J.N. Sharma
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Plant diseases often are the worst natural hazards in agriculture, horticulture and forestry. New diseases and new biotypes of existing disease producing organisms appear from time to time in more virulent forms. The most startling aspect of plant diseases is that their management cost us a huge sum every year with serious consequences in environment and human health. Therefore, integrated disease management practices need to be refined and adopted to reduce the ...
After self-sufficiency in food production, major focus of modern agriculture in India is on diversification, and horticultural crops have become an important component of diversified agriculture. Similarly, systematic management of forests is also the need of the hour in view of dwindling forest cover in this age of development and urbanization. Apart from other constraints, appearance of diseases problems especially in horticultural crops has posed a serious ...
Advances made in the field of molecular biology during the last two and half decades has resulted in a lot of changes in the taxonomy and nomenclature of fungi, bacteria and viruses. Many new plant diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses and protozoa have also been described during this period. Keeping these advances in view, an annotated list of different plant pathogens, diseases and their vectors is presented for a ready reference in this book. It contains ...