Biocontrol of Plant Diseases/edited by P.C. Trivedi. Jaipur,
Aavishkar Pub., 2007, xviii, 438 p, tables, figs., ISBN
81-7910-205-3.
Biocontrol of Plant Diseases/edited by P.C. Trivedi. Jaipur,
Aavishkar Pub., 2007, xviii, 438 p, tables, figs., ISBN
81-7910-205-3.
Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. Biocontrol--an Ecofriendly disease management approach/Sanjeev Sharma and A.K. Sharma. 2. Commercial use of fungi as biocontrol agents/Neeta Sharma, Pallavi Awasthi, Abhishek Tripathi, Swati Sharma, Shefali Agnihotri and Basant Prabha. 3. Biological control of Foliar Pathogens of crop plants/D.P. Singh. 4. Ecofriendly management of diseases in Mulberry/V.P. Gupta. 5. Ecofriendly methods for the control of certain diseases of Tea (Camellia sinensis)/U.I. Baby and N. Muraleedharan. 6. Bio-bullets to control Postharvest diseases of Perishables--a reality/Neeta Sharma and Pallavi Awasthi. 7. Use of biocontrol agents in integrated management of Leaf Rot in Root (Wilt) affected coconut/N. Srinivasan. 8. Biological control of Pythium diseases in crops/R. Selvakumar. 9. Biological control of Wilt and Root Rot of Acacia nilotica L./Sapana Sharma, Vipin Parkash, Sunita Kaushish, Ashok Aggarwal and Priya Rani. 10. Biological control of sugarcane insect pests/R.K. Tanwar and Saroj Singh. 11. Bio-control potentials of species of Aspergillus in managing plant pathogens/Vijeta Singh and Satish Lodha. 12. Trichoderma--a potential biocontrol agent of plant diseases/A.K. Pathak, Suresh Muralia and Shivali Pathak. 13. Management of fungal disease by application of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi/Arun Arya and Tanushree Chatterjee. 14. Ecofriendly management of Wilt of Guava by VAM Technology/Sudhir Chandra, Ratna Dwivedi, Raghvendra P. Narayan, Varun Khare and Harbans Kaur Kehri. 15. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Phytonematode Management/Rakesh Pandey. 16. Antimicrobial agents from plants/Kanika Sharma, Rekha Sharma, Arti Agrawal, Naveen Sharma, Yogesh Kumar Vyas and Gunmala Dak. 17. Evaluation of extract of Piper nigrum Bud as fungicidal agent against Trichophyton mentagrophytes/Ravish Zamir. 18. Antifungal antibiotics from potential biocontrol microorganisms/P. Dureja, R.S. Tanwar and Praveen Kumar Sharma. 19. Mechanisms of antagonism: Hyperparasitism and antibiosis/Rashmi Aggarwal, Robin Gogoi and D.V. Singh. 20. Biodiversity of Rust and Smut Fungi/D.K. Agarwal, R.K. Sharma and D. Bahukhandi. 21. Fungi as bioherbicides, bioinsecticides and biofungicide/Ch. Ramesh. 22. Biological control of Water Hyacinth with Fungi: current status/A. Naseema and R. Praveena. 23. Fungi in the management of Plant Parasitic Nematodes/Anuradha Singh and P.C. Trivedi. Index.
"Indiscriminate use of pesticides for the control of plant diseases and pests is no longer permissible due to risk of environmental and health hazards to human beings, animal and other beneficial organisms. Biological control has attracted attention as an important components of Integrated Pest Management System in recent times inspite of its independent use.
The book contains 23 chapters covering holistic information on biocontrol management of fungal, bacterial, nematode and insect pests of economically important plants. Detailed information is given on Fungi in the management of plant parasitic nematodes. The book will be useful to all students and researchers in plant pathology, microbial ecology, mycology, botany and agriculture." (jacket)