Plant Protection in New Millennium (2 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I: Foreword. Preface. 1. Plant protection for sustained agricultural growth/Anupam Varma and J.P. Verma. 2. Challenges to plant pathology and plant pathologists in developed vis-a-vis developing and transforming countries/Mrinal Kanti Dasgupta. 3. Variability, the weapon in the combat between plant and pathogen as illustrated with rice and blast/K. Muralidharan. 4. International standards for phytosanitary measures/Kavita Gupta and R.K. Khetarpal. 5. Management of seed borne pathogens/M.N. Khare and M.S. Bhale. 6. Gene deployment in wheat rust management/M. Prashar, S.C. Bhardwaj and S.K. Jain. 7. Aflatoxin contamination in agricultural commodities with special reference to groundnut: an overview/Suseelendra Desai. 8. Secondary metabolites of microbials as potential agrochemicals/Prem Dureja and Balraj Singh Parmar. 9. Fungicide resistance in crop protection : threats and management approaches/T.S. Thind. 10. Pathogenesis Related (PR) Proteins and their role in plant defense/Ratul Saikia and Dilip K. Arora. 11. Programmed cell death: a ubiquitous cell death mechanism in plant disease response/Debabrata Sarkar, Suman Kumar Pandey and A. Chanemougasoundharam. 12. The genetic architecture of Quantitative Resistance Locus (QRL) for plant disease response/Suman K. Pandey, K.R. Dhiman, Debabrata Sarkar and Sushruti Sharma. 13. Transgenic crops and biosafety issues/K.R. Koundal and Prasanta K. Dash. 14. Transgene-mediated resistance for plant disease management/Swarup Kumar Chakrabarti and Debasis Pattanayak. 15. Managing plant viruses through genomic manipulations/P. Sreenivasulu and V. Subba Reddy. 16. Plant viruses in tropics and their management/M.V. Nayudu. 17. Diseases caused by whitefly transmitted geminiviruses in India/V.G. Malathi and K.V. Sumiya. 18. Serological and molecular diagnosis of plant pathogens: a plant protection approach/S.J. Gawande, V.P. Chimote, Arti Shukla and Ashok V. Gadewar.

Vol. II: Foreword. Preface. 1. Management of phytoplasma diseases of sugarcane/G.P. Rao. 2. Advances and approaches in mitigating bacterial diseases/Ashok V. Gadewar. 3. Integrated disease management : an overview/Rajni Gupta and K.G. Mukerji. 4. Plant disease-epidemiology and forecasting with special reference to management of late blight of potato/B.P. Singh and M. Narayana Bhat. 5. Disease and pest forecasting for integrating apple crop management/V.S. Thakur and Sonali Vaidya. 6. VAM fungi as biocontrol agents for soil-borne plant pathogens/Radhey Shyam Mehrotra, Ashok Aggarwal and Vipin Parkash. 7. Biological control of plant diseases - an Indian perspective/Srikant Kulkarni and Shalini D. Sagar. 8. Utility of parasitoids in biological control/R.J. Rabindra, Chandish R. Ballal and S.K. Jalali. 9. Entomopathogenic fungi: a valuable tool to fight against insect pests/S. Chavan, V. Ghormade, P. Nahar and M.V. Deshpande. 10. Potential of plant extracts against storage pests of cereals and pulses: a review/N.N. Tripathi, Narendra Kumar, Pooja Singh and A.K. Mishra. 11. An overview of pest management in saffron - an issues, concern and remedial measures/Dileep Kachroo and C.S. Kalha. 12. Towards elucidating the techniques for studying soil-borne plant pathogens with respect to bio-ecology and management/M.K. Naik and K. Raju. 13. Role of genetic resources in management of plant disease and insect pests/J. Gopal and J.C. Rana.

"Plant lovers, food producers, planners all voice together to protect the plants from insects and diseases. Damages to the plants by insects are easily felt but not realized are the losses caused by microorganisms. The book "Plant Protection in New Millennium" in two volumes takes the stock of present state of art in plant protection, but does not primarily aim to describe pests and diseases of individual crop(s). Authors from national laboratories and centres of excellence in the universities mastering the subjects illustrates and review the progress, applications to know how in plant protection besides up dates readers with the latest paradigm shift in plant protection taking into account art of genetics, biotechnology, bioagents, epidemiology and also detection for overcoming ill effects of pesticides. Also discussed are international trade related issues for import and export of plants as well as bio-safety concern related to GMOs. The book caters the need of knowledge hungry general biologists, agriculture ministries and planners and specialists in plant protection not only the students, teachers, researchers, but all well wishers of farmers." (jacket)