Diseases of Fruit Trees : Recent Researches and Eco-Friendly Management

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Need to promote fruit cultivation and manage post harvest losses to ensure healthy human life/Arun Arya. 2. Risk analysis of plant and plant products/M.K. Prasanna Kumar, K. Murali Mohan, L.N. Lakshminarayana Reddy and Y.B. Srinivasa. 3. Conventional and non-conventional methods to manage post-harvest diseases of perishables/Neeta Sharma and Abhishek Tripathi. 4. Mango malformation: epidemiology and principles of management/D.K. Chakrabarti, M.K. Pandey, Gireesh Chand, Rajesh Kumar, V.P. Gaur and Kanhaiya Singh. 5. Diseases directly affecting pineapple fruits at field and post-harvest phase/M.K. Dasgupta. 6. Post-harvest diseases of mango and their management/M.K. Prasanna Kumar, V.B. Nargund, V. Venkatravanappa and M.B. Patil. 7. Biological control of crown gall of stone fruits-present status and future strategies/A.K. Gupta, B. Kamal, K. Khosla, D. Gupta and R.C. Sharma. 8. Post-harvest handling and eco-friendly management of diseases of Litchi chinensis (Gaertn.) Sonn./Arun Arya and S. Chaudhary. 9. Eco-friendly management of post-harvest diseases of temperate fruits/A.K. Gupta. 10. Integrated management of grape powdery mildew caused by Uncinula necator (Schw.) Burr./D.S. Aswathanaryana, V.B. Nargund and Somasekhar. 11. Environmentally safe approaches for the management of post-harvest fungal diseases of fruits/Y.P. Singh and Geeta Sumbali. 12. Post harvest management of diseases of important fruits using biocontrol agents/H.B. Singh, Shishir Srivastava and Anand Singh. 13. Aeromycoflora of fruit marbets and associated diseases of certain fruits/Chitra Arya and Arun Arya. 14. Botanical pesticides to control post harvest diseases of Avocado, mango, guava and Chiku/Arun Arya and Chitra Arya. 15. Ecofriendly management of wilt of guava by VAM Technology/H.K. Kehri, Ratna Dwivedi, M. Dubey and R.P. Narayan. 16. Protocols for post harvest disease management of fruits-future line of action/Om Prakash. 17. Diseases of papaya and strategies for their effective management/Renu Misra. 18. Post harvest diseases of pomegranate/N.G. Ravichandra and T.B. Anil Kumar. 19. Post harvest fungal rots of Jamun and Jujube and their ecofriendly management/Shraddha Olpadkar and Arun Arya. 20. Managing soil borne diseases of fruit trees by microbes/Arun Arya. Subject index.

“Horticultural crops play a major role in the economy of farmers and the country. It is reported that around 35% of our produce is lost in the post harvest stages i.e., in transit and storage, major loses are in fruits. Tropical fruits like banana, papaya, mango, citrus, pineapple and jackfruit occupy major area in cultivation. India ranks first by producing 45% of total world’s mango. Fruits form an important component of balanced diet along with proteins and carbohydrates. Various methods are suggested to control important diseases like scab of apple, wilt of guava, and mango malformation. Some chemicals used to control diseases may even be carcinogenic. In USA, the losses for fruit and vegetables amount to 24% of the harvested crop. To prevent such losses, there is a need to develop integrated pest management technologies using those of physical agents as low temperature storage and quick transportation, hot water treatment (54-57C), fruit irradiation, use of biopesticides including botanicals.

The book deals with the diseases of important fruit crops of the country. Chapters deal with epidemiology and management of mango malformation, guava wilt, powdery mildew of grapes. The novel approaches to control such post harvest spoilage is described. Chapter on risk analysis of plant and plant product is added. Biological control of crown gall of stone fruits is described. Crown galls are major constrains in raising quality nursery plant in stone fruits. The fungi present in fruit and vegetable markets are also described and close correlation has been observed with fruit rot of cherry. The book will be useful for students, and all those interested with fruit cultivation. It will trigger further researches on the physiology of the storage and control of fruits during transit and marketing, especially on those areas identified by the contributors. The search for natural and safe chemical compounds and the variety of alternative physical and biological control methods will ensure better fruit supply in different markets.”