142 A hundred years of vector control - centenary of the London School of Hygiene ^ Tropical
Medicine
Chris Curtis


145 Resistance to plant parasitic nematodes conferred by GM-crops - the possibilities for
engineered nematode resistance
Peter Urwin and Catherine Lilley


151 Looking forward at Rothamsted - a report on a new building, an open day and further investment
Hamish Kidd


154 Graminicides which inhibit lipid synthesis -AOPP and CHD graminicides in rehtion to their
acetyi-CoA target site
John Harwood


160 Second International Conference on Crop Protection Chemicals - report on a recent
conference in Nantong in China
Alan Knowles


164 Use of pesticides on UK sports turf" to control invertebrate pests, fungat diseases and
broad-leaved weeds
Kate Entwistle

172 Bacterial larvicides for public health use - recommendations from the WHO Pesticide Evaluation
Scheme (WHOPES)

174 Letters - correspondence from our readers


175 Books - some recently published literature

176 Calendar - dates and venues of forthcoming events

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