Plant Protection and Pest Management

Today pests account for about 40 per cent loss of agricultural yield not withstanding losses due to heavy application of chemicals. The present book covers information on ant microbial properties of species, plant parasitic nematodes of pulses and bacteria in the management of plant parasitic nematodes. This book provides a comprehensive and critical review of various pests, and their control. The acute shortage of food supplies in several countries and the rapid in several countries and the rapid increase in population have, in recent years brought to the forefront the dire necessity to conserve as much of the crop yields as possible by reducing the losses caused by diseases. To check plant diseases it becomes necessary to know about the cause of the disease, life history of the causal organism and of the meteorological conditions which influence the host and parasite interaction.