The book disease and Insect Resistance in Plants covers in detail the principles and practices of conventional plant breeding as well as newer and recent biotechnological tools such as marker-assisted selection and transgenic crops. The book is meant as an advanced text and it is presumed that readers will have basic knowledge of plant pathogens, insect-pests and their genetics. The book can also be used as a reference book by plant pathologists, entomologists and geneticists engaged in developing germplasm with resistance to biotic stresses. An attempt is made to draw specific examples from a wide range of crop plants and their harmful parasites. An extensive reference list provides access to the original literature.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Arti Singh
Miss Arti Singh (b. 1979) is a Ph.D. Scholar at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. She has throughout been educated at Pantnagar University and was recipient of scholarship and fellowship during the course of her studies. She was also the recipient of Vice-Chancellor's Gold Medal for her academic excellence in B.Sc. (Ag.). She has worked on wheat crop in M.Sc. (Ag.) and at present is working on rice for her Ph.D. degree. She has studied large number of courses at the Graduate and Post-Graduate level, including in Agriculture, Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Statistics, Genetics and Plant Breeding and has been exposed to their basic and applied areas.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dhan Pal Singh
Dr. D.P. Singh (b. 1949) is a Professor at G.B. Plant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. He has the rich experience of 29 years of teaching various courses and of 33 years of research experience on rice, oilseeds and grain legumes. Disease and insect resistance breeding were his favoured areas. He has earlier published 4 useful books and about 200 articles including 1410 original research papers in the journals of National and International repute. In addition he has developed several useful germplasm of grain legumes with tolerance to both biotic and abiotic stresses, of these 18 have been released as cultivars and 3 have been registered as germplasm. For these outstanding achievements he has been honoured with awards and fellowships and of these, the Fellowship of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi is the most important.
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