Biological Diversity : Current Trends

Contents: 1. Diversity of mushrooms in Gulbarga area/A.H. Rajasab, K. Parveen, Mohammed Shabbir, S., and Nicky Johnson. 2. Biocontrol of substrate fungi for better growth behaviour and yield of Oyster mushroom/R.C. Ram. 3. Addition of some new forest fungi to the microbial biodiversity/T. Prameela Devi and P.N. Choudhry. 4. Diversity of foliar fungi in North-eastern Uttar Pradesh: seven new taxa of hyphomycetes/Kamal and Sanjeeva K. Majumdar. 5. Distribution mapping of Indoor fungi from various locations in Northern California/T. Dubey and A. Kambal. 6. Studies on diversity of Indian fresh watermoulds I occurrence, diversity and distribution of riverine watermoulds/R.V. Gandhe and Kanchanganga Gandhe. 7. Biodiversity of fungi in agricultural waste during composting/A.A. Fulzele and R.P. Thakre. 8. Temperate species of lichens from chail/M.P. Sharma and Navneet Kaur. 9. Diversity of diseases in agroforestry tree species in Central India/V.S. Dadwal and Jamaluddin. 10. Studies on some viable aspects of cultivation of white button mushroom (agaricus bisporus) (Lange) singer/R.A. Verma, C.S. Singh and R.S. Kanaujia. 11. Prevalence and occurrence of wilt rot fungal pathogens of chilli in Chittagong district/A.B. Basak and Nafisa A. Rouf. 12. Cultural, morphological, physiological and toxigenic diversity of aflatoxin fungus aspergillus spp. on chilli/K. Ajithkumar, M.K. Naik, F. Waliyar and S.V. Reddy. 13. Resistance of chrysosporium species to solid waste organopollutants/Anumeha Jain and Geetha Singh. 14. Macrophomina stalk rot in sorghum-challenges and opportunities/I.K. Das. 15. Colonization of Indoor bulk substrates by different species of aspergillus/T. Dubey and A. Kambal. 16. Ecology, physiology, biochemistry and taxonomy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi/Kamal Prasad and Shiwani Kaushik. 17. Diseases of sesame and their integrated management/K.M.S. Raghuwanshi and H.K. Jharia. 18. Effect of distillery effluents on soil microorganisms/M.K. Gaur, Shikha, R. Gaur and N.S. Darmwal. 19. Microbial production of Gibberellin: an overview. Shahid Ahmad and D.K. Agarwal. 20. Ergot a disease of plant but useful as medicine for human beings/Rajesh Kumar. 21. Aureobasidium pullulans: a potential fungus for industrial exploitation with special reference to Pullulan production/R. Gaur, S. Mehrotra, M.K. Gaur, A. Kumar and A.K. Srivastava. 22. Nematode management in white button mushroom: prophylactic and control measures/Anju S. Khanna and Sunil Umar. 23. An integrated approach towards controlling national culprit: parthenium hysterophorus L/K.P. Singh and Rekha Goyal. 24. Eichhornia menace and its management: an overview/D.K. Agarwal, Kirti Bhalla and Shahid Ahamad. 25. Antibiotics in relation to soft rot diseases/A. Mehta and P. Mehta. 26. Crop viruses: a perspective/R.L. Keshwal. 27. Prevalence and incidence of vegetable viral disease in the vegetable growing areas of Faizabad/Karunesh Kumar Tiwari and Rajesh Kumar Tripathi. 28. Biofertilizers in banana orchard: a review/N.V. Phirke, R.M. Kothari and S.B. Chincholkar. 29. Nodulation attributes, diastrophic rhizobial counts of soybean and its relationship at various environments in Madhya Pradesh/R.S. Shukla and N.C. Mitra. 30. Cyanobacterial biotechnology: an overview/Surendra Singh. 31. Conservation of Kutki plant (picrorhiza kurrooa royle ex benth)-an endangered species of Indian alpines/G.S. Rawla. 32. In vitro induction and growth characteristics of callus of aloe barbadensis/N.J. Chikhale and U.M. Narkhede. 33. Engineering abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants. Nand Lal and Neerja Srivastava. 34. Selection of efficient vam inoculant for chrysanthemum/Nidhi Srivastava, Sudhir Chandra and H.K. Kehri. 35. Origin and classification of sesame/K.M.S. Raghuwanshi and S.S. Duhoon. 36. Gamma-ray induced variability in quantitative characters of mungbean (vigna radiata (L) Wilczek) after seed irradiation/Nand Lal and Richa Mishra. 37. Leghaemoglobin of chickpea root nodules as influenced by viral infection/Rajesh K. Tripathi. 38. Apomicts and hyrids in ferns/S.P. Khular. 39. Role of simple phenolics and boron in pollen-Pistil interaction in some seedless and seedbearing bignoniaceae/S.V.S. Chauhan, Anita Rana and Seema Chauhan.

"Biodiversity is rightly considered as an index of sound health of habitat and strong base for better evolution. It entails all forms of biological entities inhabiting the earth--including prokaryotes and euckaryotes. Man has always been fascinated by the biological diversity and has exploited it enormously for his own needs. In this venture, he has not only destroyed the natural biodiversity but has also enhanced the chances of health and environmental problems.

To create awareness an attempt has been made to discuss various aspects of biodiversity at one platform. The present festschrift volume contains 40 reviews/research papers that will provide a new sight in basic and applied researches related to plant and microbial diversity. It mainly includes fungal diversity, biological pest management, bio-inoculation, stress resistance, aerobiology, plant disease, and microbial application in industries etc. The papers are invited ones and the authors bear the responsibility for their interpretation, literature citation and scientific names. We are thankful to the contributors for their cooperation." (jacket)