Plant Diseases Management for Sustainable Agriculture
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Concepts and practices in integrated plant disease management/Atul Kumar, H.C. Lal, Jameel Akhtar, and H.S. Chaube. 2. Emerging and threatening diseases of plants: detection, diagnosis and their management/B.N. Reddy and C.R. Raghavender. 3. Prospects of biocontrol agents in plant disease management/H.C. Lal, J.P. Upadhyay, Atul Kumar and Jameel Akhtar. 4. Corm rot disease of Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) and its management/M. Azam Wani, T.K. Kotha and Mushtaq Ahmad. 5. Fungal diseases of Zeera [Bunium persicum (Boriss) Fedtsch] and their management/T.K. Kotha, M. Azam Wani and Mushtaq Ahmad. 6. Black sigatoka: a threatening disease of banana/A. Naseema and V.K. Girija. 7. Challenges in Tackling new emerging diseases of Maize/Meena Shekhar, Ram Dutta and Sangit Kumar. 8. Integrated disease management on rapeseed-mustard/Shahid Ahmad/Pratibha Sharma and Brajesh Kumar. 9. Fungal diseases of apple and their management/D. Gupta and P.K. Sharma. 10. Diseases of Walnut and their management/J.N. Srivastava, P.K. Sharma, A. Mishra and Shahid Ahamad. 11. Occurrence and management of Die-back in chillies: an overview/Jameel Akhtar, H.C. Lal and Atul Kumar. 12. Diseases of Saffron/P.K. Sharma, A. Vaid, J.N. Srivastava, D. Gupta and Shahid Ahamad. 13. Fruit-rot of Eggplant: a threatening disease/Jameel Akhtar, Abdul Khalid and H.S. Chaube. 14. Fungal diseases of gladiolus/Kumud Jarial, Dharmesh Gupta, P.K. Sharma and U.R. Sangle. 15. Fungal diseases of stone fruits and their management/D. Gupta, P.K. Sharma and Kumud Verma. 16. Banded leaf and sheath blight of maize incited by Rhizoctonia solani f. sp. sasakii and its management/Ashraf Ali Khan and P.P. Thirumalaisamy. 17. Advances in management in Guava wilt-complex/R.K. Prajapati and R.K. Singh. 18. Rhizoctonia solani: the incitant of web blight in legumes: preview/Rakesh Kumar Singh, Manjul Pandey, Rakesh Kumar Prajapati and R.G. Chaudhary. 19. Diseases of minor millets and their control measures/S. Kumar, P.K. Sharma and U.R. Sangle. 20. Bean anthracnose: a dreaded disease of French bean and its management/Sachin Gupta, C.S. Kalha, V.K. Razdan and Vishal Gupta. 21. Epidemiology and management of alternaria blight of rapeseed-mustard/Brajesh Kumar and Shahid Ahamad. 22. Fungi as potential biocontrol agents of phytopathogens/C.R. Raghavender and B.N. Reddy. 23. Potential entomopathogenic and antagonistic fungi/Nasim Ahmad, A.A. Jafri, O.M. Bambawale and Shahid Ahamad. 24. Biopesticides: an ecofriendly, sustainable and cost effective approach for integrated disease and insect pest management of agricultural crops/B.K. Goswami, Rajesh Kumar Pandey, Sheoraj Singh and Kabindra Singh Rathour. 25. Plant growth promoting Rhizobacteria in crop plants against pests and diseases/Amit Kumar Jain, Sudhir Kumar and J.D.S. Panwar. 26. Potential donors for resistance against biotic stresses in major Agri-horticultural crops/S.K. Mishra, Ashok Kumar, J.C. Rana, Gunjeet Kumar and S.K. Sharma. 27. Recent trends in management of fungal diseases of Grapevine and their IDM/C. Ravindran and Shahid Ahamad. 28. Advances in management of carnation wilt/Sunita Chandel. Index.
"The rapid change in the agro-ecosystem leaves a snag in the establishment of harmony the discard of the disturb ecosystem due to wide usage of chemical pesticides, fertilizers, and synthetic plant growth regulators. The long term effect were overlooked hence, boom of one time become bane for the ecosystem degradation. At the present context, it has become indispensable to look for sustainable crop protection management approaches for disease management and the present book is an effort to this direction. The diseases of economic importance caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses and virus like organisms of each crop are covered, describing their history, distribution, losses incurred, symptoms, latest diagnostic tools, epidemiology and integrated applied management approaches including cultural, chemical, genetic resources, use of bio control agents being adopted world-wide. The layout of each chapter includes a brief introduction and pathogen-wise description of the diseases. Some chapters are vividly illustrated with photographs of typical symptoms, graphs, tables and line drawing to make the subject more interesting and easy to understand for students, scientists, planners, administrators, growers and other end users with latest pertinent references.
The book contains recent information on IDM, concepts and practices in integrated plant diseases management, biological control, emerging and threatening diseases of plants: detection, diagnosis and management, diseases of Saffaron and its management, fungal diseases of zeera and its management, black sigatoka: a threatening diseases of banana, diseases of walnut and their management, fruit rot of eggplant and their management, die-back of chili and its management, fungal and viral diseases of gladiolus and their management, fungal diseases of stone fruit and their management, BLSB of maize and its management, Guava Wilt Complex and its management, Web blight of legume and its management, potential entomopathogenic and antagonistic fungi; fungal diseases of apple, IDM on maize, IDM on pulses, IDM on rapeseed-mustard, diseases of minor millets and their management, bean anthracnose and its management, biopesticides, PGPR in crop plants against pests and diseases." (jacket)
