Biotechnological Approaches for the Integrated Management of Crop Diseases (Professor L.V. Gangawane Festschrift Volume)

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Biotechnological approach for the integrated management of crop diseases/Amerika Singh, O.P. Sharma, O.M. Bambawale and S.K. Singh. 2. Use of indirect competitive ELISA technique for detection of aflatoxin b1 contaminated in Chilli/K. Ajitkumar, M.K. Naik, F. Waliygai and S.V. Reddy. 3. Studies on in vitro and in vivo synthesis of pectolytic and cellulolytic enzymes by the leaf spot and fruit rot pathogen of banana/M.M.V. Baig and D.S. Mukadam. 4. Strategies for the management of groundnut diseases/M.P. Ghewande and Vinod Kumar. 5. Biotechnological approaches for integrated management of plant diseases/C.D. Mayee and P.K. Chakrabarty. 6. Integrated plant disease management: recent approaches/Myank U. Charaya and R.S. Mehrotra. 7. Biocontrol potential of microorganisms--an overview: focus on trichoderma as biofungicide for the management of plant diseases/N. Mathivanan, V.R. Prabavathy and K. Murugesan. 8. Effect of sphacelia sorghi culture filtrate on callus and cell suspension cultures of sorghum/Nicky Johnson and A.H. Rajasab. 9. Molecular basis of plant disease resistance/S.M. Paul Khurana, Swarup K. Chakrabarti and Debasis Pattanayak. 10. Entomogenous fungi and their further prospects and mycoinsecticides/M.S. Patil. 11. Integrated disease management in rice/C.S. Reddy. 12. Management of Charcoal rot of soybean/Sudha Mall. 13. Application of genetic engineering for disease management in vegetable crops/T.S. Thind, J.K. Arora, H.J.S. Dhaliwal, Prem Raj, C. Mohan and M.I.S. Gill. 14. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria to augment crop production/K.V.B.R. Tilak and C. Manoharachary. 15. Role of 2, 4-diacetylphloroglucinol (DAPG) for plant disease control: its importance to rice bacterial blight suppression in India/P. Velusamy, G. Defago, L.S. Thomashow and S.S. Gnanamanickam. 16. Heart rot and root rot diseases of trees: a case study from the campus of Pune university/J.G. Vaidya and G.G. Deshpande. 17. Va mycorrhiza a new biotechnological tool as biocontrol agent: Indian scenario/Sudhir Chandra and Harbans Kaur Kehri. 18. Microbial management of plant diseases: an overview/R.C. Rajak, A.K. Pandey, A.K. Singh and Rohit Sharma. 19. Waste management: an environmental biotechnology way/Onkar J. Chakre. 20. Problems in management of apple scab in Kashmir: a case study/B.L. Puttoo. 21. Impact of biotechnology on crop improvement with special reference to biotic and abiotic stresses/M.N. Khare and M. Shrimali. 22. Biotechnology in the management of Pearl Millet Downy Mildew/R.P. Thakur and C.T. Hash. 23. Indian contributions to aerobiology of fungal plant pathogens: an overview/B.P.R. Vittal. 24. Trees of religious importance from Amarakosha/Brahmanand Deshpande. 25. Viruses infecting chilli/Capsicum in India/Satya Prakash and S.P.S. Tomer. 26. Epidemiology and integrated management of fruit-rot diseases of trichosanthes dioica/A.K. Roy and Anjan Krishna. Index.

"The management of crop diseases has become important throughout the world. Various methods have been advocated to manage viral. bacterial, fungal and nematode diseases of various crops. The emphasis and prime importance is given on the development of resistant varieties and now it has been possible to manage the various diseases in integrated manner. But the failure of resistant gene in a variety sometimes has been observed and hence the scientists are busy to manage the diseases in biotechnological manners. The biotechnology and molecular biology has found to be of great help and developing transgenic varieties in addition to regular hybridizations. The volume on biotechnological approaches for the integrated management of crop diseases will be great help to solve the problems of crop disease management.

The volume consists of 26 review articles on biotechnological approaches by very well known international scientists throughout the India on different crops. Almost all the renowned institutes of ICAR, IARI, ICRISAT and other universities have contributed to make this volume success in the supplying the biotechnological approaches for the management of crop diseases. This volume is published in the honour of Prof. LV. Gangawane who has contributed much in the management of various crop diseases." (jacket)