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India is one of the mega-biodiversity nations richly endowed with 45,000 plant species and about 7,000 plants are recognized and being used in Indian system of medicines like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy. There has been considerable emphasis on research and development on medicinal and aromatic plants for few decades, however, very little information on diseases and insect pests of these valuable plants is available in the country.
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The book comprises of the importance of bast fibre crops in agricultural scenario and their pathogen-oriented disease syndromes. The book also deals with various pathological events expressed by the hosts due to attack in their growth period. Pathological events include type of disease, identification of the disease-causing agent (i.e. pathogen) and the factors favourable for such infection.
Special emphasis has been given to the occurrence of newer pathogens and ...
In one place, this ready-to-use compendium summarizes the biotic diseases, insect pests, abiotic stress induced disorders and invasive and emerging threats for plantation crops production. This is an invaluable document to plant pathologists, entomologists, agronomists, soil scientists, extension personnel, growers, students, plantation consultants, regulatory authorities and other interested in the plantation crops.
The term biotechnology is a fusion of biology and technology. The area is multidisciplinary, vast and highly divergent, which has made precise definition of the subject rather difficult, it is a basically the controlled use of biological agents, such as micro-organisms or cellular components for human beneficial use. This book entitled “Biotechnology for Human welfare” consists of 34 chapters. The chapters are mainly focused on the newer technological ...
Thesaurus of Extension Education is a systematic and whole some compilation in the field of extension education consisting of large number of terms, concepts and ideas from various related disciplines of extension like agricultural extension, sociology, educational psychology, rural development, communication, training, information and communication technology, statistics, research methodology in social sciences, teaching-learning and program planning. It serves ...