Diseases of Field Crops and Their Management

Contents: Preface. 1. Diseases of wheat and their management/D.V. Singh, S.K. Jain. K.D. Srivastava and R. Aggarwal. 2. Diseases of Maize and their management/R.C. Sharma. 3. Diseases of rice and their management/B. Padhi and S. Gangopadhyay. 4. Diseases of Pearl Millet and their management/R.P. Thakur. 5. Diseases of Sorghum and their management/S. Pande, P.S. Marley and J.M. Lenne. 6. Diseases of rapeseed and mustard and their management/.G.S. Saharan. 7. Diseases of groundnut and their management/C.D. Mayee. 8. Diseases of linseed and sesame and their management/Reeti Singh, U.C. Singh, R.K. Khare and B.L. Sharma. 9. Diseases of chickpea and their management/Gurdip Singh and Y.R. Sharma. 10. Diseases of Mungbean and Urdbean and their management/R.A. Singh, S.N. Gurha and A. Ghosh. 11. Diseases of French Bean and their Management/A. Ghosh, R.A. Singh and S.N. Gurha. 12. Diseases of pigeonpea and fieldpea and their management/Vishwa Dhar and R.G. Chaudhary. 13. Diseases of Cowpea and their management/Moly Saxena, D.R. Saxena, M.S. Bhale and M.N. Khare. 14. Diseases of soybean and their management/D.S. Singh and K.K. Pandey. 15. Diseases of Lentil and their management/D.R. Saxena, Moly Saxena and M.N. Khare. 16. Diseases of cotton and their management/O.M. Bambawale, S. Raj, M.K. Meshram and N.K. Taneja. 17. Diseases of sugarcane and their management/Satyavir, Anil Kumar and S.K. Khirbat. 18. Diseases of Sugarbeet and their management/S.N. Srivastava. 19. Diseases of Rabi fodder crops and their management/P.P. Gupta, Rakesh Kumar, S.K. Gandhi and R.N. Arora. 20. Diseases of Kharif fodder crops and their management/P.P. Gupta, R.N. Arora and S.K. Gandhi. 21. Microbial spoilage of stored grains and its management/R.C. Sharma and T.S. Thind. 22. Mycotoxins in foodgrains and their management/P.P. Singh, T.S. Thind, and V.K. Mehan. 23. Nematode diseases of field crops and their management/H.S. Gaur and Inderjit Singh. Index.

"To meet the food demands of ever increasing human population, agricultural production is being augmented through the use of new crop varieties and changed agronomic practices. These practices have enormously increased the incidence of several pests and diseases. Plant diseases cause serious threats to the successful cultivation of agricultural crops resulting in huge losses in their yields. In the recent past, certain diseases have appeared in epidemic from endangering sustainability in agriculture. The destructive potential of plant diseases in modern day agriculture has increased due to the use of cultivars having narrow genetic base over large areas. Correct disease diagnosis is the prime requirement for recommending preventive or curative measures for effective disease management. Knowledge of perpetuation and spread of the pathogens and various factors affecting disease development is necessary. All the available strategies must be used in an integrated manner and a holistic approach needs to be developed for the management of major diseases of a crop.

Information on latest developments in the understanding and management of plant diseases has been compiled in this publication. The book deals with diseases of important cereals, pulses, oilseeds, sugar crops, cotton and fodder crops through 23 chapters. Nematode problems of these crops have been exclusively discussed in one chapter while another deals with mycotoxin contamination in stored grains. Coloured photographs showing symptoms of important diseases are given to help in disease diagnosis. It is hoped that the book will cater to the needs of research workers, teachers and students not only in the discipline of plant pathology but also in other areas of agriculture." (jacket)