Downloaded by 176.145.222.7 on May 28, 2018 | https://pubs.acs.org Publication Date: November 23, 2004 | doi: 10.1021/bk-2005-0892.pr001
Preface Pesticide science provides human society with the crop and disease vector protectorant products necessary to sustain the food, fiber, and heath that it requires in an environmentally safe, sustainable, and affordable manner. This critical task has been made even more daunting by the rising costs of product registration and increasing environmental concerns. Nevertheless, recent technologies and approaches have fundamentally altered how we approach pest management and the control of vectors of communicable diseases. In the forefront of all new agrochemical developments are the criteria of human safety, environmental stewardship, and resistance management. With these goals in mind, approximately 200 pesticide scientists convened the 3 Pan-Pacific Conference on Pesticide Science, which was jointly hosted by the Pesticide Science Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Agrochemicals, on June 1-4,2003 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Researchersfrom14 countries (Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Nigeria, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, and the United States) presented 70 invited papers, 68 posters, and 4 panel discussions that dealt with two main topics New Discoveries in Agrochemicals" and "Environmental Fate and Safety Management of Agrochemicals". This ACS Symposium Series Book deals with the first topic "New Discoveries in Agrochemicals". Thirty-four invited and peer-reviewed chapters from internationally recognized pesticide experts are divided into six sections: Biopesticides and Transgenic Crops; Combinatorial Chemistry; Mode of Action; Natural Products; New Chemistry/Green Chemistry; and Control Agents for Vectors of Communicable Diseases. rd
