Diseases of Horticultural Crops : Vegetables,
Ornamentals and Mushrooms/edited by L.R. Verma and R.C. Sharma.
1999, 731 p., figs., $66.
ISBN 81-7387-102-7.
Diseases of Horticultural Crops : Vegetables,
Ornamentals and Mushrooms/edited by L.R. Verma and R.C. Sharma.
1999, 731 p., figs., $66.
ISBN 81-7387-102-7.
Contents: Preface. I. Vegetables: 1. Fungal diseases of potato/B.P. Singh and Vinayak Hegde. 2. Bacterial diseases of potato in India/G.S. Shekhawat, A.V. Gadewar and S.K. Chakrabarti. 3. Virus and Virus-like diseases of potato and their control/S.M. Paul Khurana. 4. Fungal and bacterial diseases of tomato/K.R. Shyam and S.K. Gupta. 5. Viruses infecting tomato and their management/S.C. Chowfla, P.K. Sharma and P.D. Thakur. 6. Fungal and bacterial diseases of crucifers/K.S. Kapoor. 7. Fungal and bacterial diseases of cucurbits/Bineeta Sen, Shahana Majumder and Sanjeev Kumar. 8. Viral diseases of cucurbitaceous crops and their management/S.S. Cheema, S.S. Kang and R.D. Bansal. 9. Pea diseases and their management/A.S. Kapoor and A. Singh. 10. Fungal and bacterial diseases of beans/S.K. Gupta and K.A. Mathew. 11. Virus diseases of French bean/S.C. Chowfla, Dharmesh Gupta and Anil Handa. 12. Fungal diseases of onion and Garlic in India/R.C. Sharma and Sanjeev Sharma. 13. Bacterial and fungal diseases of chillies and bell pepper/Satish K. Sharma. 14. Virus diseases of chillies and Okra/O.P. Sharma and P.N. Sharma. 15. Diseases of spice crops/N.P. Dohroo, N.K. Bharat and S. Nayar. 16. Important diseases of exotic vegetables/Poonam Sinha, P.N. Shrivastava and R.K. Jain. II. Ornamentals: 17. Fungal and bacterial diseases of Bulbous ornamentals/Sunita S. Chandel. 18. Diseases of annual ornamentals/Y.S. Paul and S. Dhancholia. 19. Fungal and bacterial diseases of shrub ornamentals/Sunita S. Chandel and L.R. Verma. 20. Fungal and bacterial diseases of ornamental climbers and trees/A.K. Gupta and Ved Ram. 21. Viroid diseases of ornamental plants/P. Ramachandran and Shally Mathur. III. Mushrooms: 22. Fungal and bacterial diseases of mushrooms and their management/C.L. Jandaik and V.P. Sharma. 23. Viral diseases of mushrooms/S.R. Sharma and Satish Kumar. 24. Nematode diseases of mushrooms and their management/N.K. Sharma and A.S. Khanna. 25. Weed Fungi of mushrooms/V.P. Sharma and C.L. Jandaik. Index.
"Information on diseases of vegetables, ornamentals and mushrooms is scattered in many research papers, reviews, bulletins and books. Thus, the present book Diseases of Horticultural Crops: Vegetables, Ornamentals and Mushrooms fills the needs to have in one volume information on etiology, symptomatology, epidemiology and management of diseases affecting these crops.
"The information contained in this volume will be an asset ot researchers, teachers and students working on diseases of vegetables, ornamentals and mushrooms. The information is also useful for extension workers, quarantine officials, commercial vegetable, flower and mushroom growers. The book will also be an asset for seed and mushroom industry." (jacket)