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I have no experience but interested to learn and apply mathematical models for insecticide resistance. It would be great if some colleague guide me from where to start. I have experience for insecticide resistance monitoring, isolines comparison, fitness cost analysis and genetics of resistance in some Lepidoptera insect pests like Spodoptera litura, Helicoverpa armigera.
Many thanks in advance
Munir
I suggest that you find a wild population that was never sprayed with insecticides. This will be your reference population. You will be able to compare the relative resistance of other populations suspected to be resistant to the reference (=wild) population throughout time (= different months or years) and space (=different localities). See attached file.
Are you asking about insecticide resistance? It so,
Finney, D.J. 1990. Probit Analysis, a Statistical Treatment of the Sigmoid Response Curve. Cambridge UP, Cambridge UK. 253pp
Might be of interest.
If you are asking about insect-resistant-plants that is another story. Either way, I think of models arising out of sizable amounts of similarly presented data. I am uncertain where to start. Good luck.
Many thanks, I am actually interested to know how modeling can be used when dealing with insect resistance, temporal and spatial variations, crop wise use of insecticides for certain insect pests.
Host plant resistance and transgenic resistance is bit different from such studies.
Hope my question for guidance is clear to guide
Read this attached article....it will guide you how to proceed but mathmatical skills are necessary to do mathmatical modeling.
Article Advances in crop insect modelling methods—Towards a whole sy...
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