ABSTRACT

This new 2-volume set, Diseases of Field Crops: Diagnosis and Management, helps to fill the need for research on plant diseases, their effects, how they spread, and effective management measures to mitigate their harmful effects.

The volumes in this set showcase recent advances in molecular plant pathology and discuss appropriate diagnostic techniques for identification of causal agents and diseases, providing the information necessary to establish management strategies. The chapters in these two volumes include detailed description of symptoms, causal organisms, disease cycles, epidemiology, and management techniques of economically important diseases. The volumes explore existing strategies and offer new methods that can be used in an integrated manner and with a comprehensive approach for the management of major diseases of the field crops. Also taken into consideration is the impact of global climate change on the spread and severity of plant diseases.

Volume 1: Cereals, Small Millets, and Fiber Crops, 1. Present Scenario of Diseases in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) and Their Management, 2. Disease Spectrum in Wheat and Barley under Different Agro-Ecological Conditions in India and Management Strategies, 3. Ug99: Wheat Stem Rust Race: Exploring the World, 4. Current Status of Bajra/Pearl Millet Diseases and their Management, 5. Diseases of Maize Crops and Their Integrated Management, 6. Brown Stripe Downy Mildew of Maize and Its Integrated Management, 7. Major Diseases of Sorghum and Their Management, 8. Problem of Common Leaf Blight (Exserohilum turcicum (Pass.) Leonard & Suggs) in Sorghum and Their Management, 9. Banyard Millet/Japanese Millet or Sawan (Echinochloa frumentacea L.) Diseases and Their Management Strategies, 10. Common Millet or Proso Millet or Cheena Millet or French Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) Diseases and Their Management Strategies, 11. Finger Millet or Ragi (Eleusine xoracana Gaertn.) Diseases and Their Management Strategies, 12. Foxtail Millet or Italian Millet or Halian Millet or Moha Millet or Kakun (Staria italika L.) Diseases and Their Management Strategies, 13. Kodo Millet or Kodo (Paspalum scorbiculatum L.) Diseases and Their Management Strategies, 14. Little Millet or Gundali or Goudli or Gondola (Panicum miliare L.) Diseases and Their Management Strategies, 15. Present Scenario of Diseases in Cotton and Their Management, 16. Disease Spectrum in Jute and Their Management, 17. Present Scenario of Diseases of Jute and Their Integrated Management, 18. Nematode Diseases of Cereal Crops and Their Management, Volume 2: Pulses, Oil Seeds, Narcotics, and Sugar Crops, 1. Current Status of Bengal Gram Diseases and Their Management Strategies, 2. Current Status of Chickpea Diseases and Their Integrated Management, 3. Important Diseases of Field Pea (Pisum sativum Var. Arvense) and Their Management, 4. Important Diseases of Green Gram (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek) and Their Management, 5. Integrated Disease Management of Horse Gram (Macrotyloma uniflorum), 6. Diseases of Lentil (Lens esculentus Moench) and Their Management, 7. Diseases of Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.) and Their Management, 8. Integrated Disease Management in Pigeonpea, 9. Important Diseases of Soybean Crop and Their Management, 10. Current Status of Castor Diseases and Their Management, 11. Current Status Groundnut (Arachis hypogae L.) Diseases and Their Management, 12. Current Status of Linseed (Linum usitatisimum L.) Diseases and Their Management, 13. Present Scenario of Rapeseed-Mustard Diseases and Their Integrated Management, 14. Important Diseases of Sesamum (Sesamum indicum L.) and Their Management, 15. Sunflower Diseases and Their Management by Integrated Approach, 16. Diseases of Taramira (Eruca sativa Mill.) and Their Management: An Indian Perspective, 17. Current Status of Smut Disease of Sugarcane and Its Management in India, 18. Diseases of Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum Linn.) and Their Management