Advances in Soil Borne Plant Diseases

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This book is an attempt to provide critical and up-to-date review and synthesis of various facets of soil borne plant diseases taking stock of present state of art in soil borne plant pathogens. The contributors from various national laboratories, centres of excellence in research institutes and university with mastery over the subjects illustrated and review the progress, application of knowledge on soil borne plant diseases besides updating the readers with recent paradigm shift in soil borne plant diseases taking in to account the art and science of ecology and epidemiology, disease resistance, Physico-chemical and biological aspects of solarization, bio-control processes, molecular detection, genomics of bio-control, PGPR activity and the art of managing soil borne diseases in a sustainable way. The book also comprises special chapters on typical major soil borne fungal genera such as Rhizoctonia, Fusarium, Verticillium, Phytophthora and Sclerotium besides endoparasitic nematodes, Heterodera, Meloidogyne their biology, perpetuation and population dynamics and the topics on soil borne diseases of important crops like wheat, cotton, temperate fruits add to the importance and utility of the volume. The recent development in bio-control, mass production, registration, quality control, the principles of solar heating, use of mycorrhiza, utilization of on-farm wastes combined with sublethal heating and its utility in hot arid region are some of the special features of the volume. The philosophy of IDM with due consideration to ecology and economic parameters have been covered. The book caters the need of knowledge hungry students, teachers, researchers, policy makers, extension workers of general plant pathology, microbiology, microbial ecology, biological control, molecular biology, general biology and all well wishers of farmers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR M K Naik

M.K. Naik is an internationally acknowledged authority on Indian English Literature and Anglo-Indian Fiction. His History of Indian English Literature (1982; seven editions upto 2003), and its sequel (in collaboration with Shyamala Narayan), Indian English Literature 1980-2000 (2001; two editions upto 2004) are both the vade-mecum for the student. His essay, 'Towards An Aesthetic of Indian English Literature' has been included in a text-book for the British Open University. Apart from his critical studies of the 'Big Three' (Anand, Narayan, and Raja Rao), he has also written and edited several other critical volumes in this area.

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Title
Advances in Soil Borne Plant Diseases
Author
Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8189422812
Length
xvi+428p., Tables; Plates.
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