Advances in Soil Borne Plant Diseases
Contents: Foreword. Message. Preface. 1. An over view of soil borne plant pathogens/M.K. Naik, G.S. Devika Rani, R.D. Prasad, M.B. Patil and Bineeta Sen. 2. Rhizoctonia Solani Kuhn: Soil-inhabiting nonspecialized pathogen in agroecosystem/Arvinder Kaur and H.S. Chaube. 3. Molecular detection and characterization of soil-borne fungal plant pathogens/T.R. Sharma and T.K. Jana. 4. Advances in plant diseases caused by Sclerotium rolfsii and their management/R.D. Prasad and M.K. Naik. 5. Plant growth promoting Rhizobacteria mediated strategy for disease management/Jayashree Gopalakrishnan. 6. Genomics of Pseudomonas fluorescens and biological control of soil borne plant diseases/Dhananjay Naik, M.S. Rao, Abdul Rahiman Bantwal and M.K. Naik. 7. Soil borne diseases of wheat and their management/Rashmi Aggarwal, P. Srinivas, K.D. Srivastava and D.V. Singh. 8. Soil borne diseases of temperate fruits and their management/J.N. Sharma and R.C. Sharma. 9. Wilt diseases of cotton/A. Kannan and C.D. Mayee. 10. Mycorrhizae as biological deterrent of plant pathogens/M.N. Sreenivasa. 11. Management of Endoparasitic Phytonematodes particularly Meloidogyne spp. and Heterodera spp. through Non-chemical methods/S.K. Patel, N.B. Patel and D.J. Patel. 12. Use of On-farm wastes in management of soil-borne diseases in hot arid region/Satish Lodha, Sunil Israel and Ritu Mawar. 13. Biological control of soil borne plant pathogens using Trichoderma species/R.D. Prasad and M.K. Naik. 14. Lesion Nematode, Pratylenchus Species of pulses, their biology, responsible factors and management/S.P. Tiwari and M.N. Khare. 15. Soil solarization by Polyethylene Mulching for the management of soil-borne diseases/Harender Raj. 16. Integrated management of Phytophthora Diseases/M. Gunashekaran. 17. Integrated management of soil borne diseases/V.K. Gupta and R.C. Sharma.
"This book is an attempt to provide critical and up-to-date review and synthesis of various facets of soil borne plant diseases taking stock of present state of art in soil borne plant pathogens. The contributors from various national laboratories, centres of excellence in research institutes and university with mastery over the subjects illustrated and review the progress, application of knowledge on soil borne plant diseases besides updating the readers with recent paradigm shift in soil borne plant diseases taking in to account the art and science of ecology and epidemiology, disease resistance, Physico-chemical and biological aspects of solarization, bio-control processes, molecular detection, genomics of bio-control, PGPR activity and the art of managing soil borne diseases in a sustainable way. The book also comprises special chapters on typical major soil borne fungal genera such as Rhizoctonia, Fusarium, Verticillium, Phytophthora and Sclerotium besides endoparasitic nematodes, Heterodera, Meloidogyne their biology, perpetuation and population dynamics and the topics on soil borne diseases of important crops like wheat, cotton, temperate fruits add to the importance and utility of the volume. The recent development in bio-control, mass production, registration, quality control, the principles of solar heating, use of mycorrhiza, utilization of on-farm wastes combined with sublethal heating and its utility in hot arid region are some of the special features of the volume. The philosophy of IDM with due consideration to ecology and economic parameters have been covered. The book caters the need of knowledge hungry students, teachers, researchers, policy makers, extension workers of general plant pathology, microbiology, microbial ecology, biological control, molecular biology, general biology and all well wishers of farmers."
