Farming Systems and Integrated Pest Management : Proceedings Symposium Section of Agricultural Sciences 77th Session of the Indian Science Congress, Cochin, 1990/edited by Jeevan P. Verma and Anupam Varma. 1992, 332 p., tables, figs., $25.
Contents: 1. Need-based use of agrochemicals/S. Jayaraj. 2. Therapeutic treatment for control of virus and mycoplasma diseases of plants/S.P. Raychaudhuri. 3. Integrated pest management in third world-prospects and problems/S. Mukhopadhyay. 4. Potentials of genetic engineering in the integrated management of plant diseases caused by fungi/C. Sen, S. Das and B.D. Gupta. 5. Biotechnology in integrated pest management/Sunil Datta. 6. Strategies to minimise insecticide use in vegetable crops through integrated pest management methods/K. Srinivasan and P.N. Krishna Moorthy. 7. Integrated pest management in sugarcane/H. David, S. Easwaramoorthy, R. Jayanthi and N. Mukunthan. 8. Management of cotton insects through neem products/K. Natarajan and V.T. Sundaramurthy. 9. Integrated management of nematodes and diseases/S.K. Saxena. 10. Soybean rust in India and its management/A.K. Sarbhoy and Vishwa Dhar.
11. Managing soil-borne pathogens of legumes under drier areas through integrated practices/Sudhir Chandra. 12. Integrated management of pearl millet diseases/P.K. Thakur. 13. Management of sugarcane diseases-problems and progress/S.K. Duttamajumder and V.P. Agnihotri. 14. Wheat diseases control through IPM strategies/D.V. Singh and K.D. Srivastava. 15. Potato viruses - detection and control/S.M. Paul Khurana, M.N. Singh and I.D. Garg. 16. Integrated virus disease management/V.R. Mali. 17. Seed-borne viruses-its impact or food production/Arvind S. Summanwar. 18. Integrated management of seed-borne virus diseases by legislation, seed certification and vector control/K.S. Sastry, D. Prabhakar and A.A. Zaidi. 19. Zonal concept in agricultural research/R.K. Singh. 20. Agro-climatic zones and potato based cropping systems in India/J.S. Grewal and S.S. Lal. 21. Eco-floristic zones for conservation and agro-silvi-pastoral management in India/R.K. Gupta. 22. Coconut based farming systems for humid tropics/M.K. Nair and P. Gopalasundram.
[Jeevan P. Verma is Professor, Division of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.]