ABSTRACT
To manage the economically important bacterial plant disease pathogens across the world, serious efforts have been made with partial or full success. The success in the bacterial disease management depends on the seriousness and efforts of the farmers, cultivators, nurseryman, gardeners, government agencies, seed companies, local citizens, and others who are in the chain of crop production, crop husbandry, or plant users. Per se the seed companies should see that the seeds they produce and sell are free from bacterial plant pathogens. The nurseryman should see that the nursery stock they raise and sell are free from any bacterial plant pathogens and their latent infection. In case local citizens detect the bacterial disease in their backyard or surrounding places, they must either make effort to control this or inform the local government agencies, so as to control it. Many a times the bacterial plant pathogen is found to infect the alternate host of minor importance, which must be destroyed so as to minimize the damage it may cause to their main crop host plant. Control of disease by individual cultivator or farmer sometimes does not help much as the inoculum is already present in the neighbor’s eld to cause second attack. In such case, the joint control program may be carried out. The involvement of government agencies in such case is of great signicance in the successful management of the disease.
