Patterson Perkin

Soil-applied pesticides have been successfully used to control soilbome diseases, weeds, and nematodes in most vegetable and fruit crops over the past decades. Toxicity of these materials to animals and humans and their environmental and economic costs (Pimentel et al. 1992 Ruzo 2006) raised serious environmental and human safety concerns, leading to the phase-out of the most effective and largely used chemical, the methyl bromide (Luken and Grof 2006), and the increasing restrictions on the applications of available pesticides (Perkins and Patterson 1997). The limited availability of chemicals resulted in an increased emphasis on... 

Perkins JH, Patterson BR (1997) Pest pesticides and the environment A historical perspective on the prospects for pesticide reduction. In Pimentel D (ed) Techniques for reducing pesticide use. Wiley, New York, USA, pp 13-33... 

Blendy JA, Strasser A, Walters CL, Perkins KA, Patterson F, Berkowitz R, Herman C (2005) Reduced nicotine reward in obesity cross comparison in human and mouse. Psychopharmacology 180 306-315... 

Fleming 1, Patterson 1, Pearce A (1981) J Chem Soc Perkin Trans 1 256... 

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