Plant Health Management
Contents: 1. Important diseases of orchids and their management/R.P. Pant, Smita Gupta and R.P. Medhi. 2. Recent advances in the management of spike diseases of wheat/Jagdish Kumar. 3. Diseases of pearl millet and their management/Arun Kumar. 4. Diseases of leguminous trees and their management/R.K. Verma, Jagrati Parihar and C.K. Tiwari. 5. Mulberry diseases of India and its management/M.D. Maji. 6. Banded leaf and Sheath Blight of Maize: a disease of National importance/Nishat Asif and P. Srinivas. 7. Biology and management of dry root rot of pulses incited by macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi.) Goid/Naik, M.K. and Manjunatha S.V. 8. Biology and management of Cercospora Leaf spot diseases of crops/M.K. Naik, K.M. Swamy, S. Sudha and S. Patil. 9. Alternaria blight in rapeseed mustard: a chronic problem/Poonam Goyal, P.D. Meena, R.P. Awasthi, A.P. Mathur, S.J. Kolte and C. Chattopadhyay. 10. Recent advances in the management of diseases of pulse crops/Hukma Ram and R.N. Pandey. 11. Tillage and plant diseases/M.M. Ansari. 12. Apple diseases and their management/Vijay Singh Thakur. 13. Cercosporin: a photoactivated toxin in fungal pathogenesis of plants/Prabhat Kumar, Vineeta Singh and Ramesh Chand. 14. Gummosis of citrus-main cause of decline in Mandrain/Purnima Das. 15. Eco-Friendly management of bacterial wilt of tomato caused by Ralstonia solanacearum/Pardeep Kumar. 16. Phytoplasma diseases associated with ornamental pants in India/Yamini Chaturvedi and G.P. Rao. 17. Viral diseases of solanaceous crops/P.A. Fugro. 18. Virus diseases of cucurbits/P.A. Fugro. 19. Some plant pathogenic ditylenchus species: their present status and future strategies/S.P. Tiwari, M.N. Khare and M. Gour. 20. Durable resistance in plant disease management/Chanda Kushwaha, Ramesh Chand and Musaed Naji Eissa Nasser. 21. Using fungi and yeasts to manage post harvest diseases of perishables/Neeta Sharma, Anupama Tewari, Madhu Prakash Srivastava and Avantina S. Bhandari. 22. Nanotechnology: an emerging approach in plant disease management/D.N. Upadhyay and S. Banik.
Plant diseases have affected the existence, growth and productivity of all kinds of plants. Plant disease epidemics make it evident that they affected not only the concerned countries but also other countries of the world. For plant disease management there should be integration of all methods directed in favour of the host, against the pathogen and for the modification of the environment.
The present book Plant Health Management contain 22 articles covering information on major plant diseases and their management with special reference to the Indian scenario.
