Comprehensively covers the latest advances in pesticide delivery technologies, highlighting new means of reducing toxicity, increasing efficacy, lessening environmental impact, and facilitating new product development. Illustrates ways of reducing evaporation, leaching, ultraviolet light degradation, and soil degradation; describes major delivery systems and their constituent raw materials; discusses controlled release in terms of pesticide selectivity; explains process steps, release mechanisms, methods of release rate control, and formulation types; investigates performance characteristics of microbial pesticides; and more. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)