Insect Pest and Disease Management

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Adaptable IPM Technology for vegetable crops/H.R. Sardana and R.K. Tanwar. 2. Insect pheromones in IPM: problems and prospects/H.P. Misra. 3. Role of sex pheromones in management of Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner)/Krishna Kant. 4. Integrated approach for management of major insect-pests of sugarcane/M.K. Gupta, A.K. Sarma and K.M. Singh. 5. Integrated ecofriendly management of jute pests/U.S. Yadav and S.S. Prasad. 6. Insect pest of mungbean and urdbean and their integrated management/S.K. Singh and D.K. Yadav. 7. Status and strategies on management of coconut Eriophyid mite/C. Muthiah. 8. Sustainable management of bud fly, Dasyneura lini Barnes in linseed/Y.P. Malik. 9. Ecofriendly strategies for management of Thrips palmi Karny as pest and vector/Anuj Bhatnagar. 10. Spiders: bio-ecology and conservation for insect pest management/R.K. Tanwar, O.M. Bambawale and H.R. Sardana. 11. Impact of Thiamethoxam on spiders in sugarcane ecosystem/C. Vijayaraghavan and A. Regupathy. 12. Life table and biotic potential of Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) on Chickpea/S.K. Singh and D.K. Yadav. 13. Insect pathogens and pest management/R.K. Murali Baskaran, D.S. Rajavel and K. Suresh. 14. Rice diseases and their management through biocontrol agents/Ashraf Ali Khan and D. Prasad. 15. Eco-friendly approaches for Sclerotinia disease management in vegetable crops/Ramesh Singh, Udit Narain and Alka. 16. Integrated disease management in pulses/Jameel Akhtar, V.B. Nargund and Abdul Khalid. 17. Eco-friendly approaches: combat for rice diseases/Ali Anwar, G.N. Bhat, K.A. Bhat, M. Shahjahan Dar and F.A. Khan. 18. Active oxygen in plant disease control: possible role and future scope/Chinmay Biswas, S.K. Biswas and S.S.L. Srivastava. 19. Sclerotinia stem rot of mustard and its management/Rajendra Prasad and Saroj Kumar. 20. Spot blotch of wheat: management options with special reference to biological control/S.K. Biswas, Chinmay Biswas, Biswajit Bhowmik and S.S.L. Srivastava. 21. Ecological sustainable management of sheath blight disease of rice/Rajbir Singh, A.P. Sinha, Ashraf Ali Khan, G.P. Gangwar and D. Prasad. 22. Integrated disease management on maize/Shahid Ahamad. 23. Present scenario of management strategies of plant viral diseases/K.K. Biswas, Sumita Kumari and Avijit Tarafdar. 24. Bacterial endophytes of plants and their uses in agriculture/Biswajit Bhowmik, Tusar Kanti Bag and S.K. Biswas. 25. Major diseases of medicinal plants/P.K. Gupta, N.D. Sharma and Yogita Gharde. 26. Ecofreindly management of late blight disease of potato in the plains of West Bengal/Amitava Basu. 27. Strategies to combat challenges for management of red rot in sugarcane/Vijai Singh, S.N. Srivastava, B.B. Joshi and S.K. Awasthi. 28. Eco-friendly management of insect pests and nematodes in hill horticultural crops/R.P. Soundararajan and V. Lakshmanan. 29. Entomopathogenic nematodes: a potential biocontrol agent/D. Prasad. 30. Eco-friendly management of plant parasitic nematodes in vegetable crops/V.K. Singh. 31. Nematode egg parasitic fungus, Pochonia chlamydosporia/I. Cannayane and E.I. Jonathan. 32. Anti-nutritional compounds in pulses/Amit Kumar Jain, Sudhir Kumar, Om Prakash Singh and J.D.S. Panwar. 33. Root-knot nematode problems in nursery and young tea/B.C. Bora and P.P. Neog. 34. Ufra: a nematode disease in deep water rice and its management/Debanand Das and Bharot Ch. Bora. 35. Biotechnological approaches in IPM: scope and recent development/N. Emmanuel and Swaran Dhingra. 36. Management of rats/S.C. Khanna. 37. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria in major pests and diseases control/Amit Kumar Jain, Sudhir Kumar, Om Prakash Singh and J.D.S. Panwar. 38. Present situation of crop losses caused by plant virus/K.K. Biswas. 39. Response of rhizobium with sulphur and micronutrients on seed quality of black gram (Vigna mungo L. Hepper)/Brijesh Kumar Rathi, Amit Kumar Jain, Sudhir Kumar and J.D.S. Panwar. 40. Advances in diagnosis and management of banana bunchy top disease/Mohd. Akram and Rajesh Kumar. 41. New paradigms in weed management in India/Nisha K. Chopra, Neelam Kumar Chopra, S.N. Sinha and Derhinder Chowdary. Index. 

"Of late, frequent application and large scale use of pesticides for control of pests led to the endangerment of agro-ecosystem. Indiscriminate use of insecticides resulted in the destruction of parasitoids and predators of the pests and ultimately led to the resistance of pests of insecticides and insect resurgence. In the light of these problems, considerable research has been devoted to the elucidation of the toxic residues in/on consumable produce. Considering the seriousness insecticide problems, there is an urgent need for developing effective economically viable and environmentally safe pest management system. Exploitation of bioagents, biopesticides, biointensive integrated pest management and need base use of pesticides have greater role and scope in overall insect pest and disease management. The publication this book is timely and appropriate for the plant protectionists. There are 41 thought provoking chapters on entomology, plant pathology, nematology and weed science written by the scientists who are experts in their subject. The book is an asset for the policy makers, administrators, teachers, research workers and students who may be referring the literature time to time." (jacket)