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Thomas C. Sparks is affiliated with Dow Chemical in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work covers multiple subfields, including insect science, plant science, molecular biology, ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, and pollution.

The main topics addressed in Thomas C. Sparks's research include insect resistance and genetics, insect and pesticide research, insect pest control strategies, fungal plant pathogen control, weed control and herbicide applications, insect-plant interactions and control, and pesticide and herbicide environmental studies.

Thomas C. Sparks has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology
  • Pest Management Science
  • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Recent published papers demonstrate the focus and scope of the scientist's work:

  • Insecticides, biologics and nematicides: Updates to IRAC's mode of action classification - a tool for resistance management (2020, Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology)
  • Insecticide resistance management and industry: the origins and evolution of the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) and the mode of action classification scheme (2021, Pest Management Science)
  • Structure Simplification of Natural Products as a Lead Generation Approach in Agrochemical Discovery (2021, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry)
  • Impact of natural products on discovery of, and innovation in, crop protection compounds (2021, Pest Management Science)
  • Natural Product-Based Crop Protection CompoundsOrigins and Future Prospects (2023, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry)

Thomas C. Sparks frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Stephen O. Duke
  • Melissa Siebert
  • Robert J Bryant
  • Gerald B. Watson
  • Frank J. Wessels

The scientist's work spans a wide array of topics related to pest management and agrochemical research, contributing to the understanding of insecticide resistance and the development of novel crop protection strategies. Their publications demonstrate involvement in advancing knowledge on resistance management tools, mode of action classification, and the role of natural products in agrochemical innovation.

Best Publications

  • IRAC: Mode of action classification and insecticide resistance management

    Thomas C. Sparks;Ralf Nauen

  • Spinosad – a case study: an example from a natural products discovery programme

    Gary D Thompson;Robert Dutton;Thomas C Sparks

  • Natural products as insecticides: the biology, biochemistry and quantitative structure-activity relationships of spinosyns and spinosoids.

    Thomas C Sparks;Gary D Crouse;Gregory Durst;Gregory Durst

  • Discovery and characterization of sulfoxaflor, a novel insecticide targeting sap-feeding pests.

    Yuanming Zhu;Michael R Loso;Gerald B Watson;Thomas C Sparks

  • Sulfoxaflor and the sulfoximine insecticides: Chemistry, mode of action and basis for efficacy on resistant insects

    Thomas C. Sparks;Gerald B. Watson;Michael R. Loso;Chaoxian Geng

  • A rapid assay for insect juvenile hormone esterase activity.

    Bruce D. Hammock;Thomas C. Sparks

  • Insecticides, biologics and nematicides: Updates to IRAC's mode of action classification - a tool for resistance management.

    Thomas C. Sparks;Andrew J. Crossthwaite;Ralf Nauen;Shinichi Banba

  • Insecticide discovery: an evaluation and analysis.

    Thomas C. Sparks

  • Natural products for pest control: an analysis of their role, value and future

    B Clifford Gerwick;Thomas C Sparks

  • Biological Activity of the Spinosyns, New Fermentation Derived Insect Control Agents, on Tobacco Budworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Larvae

    Thomas C. Sparks;Gary D. Thompson;Herbert A. Kirst;Mark B. Hertlein

  • Biological characterization of sulfoxaflor, a novel insecticide.

    Jonathan M Babcock;Clifford B Gerwick;Jim X Huang;Michael R Loso

  • Resistance and cross-resistance to the spinosyns – A review and analysis

    Thomas C. Sparks;James E. Dripps;Gerald B. Watson;Doris Paroonagian

  • A METHOD TO CONTROL INSECTS RESISTANT TO COMMON INSECTICIDES USING SULFOXIMINES

    Huang Jim X;Rogers Richard B;Orr Nailah;Sparks Thomas C

  • Perspectives on the agrochemical industry and agrochemical discovery.

    Thomas C Sparks;Beth A Lorsbach

  • Evolution of Insect Resistance to Insecticides: A Reevaluation of the Roles of Physiology and Behavior

    Jeffrey A. Lockwood;Thomas C. Sparks;Richard N. Story

  • Novel nicotinic action of the sulfoximine insecticide sulfoxaflor.

    Gerald B. Watson;Michael R. Loso;Jonathan M. Babcock;James M. Hasler

  • Natural products, their derivatives, mimics and synthetic equivalents: role in agrochemical discovery

    Thomas C Sparks;Donald R Hahn;Negar V Garizi

  • A spinosyn-sensitive Drosophila melanogaster nicotinic acetylcholine receptor identified through chemically induced target site resistance, resistance gene identification, and heterologous expression.

    Gerald B. Watson;Scott W. Chouinard;Kevin R. Cook;Chaoxian Geng;Chaoxian Geng

  • Trifluoromethylketones as possible transition state analog inhibitors of juvenile hormone esterase

    Bruce D. Hammock;Keith D. Wing;James McLaughlin;Victor M. Lovell

  • Insecticide resistance management and industry: the origins and evolution of the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) and the mode of action classification scheme.

    Thomas C Sparks;Nicholas Storer;Alan Porter;Russell Slater

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce D. Hammock
Bruce D. Hammock University of California, Davis
Patrick F. Dowd
Patrick F. Dowd Agricultural Research Service
Mark J. Kurth
Mark J. Kurth University of California, Davis
Ralf Nauen
Ralf Nauen Bayer (Germany)
Thomas J. Meade
Thomas J. Meade Northwestern University
Ian Denholm
Ian Denholm University of Hertfordshire
Philip J. Batterham
Philip J. Batterham Australian National University
Christine Martin
Christine Martin University of Clermont Auvergne
James C. Fettinger
James C. Fettinger University of California, Davis
Lane D. Foil
Lane D. Foil Louisiana State University Agricultural Center

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