Diseases of Field and Horticultural Crops

In keeping with advances in technologies, this book is a comprehensive and illustrated up-to-date resource on the diseases of important field and horticultural crops. This book offers full information on the causes, distribution, symptoms, epidemiology and integrated management strategies for diseases found in 30 crops. The text is illustrated with diagrams, colour photographs and tables for quick and easy understanding of the subject. It serves as source book for professional plant pathologists, students, seed companies and growers who want to identify and manage diseases.

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Diseases of rice/V. Prakasam, D. Ladha Lakshmi, G.S. Laha, D. Krishnaveni and M. Srinivas Prasad. 2. Diseases of maize/Meena Shekhar and Sangit Kumar. 3. Diseases of sorghum/I.K. Das and J.V. Patil. 4. Diseases of chickpea/S.C. Dubey and Birendra Singh. 5. Diseases of sugarcane/S.K. Duttamajumder, R. Viswanathan and G.P. Rao. 6. Diseases of tobacoo/S. Roy and S.K. Dam. 7. Diseases of bast fibre crops/Chinmay Biswas and S.K. Sarkar. 8. Diseases and groundnut/P.P. Thirumalaisamy. 9. Diseases of rapeseed mustard/P.D. Meena, C. Chattopadhyay, Lijo Thomas, Pankaj Sharma and Vinod Kumar. 10. Diseases of sunflower/M. Santha Lakshmi Prasad and S. Chander Rao. 11. Diseases of castor, safflower and sesame/R.D. Prasad and M.A. Raoof. 12. Diseases of apple and pear/I.M. Sharma, H.S. Negi, Durga Prashad and Ved Ram. 13. Diseases of stone fruits and walnuts/Ved Ram, Durga Prashad, I.M. Sharma and H.S. Negi. 14. Diseases bananas and plantains/R. Selvarajan. 15. Diseases of cardamom/C.N. Biju, R. Praveena and P. Chowdappa. 16. Crop losses in curcurbits by diseases/M. Loganathan, V. Venkattaravanappa, A.B. Rai and P. Chowdappa. 17. Diseases of carnation/S. Nakkeeran, D. Dinesh, Renukadevi, M. Jawaharlal and P. Chowdappa. 18. Diseases of chrysanthemum/S. Nakkeeran, R. Dheepa, P. Renukadevi, M. Jawaharlal and P. Chowdappa.