Pests and Pathogens: Management Strategies

Pests and Pathogens: Management Strategies

Editor(s): Vudem D. Reddy, Osmania University Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India; Poduri N. Rao, Osmania University Department of Zoology, Hyderabad, India; Khareedu V. Rao, Osmania University Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

ISBN: 9780415665766
Publication Date: July 12, 2011
Number of Pages: 590
Binding(s): Hardback

Summary
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 & Microbial Pesticides and Insect Resistance;
• Integrated Pest Management and Bioinformatics' Solutions.

Contents

1. Insect Pests of Rice in India and their Management 2. Rice Diseases of Importance and the Management Options in India 3. Biotechnological Approaches for Management of Grain Mold Disease of Sorghum 4. Major Biotic Stresses of Chickpea and Strategies for their Control 5. Potential of Transgenic Grain Legumes for Pest Management and Sustainable Crop Production 6. Integrated Pest Management in Grain Legume Crops in India 7. Insect Pests of Castor (Ricinus communis L) and their Management Strategies 8. Biology and Management of Forest Insect Pests 9. Botanical Pesticides for Management of Insect Pests in Field and Stored Rice 10. Botanicals for the Management of Phytonematodes 11. Microbial Chitinases as Potential Biopesticides 12. Insect Resistance to Pyrethroid with Special Reference to the Cotton Bollworm 13. Effect of Climate Change on Insects, Pathogens, Plants and Pesticide Usage 14. Molecular Marker-assisted Breeding for Improving Disease Resistance in Crop Plants 15. Antimicrobial Peptides and Production of Disease Resistant Transgenic Plants 16. Plant Lectins and their Utilization for Development of Insect Resistant Transgenic Crop Plants 17. Insect-Resistant Transgenic Crops 18. Bioinformatics with Solutions in Pest Management Science: An Insight into the Evolving Technologies 19. Concepts and Components of Integrated Pest Management