Potential Plant Protection Strategies

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Fusarium wilt of chickpea and its management/S.C. Dubey, Birendra Singh and R. Bhavani. 2. Paradigm shift in applications of Lac/S. Srivastava, Govind Pal and D. Prasad. 3. Citrus canker research: global scenario/S.G. Borkar. 4. Significance of transgenic crops in pest management/S.K. Mandal and R.K. Mandal. 5. Chemosterility: approach for insect pest management/S.K. Mandal. 6. Transgenic technology: a modern weapon in pest management/S.K. Mandal and V.B. Jha. 7. Bacterial diseases of fruit crops and their management/Dinesh Singh and R.R. Sharma. 8. Insect pests of Mungbean and Urdbean and their integrated management: a review/S.K. Singh and D.K. Yadav. 9. Integrated management of soybean insect pests for sustainable agriculture/Debjani Dey and Jaydeep Halder. 10. Modified atmosphere: an alternative to control insects in storage/Chitra Srivastava and A. Cecily. 11. Current modified three tier seed production of sugar cane/Vijay Singh, S.K. Awasthi and B.B. Joshi. 12. Eco-friendly management of potato pest/V.K. Chandla, Sonu Kashyap and Anupam Sharma. 13. Forgotten pollinator: protecting the bees from pesticided poisoning/Seema Singh Thakur. 14. Prospects of biocontrol agents against chickpea wilt/Sonika Jamwal, Anamika Jamwal and J.S. Jamwal. 15. Antifungal activity of essential oils for Ocimum sanctum on rhizoctonia solani and fusarium oxysporium/Deb Prasad Ray. 16. Application of biocontrol agents fro management of soil borne pathogens/Anamika Jamwal, Sonika Jamwal, V.S. Verma and J.S. Jamwal. 17. Insect pests of stored products and their control with plant products/M.O. Ashamo. 18. Eco-friendly management of plant parasitic nematodes in vegetable crops/V.K. Singh. 19. Use of biotechnological tools in integrated pest management/Seema Singh Thakur, A.K. Karnatak and D.C. Karnatak. 20. Management of rice diseases through induced resistance/Chinmay Biswas, S.K. Biswas and SSL Srivastava. 21. Present situation of crop losses caused by plant virus/K.K. Viswas. 22. Present scenario of management strategies of plant viral diseases/K.K. Biswas, Sumita Kumari and Avijit Tarafdar. 23. Nematophagous fungi in biocontrol of plant parasitic nematodes/Satyandra Singh and S.C. Dhawan. 24. Curry leaf (Murraya koenigii) chemistry and its role in plant protection/D.P. Ray, S. Srivastava and D. Prasad. 25. Nicotine to neonicotinoid: the most successful agrochemicals/Kaushik Majumdar, D.P. Ray and P. Dureja. 26. Genetic engineering approaches for detoxification and decontamination of pesticides/Deb Prasad Ray, K. Majumdar, S. Srivastava and G. Kulshrestha. 27. Nematodes as bioinsecticides against vegetable pests/Gitajali Devi. 28. Pest management by tissue culture/K. Elanchezhyan. 29. Integrated pest management in India: progress, problems and prospects/M.C. Diwakar, Vishwa Nath and D. Prasad. 30. Virus diseases of orchids: diagnosis and management/R.P. Pant, K.B. Pun and R.P. Medhi. 31. Trichoderma as biocontrol agent for disease management/O.P. Singh and Anil K. Jain. 32. Attraction behaviour of discolaimus major to prey nematodes and factors influencing attraction/Rashid Pervez. 33. Standardization of pathotype numbers of colletotrichum falcatum on sugar cane/Vijai Singh, S.N. Srivastava, Sunita Lal, S.K. Awasthi and B.B. Joshi. 34. Strategies to combat challenges for management of red rot in sugar cane/Vijai Singh, S.N. Srivastava, B.B. Joshi and S.K. Awashi. 35. Use of biocontrol agents and their mechanisms of action/D. Prasad and O.P. Singh. 36. Bacterial antagonists in biocontrol of plant parasitic nematodes/Satyandra Singh and S.C. Dhawan. 37. Weed an important pest/Rajvir Sharma, R.A. Marathe, Sruesh Pal and U.C. Sharma. 38. Integrated weed management in major field crops/Rajvir Sharma, R.A. Marathe, Suresh Pal and U.C. Sharma. 39. Role of composting in organic farming and plant protection/Livleen Shukla, Archana Udai Singh and D. Prasad. 40. Applications of Nanoscience and nanotechnology: a revolution in agriculture/Nishant Iyengra and S. Anju Iyengar. Index.

The present book is an attempt to analyse the problems and purpose, suitable measures for the effective management of the insect pets, plant disease and plant parasitic nematodes. An effort has been done to compile possible database information in this book which contains 40 exhaustive and thought provoking chapters by specialists in plant protection.

Fifteen chapters deal with entomological problems as a whole covering chemo-sterility, transgenic technology, insect pests of mung and urdbean, IPM, modified atmosphere for control of insects in storage eco-friendly management of potato pets, use of biotechnology tools in pest management and tissue culture and transgenic crops in pest management.

Eighteen chapters deal with plant disease like wilt of chickpea, citrus canker and bacterial diseases of fruit crops. Biocontroal of Chickpea with soil pathogens, antifungal activity of essential oils, management of rice diseases through induced resistance crop loss by viral diseases, viral diseases of orchids, Trixchoderma spp. For diseases management pathotype, management of red rot in sugarcane, biocontrol agent and mechanisms of action. There are four articles on nematology that nematodes biocontrol agents and bacterial antagonists of plant parasitic nematodes.

A few chapters are of common interest such as paradigm shift in lac application, seed production in sugar cane, genetic engineering approaches for detoxification and decontamination of pesticides and attraction behaviour of discolaimus major to prey nematodes. Besides these, three chapters are on importance of weeds, integrated weed management and role of composting in organic farming.

This book is very useful and informative for the scientists, teachers, students, scholars, administrators and policymakers dealing with pest and disease management strategies in particular and plant protection in general.