Management of Threatening Plant Diseases of National Importance

Contents: 1. Foliar blights and fusarium scab of wheat: present status and strategies for management/D.V. Singh and K.D. Srivastava. 2. Powdery mildew of wheat: a potential disease in north western India/P. Bahadur and R. Aggarwal. 3. Banded leaf and sheath blight of maize/Satish C. Saxena. 4. Integrated management practices for ergot of pearl millet/S.S. Chahal and H.S. Randhawa. 5. Biochemical aspects of green ear disease of pearl millet/A.K. Sinha and Umesh Kumar. 6. Soybean rust: a threatening disease in India/A.K. Sarbhoy and Mahendra Pal. 7. Leaf spots and viral diseases of soybean/P.N. Thapliyal and Uma Singh. 8. Alternaria blight and white rust of mustard: potential threat to cultivation/S.J. Kolte and M.P. Singh. 9. Phytophthora blight of potato: an age old problem/R.K. Arora and R.N. Khanna. 10. Common scab of potato and its management/S.N.S. Srivastava and Devendra Sahai. 11. Evaluating potato seed health standard/Narayan Rishi and Poonam Dhawan. 12. Strategies to manage red rot of sugarcane: new approach/R.P. Singh, Sunita Lal and S.C. Misra. 13. Epidemiology and management of sclerotium root rot of sugarbeet: a threatening malady/Ram Ji Lal, S.N. Srivastava and V.P. Agnibotri. 14. Some threatening diseases of mango and their management/Om Prakash, A.K. Misra and Ram Kishun. 15. Guava wilt: present status and future strategies/V.N. Pathak and V.L. Majumdar. 16. Citrus ring spot capillovirus and citrus mosaic badnavirus: two emerging pathogens infecting citrus in India/Y.S. Ahlawat, A.S. Byadgi, R.P. Pant and A. Varma. 17. Detection and management of blister blight of tea/B.N. Chakraborty, U. Chakraborty, A. Saha, R. Das and P. Basu. 18. Phytophthora foot rot of black pepper/Y.R. Sarma and M. Anandaraj. 19. Management of rhizome rot of ginger: progress and perspective/B.C. Lodha and Kusum Mathur. 20. Epidemiology and management of powdery mildews/S. Iqbal Husain, M. Akram and M. Wajid Khan. 21. Diseases caused by macrophomina phaseolina and their management/Sudhir Chandra and Harbans Kaur Kehri. 22. Mycorrhiza in control of plant pathogens/K.G. Mukerji, B.P. Chamola and Mamta Sharma.