Description:Content: Development of photoactivated compounds as pesticides / James R. Heitz -- Type I and Type II mechanisms of photodynamic action / Christopher S. Foote -- Photomodification and singlet oxygen generation in membranes / Dennis Paul Valenzeno -- Identifying singlet oxygen in chemical, photochemical, and enzymic reactions / Ahsan U. Khan -- Singlet oxygen quantum yields / Michael A.J. Rodgers -- Biochemistry of photodynamic action / John D. Spikes and Richard C. Straight -- Photodynamic modification of excitable cell function / John P. Pooler -- Physiological effects of photodynamic action : special reference to insects / Joseph E. Weaver -- Multiple mechanisms of dye-induced toxicity in insects / G.D. Pimprikar and Mary Jane Coign -- Field development of photooxidative dyes as insecticides / Lisa A. Lemke, P.G. Koehler, R.S. Patterson, Mary B. Feger, and Thomas Eickhoff -- Photodecomposition of naturally occurring biocides / Y. Yoke Marchant -- [Alpha]-terthienyl as a photoactive insecticide : toxic effects on nontarget organisms / Jacques Kagan, William J. Bennett, Edgard D. Kagan, Jacqueline L. Maas, Susan A. Sweeney, Isabelle A. Kagan, Emmanuelle Seigneurie, and Vitautas Bindokas -- Using bacterial mutants and transforming DNA to define phototoxic mechanisms / R.W. Tuveson -- Charge of the light brigade : phototoxicity as a defense against insects / M.R. Berenbaum -- Biological actions and metabolic transformations of furanocoumarins / G. Wayne Ivie -- Fungicidal activity of naturally occurring photosensitizers / G.H. Neil Towers and Donald E. Champagne -- Structure and function relationships in polyacetylene photoactivity / Y. Yoke Marchant and Geoffrey K. Cooper -- Thiophenes and acetylenes: phototoxic agents to herbivorous and blood-feeding insects / J.T. Arnason, B.J.R. Philogène, P. Morand, J.C. Scaiano, N. Werstiuk, and J. Lam -- Photodynamic action of hypericin / J. Paul Knox, Richard I. Samuels, and Alan D. Dodge -- The fungal photosensitizer cercosporin and its role in plant disease / Margaret E. Daub -- Light-activated antimicrobial chemicals from plants : their potential role in resistance to disease-causing organisms / Kelsey R. Downum and Stan Nemec -- Photodynamic herbicides and chlorophyll biosynthesis modulators / C.A. Rebeiz, A. Montazer-Zouhoor, J.M. Mayasich, B.C. Tripathy, S.M. Wu, and C.C. Rebeiz.