本书为农药学科的专业英语教材，以化学农药、生物农药、农药剂型、纳米农药、农药应用、化感作用、基因工程农药、农药生物测定、农药抗药性、农药残留、农药降解、农药毒理、农药风险评估、农药管理、农药设计十五个主题进行详细展开，课后有习题及阅读材料。书后附录包括常见农药专业英语词根、前后缀，农药剂型名称及代码，常见农药中英文名称及习题答案等。
本书可供农药学专业的本科生和研究生使用，也可作为相关专业人员的教学和参考用书。

PART Ⅰ CHEMICAL PESTICIDES
Unit 1 Chemistry of Pesticides
Reading Material: Pesticides，Common Names，Chemical Names and Trade Names
Unit 2 Chemical Insecticides
Reading Material: Chemical Herbicides
PART Ⅱ BIOLOGICAL PESTICIDES
Unit 3 Botanical Pesticides
Reading Material: Essential Oils
Unit 4 Microbial Pesticides
Reading Material: Bacillus thuringiensis
PART Ⅲ FORMULATIONS
Unit 5 Liquid Formulations
Reading Material: Advantages and Disadvantages of Liquid Formulations
Unit 6 Solid Formulations
Reading Material: Adjuvants
PART Ⅳ NANOPESTICIDE
Unit 7 Nanopesticide
Reading Material: Nanoparticles
Unit 8 Nanoformulation
Reading Material: Advantages of Nanoemulsions and Nanodispersions
PART Ⅴ APPLICATION OF PESTICIDES
Unit 9 Application Technologies
Reading Material: Minimizing Particle Drift
Unit 10 Pesticide Equipments
Reading Material: Sprayer Components
PART Ⅵ ALLELOPATHY
Unit 11 Allelopathy
Reading Material: Allelochemicals
Unit 12 Application of Allelopathy
Reading Material: Allelopathy and Weed-Crop Ecology
PART Ⅶ GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PESTICIDE
Unit 13 Genetically Engineered Crops
Reading Material: Transgenic Technology
Unit 14 RNAi
Reading Material: Methodology of dsRNA Uptake
PART Ⅷ BIOASSAYS
Unit 15 Experimental Design
Reading Material: Factors Affecting the Bioassay
Unit 16 Bioassays of B.thuringiensis
Reading Material: Types of Bioassays
PART Ⅸ RESISTANCE
Unit 17 Resistance
Reading Material: Classification of Resistance
Unit 18 Mechanisms of Resistance
Reading Material: Resistance Management
PART Ⅹ PESTICIDE RESIDUES
Unit 19 Pesticide Residues in Food and Trade
Reading Material: Sample Collection，Preparation，and Analysis
Unit 20 Analysis of Pesticide Residues
Reading Material: Analytical Methods
PART Ⅺ PESTICIDE DEGRADATION
Unit 21 Environmental Fate
Reading Material: Effects of Soil Parameters on Pesticides Fate
Unit 22 Microbial and Enzymatic Degradation
Reading Material: Microorganisms Involved in Degradating Pesticides
PART Ⅻ TOXICOLOGY
Unit 23 Toxicology
Reading Material: Classification of Toxicants
Unit 24 Toxicity of Pyrethroids
Reading Material: Developments in Toxicology
PART ⅩⅢ RISK ASSESSMENTS
Unit 25 Toxicity Assessment
Reading Material: Framework for Ecological Risk Assessment
Unit 26 Exposure Assessment
Reading Material: Risk Assessment:First and Second Tier
PART ⅩⅣ PESTICIDE MANAGEMENT
Unit 27 Pesticide Management in China
Reading Material: International Conventions
Unit 28 Pesticide Regulation in USA
Reading Material: The Federal Insecticide，Fungicide，and Rodenticide Act
PART ⅩⅤ PESTICIDES DESIGN
Unit 29 Analogue Design of Pesticide
Reading Material: Combinatorial Chemistry
Unit 30 Computer-Aided Design
Reading Material: Virtual Screening
APPENDIXES
Appendix 1 专业词根、前缀、后缀
Appendix 2 农药剂型名称及代码（GB/T 19378-2017）
Appendix 3 常见农药中英文名称
Key to Exercises