Molecular Approaches for Plant Fungal Disease Management

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Molecular identification of fungal pathogens/P. Chowdapa. 2. DNA based biosensors for detection of pathogens/Ashok Kumar, Sandip K. Dash, Darshan P. Sharma and Suman. 3. DNA barcoding of seed borne fungal pathogens/H.S. Prakash, B. Archana, A.C. Udayashankar, S. Chandra Nayaka and S.R. Niranjana. 4. Molecular techniques to asses crop health/Hemant K. Gautam and Anamika Jha. 5. Elicitor active molecules from fungal cell wall/S.N. Das, J. Madhu Prakash and A.R. Podile. 6. Recognition of fungi and activation of defense responses in plants/B.N. Chakraborty. 7. Functional genomics based approaches in analysis of pathogenicity genes in colletotrichum/P. Malathi and R. Viswanathan. 8. Issues and strategies in development of fungal resistant transgenic plants/J.B. Mythili. 9. Engineering fungal resistance: promises of RNAI/M.V. Rajam and Neeur Singh. 10. Genomics of filamentous phytopathogens: new insight in pathogenesis and virulence/Kamal Kumar and Praveen K. Verma. 11. Molecular markers in breeding for fungal resistance in horticultural crop varieties and hybrids/D.C. Lakshmana Reddy , Subhada Pattanayak and C. Aswath. 12. Signaling mechanisms and plant defense/G.V.S. Saiprasad. 13. Systemic aquired resistance for plant disease management/A. Ramesh Sundar, R. Viswanthan and M. Muthumeena. 14. Molecular basis of red rot resistance in sugarcane/R. Viswanathan, A. Ramesh Sundar, P. Malathi, V. Ganesh Kumar P.R. Rahul and P.T. Pratima. 15. Molecular  mechanisms of biocontrol by Trichoderma virens/Prasun K. Mukherjee, Mala Mukherjee and A.N. Mukhopadhyay. 16. Regulatory requirements, quality control. commercialization and IPR related issues by bio pesticides/H.B. Singh. 17. Intellectual property protection for crop varieties in India/Rekha Chaturvedi. 18. Prevention and containment of emerging mushroom diseases through consolidated management practices/R.N. Verma. 19. Digital catalogue of fungi of Uttar Pradesh generated using Indian microbial diversity information system IMDIS/Sudershan Kumar, Aradhna Mishra, Leena Wahi, Uma Supyal, Abhilasha Agnihotri and H.B. Singh. Index.

Plant pathogenic fungi were responsible for some of the worlds greatest famines and human suffering. Considering the needs of students, research scholars molecular plant pathologist and biotechnologists the book entitled "Molecular Approaches for Plant Fungal Disease Management" integrates information on technological advances made in molecular fungal pathology for effective disease management to safeguard resource poor farmers, global food and nutritional security. This book lays emphasis on the recent advances on molecular identification of plant pathogenic fungi, genomics of fungal pathogens, signaling mechanisms and plant defense, molecular marker assisted selection for fungal resistance transgenic and RNAI technologies for engineering of fungal resistance molecular techniques to asses crop health and molecular mechanisms of bio control for plant disease management regulatory requirement quality control and commercialization of bio-pesticides.