This edited volume is a comprehensive account of plant diseases and insect pests, plant protection and management for various crops using microbial and biotechnological approaches. The book elucidates the role of biotechnology for the enhancement of crop productivity and management of bacterial and fungal diseases via eco-friendly methods. It discusses croppest/ pathogen interaction and utilizing this interaction in a beneficial and sustainable way. This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, plant scientists and plant pathologists. Also the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, forestry, ecology, soil science, and environmental sciences.
Chapter
1. Biocontrol: a sustainable agricultural solution for
management of plants diseases.
Chapter
2. Overview of banana pests and
diseases and their control through biological approaches.
Chapter
3.
Introduction of cyst nematodes- Life cycle to management through biobased
amendments.
Chapter
4. Role of potential biocontrol agents for improved
health of root and tuber crops.
Chapter
5. Microbial bio-pesticides use in
Insect-Pest Management: An overview.
Chapter
6. Arbuscular mycorrhizal
fungi (AMF) for improved plant health and production.
Chapter
7.
Plant-soil-microorganism interaction involved in natural suppression of take
all disease.
Chapter
8. Improved practices through biological means for
sustainable agricultural production- an reference to roots crops.
Chapter
9.
Bacterial plant diseases management: conventional versus modern approaches.-
Chapter
10. Glimpse of tuber crop, their diseases and control mechanisms.-
Chapter
11. Soil borne fungal diseases and theircontrol in below ground
crops.
Chapter
12. PGPRs for crop health in wheat- maize cropping systems
in northwest Himalayas.
Chapter
13. Plant microbe interactions: promoting
biocontrol of phytopathogens of cereal grains.
Chapter
14. Role of
indigenous microbes for the control of major fungal pathogens of turmeric.-
Chapter
15. Microbiome role in control of sustenance of rice health and
production.
Chapter
16. Host plant resistance: An eco-friendly approach for
crop disease management.
Manoj Kaushal, Ph.D. is a Systems Scientist with nearly a decade of teaching and research experience at various national and international institutes. Currently he is working with International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and has associated with CGIAR consortium from more than six years. His research interests include cropping systems, tropical and semi-arid small holder agriculture, microbiome, and agroecologies tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Moreover, he has authored more than 50 research papers in peer reviewed journals, and book chapters.
Ram Prasad, Ph.D. is associated with Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India. His research interests: environmental microbiology, plant-microbe-interactions, sustainable agriculture and nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has more than one hundred seventy-five publications to his credit, including research papers, articles & book chapters and five patents issued or pending, and edited or authored several books. Previously, Dr. Prasad served as Assistant Professor Amity University, India; Visiting Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, United States and Research Associate Professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
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