Plant Viruses, Diseases and Their Management

Plant Viruses, Diseases and Their Management consists of 19 chapters covering all the aspects of plant viruses, diseases and their management containing information of classical as well as advanced plant virology. This textbook has given information on new advances which are taking place in the fast-evolving field of Plant Virology. It contains different separate chapters on biological and molecular property, composition, morphology, nomenclature and modern classification of plant viruses and their description. This book includes chapters on identification, isolation and purification, and protein- and nucleic acid-based modern diagnostic techniques of plant virus. The book also deals with ecology and epidemiology and general management strategies of plant viruses. Virus genome organization, genome strategy and gene function, virus replication and virus movement have also been covered extensively and illustrated diagrammatically in an organized way. Transmission of plant viruses by various biological and other means; and molecular mechanism virus-vector interaction has been covered elaborately. This book also includes a large chapter that covers almost all the important plant virus diseases occurring in India and their management. The last chapter contains practical manual and protocols of advanced techniques that will help the researcher and plant virologist. With its focus and coverage, this book serves as a text book for undergraduate, postgraduate students and research scholars in Plant Virology, Plant Pathology, Entomology, Microbiology, Agriculture, Botany, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. This book will help teachers to prepare lectures for the students in different discipline of biological and agricultural science.