Contents: Preface. 1. Plant virus disease management: molecular approach/R.K. Raizada, A.A. Zaidi, K.M. Srivastava and B.P. Singh. 2. Detection of seed transmitted plant viruses and their management/Arvind S. Summanwar. 3. Detection of ringsport virus and greening BLO in citrus and their management/Y.S. Ahlawat, A.S. Byadgi, Anupam Varma and N.K. Chakraborty. 4. Potato-virus inclusions--diagnostic value/I.D. Garg and S.M. Paul Khurana. 5. Serological detection of sugarcane bacilliform virus (SCBV) in sugarcane/R. Viswanathan and K.C. Alexander. 6. ELISA and ISEM for the detection of potato viruses/S.M. Paul Khurana and M.N. Singh. 7. Prevention of natural occurrence of tobacco leaf curl disease by primed Clerodendrum aculeatum leaf extract/H.N. Verma and Varsha. 8. Detection and identification tobamoviruses infecting pepper/M. Krishna Reddy and S.J. Singh. 9. Principles of detection of phytopathogenic bacteria/J.P. Verma. 10. Rhizobacteria in the biological control of plant diseases/H.C. Dube. 11. Production of polyclonal antisera to grassy shoot disease (MLOs) of sugarcane and their use in disease detection by ELISA/R. Viswanathan and K.C. Alexander. 12. Evaluation of culture media and molecular probes for detection of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in rice seeds and plants/S.S. Gnanamanickam, N. Sakthivel, R. Nelson, A.M. Alvarez and J.E. Leach. 13. Detection and management of Xanthomonas campestris pv. mangiferaeindicae/Ram Kishun. 14. Detection and management of Pseudomonas solanacearum/G.S. Shekhawat, S.K. Chakrabarti and Ashok V. Gadewar. 15. Molecular approaches in the management of plant diseases/V. Pal and Bushan L. Jalali. 16. Emerging high incidence of bacterial wilt of groundnut and its management/A. Narain, G. Biswal and N.K. Dhal. 17. Detection and management of Xanthomonas campestris pv. malvacearum (Xcm), the inducer of bacterial blight of cotton/R.P. Singh and J.P. Verma. 18. Diagnosis and management of ratoon stunting disease of sugarcane/V.P. Agnihotri and S.K. Duttamajumder. 19. Disease management by exploiting pathogenesis-related proteins with lytic action/P. Vidyasekharan and P. Balasubramanian. 20. Biological control of wilt causing pathogens/Om Gupta and M.N. Khare. 21. Detection and management of seed-borne diseases of wheat/D.V. Singh, K.D. Srivastava and R. Aggarwal. 22. Defence responses of rice plants during chemical control of sheath blight disease/Sushovan Bera and R.P. Purkayastha. 23. Genetic management of major fungal pathogens of sorghum/R.P. Thakur and S. Pande. 24. Fungal endophytes of grasses and their management/K.K. Janardhanan. 25. Problem, progress and management of red rot of sugarcane--a century old disease problem of India/S.K. Duttamajumder and V.P. Agnihotri. 26. Early and rapid detection of sugarcane smut by histological/immunological methods/P. Padmanaban, D. Mohanraj, K.C. Alexander and R. Jothi. 27. Macrophomina dry root-rot of leguminous crops and its management through VAM biopesticides/Sudhir Chandra, H.K. Kehri and Shikha Maheshwari. 28. Ascochyta blight of chickpea--diagnosis, detection and management/Mahendra Pal. 29. Management of late blight of potato through host resistance/B.P. Singh, S. Roy and G.S. Shekhawat. 30. Detection of pathogens and disease management in oilseeds/S.J. Kolte and K. Vishunavat. 31. Detection and strategy of management of Plasmodiophora brassicae--a biological curiosity and a menacing pathogen/Mrinal K. Dasgupta, Indrabrata Bhattacharya and Nakul C. Mandal. 32. Detection and management of myrothecium leaf spot of cotton and mungbean/M.P. Srivastava. 33. Timely detection and meteorological data based management of cumin blight/G.B. Valand, J.G. Patel, R.B. Patel, K.I. Patel, V.R. Gohel and A. Mishra. 34. Management of pink disease and cylindrocladium blight in eucalypts/Dinesh Kumar. 35. Detection of the cause of parawilt of cotton/C.D. Mayee. Author index.

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