Crop Diseases and Their Management
Integrated Approaches
This important and comprehensive book is designed to provide information on crop diseases and how to manage those diseases. Covering a multitude of crops and diseases, the book presents integrated approaches on managing diseases that affect such crops as:
• Cereal and crop plants, such as maize, pigeon pea, chickpeas, and urd/mung beans
• Oil seed crops, such as groundnut, soybeans, and linseed
• Horticultural crops, such as citrus, onions, garlic, cucurbitaceae, Colocasia, roses,Stevia rebaudiana, betelvine, jute, and sunhemp
The book thoroughly covers the symptoms, causes, disease cycles, and management approaches for many diseases that affect useful agricultural crops.
Edited by two professors and researchers with years of experience in teaching on crop diseases, this book is suitable for students in agricultural sciences and helps to cover the recently modified course curricula in India that increases coverage of crop diseases. Crop Diseases and Their Management is also a handy reference for plant protection experts, vegetable specialists, horticultural officers, and extension workers.
Table of Contents
Preface
Cereal and Pulse Crops
Diseases and Management of Maize
R. P. Singh, Mamta Singh, and Dinesh Singh
Diseases of Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.) and Their Management
Ajay Kumar, Mahesh Singh, and Gireesh Chand
Diseases of Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.) and Their Management
Anil Kumar, Santosh Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, and Birendra Kumar
Diseases of Urd/Mung Bean Crops and Their Management
Sangita Sahni, Bishun D. Prasad, and Sunita Kumari
Oil Seed Crops
Groundnut Diseases and Their Management
Santosh Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Amarendra Kumar, and Gireesh Chand
Diseases of Soybean and Their Management
Sunil Kumar
Diseases of Linseed and Their Management
Sunil Kumar
Horticultural Crops
Nutritional Disorders of Citrus and Their Management
J. N. Srivastava, P. K. Sharma, Upma Dutta, and Rakesh Kumar
Fungal Diseases of Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.) and Their Integrated Disease Management (IDM)
C. P. Khare, Sushma Nema, J. N. Srivastava, V. K. Yadav, and N. D. Sharma
Recent Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Major Diseases of Onion and Garlic in India
R. K. Mishra, M. D. Ojha, V. S. Pandey, and R. B. Verma
Damping-Off Disease of Seedling in Solanaceous Vegetable: Current Status and Management Strategies
Kanika Pagoch, J. N. Srivastava, and Ashok Kumar Singh
Downy Mildew of Cucurbits and Their Management
C. P. Khare, J. N. Srivastava, P. K. Tiwari, A. Kotesthane, and V. S. Thrimurthi
Diseases of Colocasia Crop and Their Management
R. C. Shakywar, M. Pathak, and K. M. Singh
Diseases of Rose Crop and Their Management
R. C. Shakywar, K. S. Tomar, and R. K. Patidar
Use of Stevia Rebaudiana and Its Diseases With Management
K. K. Chandra
Major Diseases of Betelvine and Their Management
Prabhat Kumar, Shivnath Das, Ajit Kumar Pandey, and Santosh Kumar
General Issues
Diseases of Makhana and Their Management
Sangita Sahni, Bishun D. Prasad, and Sunita Kumari
Diseases of Jute and Sunhemp Crops and Thier Management
Santosh Kumar, V. K. Singh, A. N. Tripathi, and Prabhat Kumar
Mesta Pathosystems: An Overview
A. N. Tripathi, R. K. De, P. N. Meena, V. Ramesh Babu, Y. R. Meena, S. Kumar, and V. K. Singh
Characterization of Species and Parasitism in the Genus Alternaria
Udit Narain, Sandhya Kant, and Gire
Index
