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 threat in their successful cultivation. Epidemics of scab and premature leaf fall in apple, mango malformation, bacterial wilt of solanaceous vegetables and ginger rhizome rot have challenged the growers in the recent past, apart from large scale drying of shisham and kikar in northern India. This book is based on a symposium on ‘Challenging Problems in Horticultural and Forest Pathology’ held on November, 2003 at Dr.Y.S. Parmar University of Horticultural and Forestry, Nauni, Soaln in which the experts highlighted the major disease problems inflicting horticultural and forest crops. Challenging diseases problems of major fruits, vegetables, mushrooms and forest crops caused by fungal, bacterial and viral pathogens are elaborated in this book along with available management technology. Recent developments in disease diagnosis by molecular methods, and sanitary and phyto-sanitary issues for trade in horticultural crops are also included. It is hoped that this book will be beneficial to the users including policy-makers, horticulturists, teachers and students.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR J.N. Sharma
Dr. J.N. Sharma, Plant Pathologist, Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Dr. Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan. A meritorious student throughout, awarded merit scholarship in B.Sc. (Agri.), ICAR (HRDP) scholarship in M.Sc. (Agri.) and ICAR (UNDP) fellowship in Ph.D. He is credited with the diagnosis and control of premature leaf fall problem of apple in Himachal Pradesh and was awarded a certificate of honour and cash prize by Dr. Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan for this break-through. Recipient of P.P. Singhal Memorial Pesticides India Commendation Award in 2000 from the Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology. He remained Councillor of Indian Phytopathological Society (North Zone) for 2003. He has published more than 45 research papers, 20 popular articles, 15 book chapters and 5 technical/information bulletins. Remained a member of various State level committees and designated as a Coordinator for research work on premature leaf fall problem of apple in Himachal Pradesh.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR R C Sharma
Prof. R.C. Sharma headed important Museums of the country like Government Museum, Mathura; State Museum, Lucknow; Indian Museum,, Kolkata and finally, the Natioinal Museum, New Delhi as the Director-General and Vice-Chancellor, National Museum Institute. He also served the Banaras Hindu University as the Director, Bharat Kala Bhavan and Professor of Indian art and Museology. Presently, he is the Honorary Director / Acharya of Jnana-Pravaha – Centre for Cultural Studies, Varanasi. Beside authoring several books and editing journals and bulletins in the field of Early Indian Art, he has contributed a large number of papers published in the journals in India and abroad.
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