Pests and Pathogens : Management Strategies
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Insect Pests of Rice in India and their Management/J.S. Bentur. 2. Rice Diseases of Importance and the Management Options in India/C.S. Reddy. 3. Biotechnological Approaches for Management of Grain Mold Disease of Sorghum/K. Ulganathan. 4. Major Biotic Stresses of Chickpea and Strategies for their Control/Gurjar G, Mishra M, Kotkar H, Upasani M, Soni P, Tamhane V, Kadoo N, Giri A and Gupta V. 5. Potential of Transgenic Grain Legumes for Pest Management and Sustainable Crop Production/H. C. Sharma, M.K. Dhillon, Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur, K.K. Sharma and Mike Butterfield. 6. Integrated Pest Management in Grain Legume Crops in India/G.V. Ranga Rao and V. Rameshwar Rao. 7. Insect Pests of Castor (Ricinus communis L) and their Management Strategies/M. Sujatha, P.S. Vimala Devi and T.P. Reddy. 8. Biology and Management of Forest Insect Pests/R.W. Alexander Jesudasan. 9. Botanical Pesticides for Management of Insect Pests in Field and Stored Rice/Anand Prakash, Jagadiswari Rao and V. Nandagopal. 10. Botanicals for the Management of Phytonematodes/Archana U Singh, Vijendra Singh and D. Prasad. 11. Microbial Chitinases as Potential Biopesticides/Appa Rao Podile and Ch. Neeraja. 12. Insect Resistance to Pyrethroid with Special Reference to the Cotton Bollworm/Ashraf O. Abd El-Latif and B. Subrahmanyam. 13. Effect of Climate Change on Insects, Pathogens, Plants and Pesticide Usage/B. Vasantharaj David and G. Shankar. 14. Molecular Marker-assisted Breeding for Improving Disease Resistance in Crop Plants/B.M. Prasanna and Firoz Hossain. 15. Antimicrobial Peptides and Production of Disease Resistant Transgenic Plants/Ramadevi R, Rao K.V and Reddy V.D. 16. Plant Lectins and their Utilization for Development of Insect Resistant Transgenic Crop Plants/Y. Bharathi, T.P. Reddy, V.D. Reddy and K.V. Rao. 17. Insect-Resistant Transgenic Crops/B. Kiran Kumar and P. Ananda Kumar. 18. Bioinformatics with Solutions in Pest Management Science: An Insight into the Evolving Technologies/U.S.N. Murthy and Amit Kumar Banerjee. 19. Concepts and Components of Integrated Pest Management/P. Nagaraja Rao and Asif Tanweer.
The need and demand to feed the ever-increasing global population, pose major challenges for increasing crop productivity in eco-friendly manner. Cultivation of crops under input-intensive conditions resulted in enhanced vulnerability of the high-yielding cultivars to a multitude of pests and pathogens at all phenological stages.
Disease spectrum and intensity are continuously changing because of the dynamic nature of crop systems, pests and pathogens. Thus, disease management has become the major functional component of the crop production systems.
Topics Covered: Insect Pests/Pathogens of Rice, Sorghum, Chickpea and Castor and their Management. Molecular Marker-assisted Breeding and Transgenic Crops for Disease Management. Management of Forest Insect Pests. Effect of Climate Change on Insects, Pathogens, Plants and Pesticide usage. Botanicals and Microbial Pesticides and Insect Resistance to Synthetic Pesticides. Integrated Pest Management and Bioinformatic Solutions.
