Book Description
Offers hundreds of photographs to help identify common garden pests and diseases, and gives detailed advice on treatment, control, and prevention.
Author : Pippa Greenwood
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Gardening
ISBN :
Offers hundreds of photographs to help identify common garden pests and diseases, and gives detailed advice on treatment, control, and prevention.
Author : Darwin Henry
Publisher : New India Publishing Agency
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789380235462
Plant diseases are among the important factors that are responsible for causing yield loss in crop production. The loss due to diseases alone is estimated to be around 26 per cent. Diseases may attack at any stage of the standing crop, from seedlings till maturity of the crop. They may affect different parts of the plants, such as foliage, stem, root, flowers or seed and cause various types of symptoms, while the diseases such as wilt affect the entire plant. All these ultimately result in the reduction of yield and poor quality of the produce. Further, many pathogens continue to attack the stored grains and stored produce, and cause spoilage. To save the crops from diseases caused by pathogens and thereby to increase crop production, it is imminent that diseases have to be controlled by any means. To adopt various strategies for the control of pathogens, one should have some basic knowledge about the symptoms produced by the pathogens, their life cycle, mode of survival and spread, and the stage at which the host is most vulnerable to attack by the pathogens. Most of the cultivated varieties of different crops are susceptible to one disease or another, while some others are susceptible to many diseases. Even resistant cultivars of some of the crop species may become susceptible to some specific diseases in course of time as a result of development of new physiologic races of the pathogen by hybridization or natural mutation or when the environmental conditions are highly favorable for the pathogen and not quite favorable for the host. In this book the authors have given a detailed account of the major diseases of important field crops and horticultural crops, and their management. The text is substantiated with many hand-drawn illustrations, which are of excellent quality and in fact it is the highlight of the book. A on important edible mushrooms commonly grown in India, methods of cultivation of different mushrooms, diseases and pests attacking mushroom beds and mushrooms is also included in the book. This may be quite useful to emerging entrepreneur The book, which has been compiled as per the undergraduate syllabus of agricultural institutions, will also be of use to postgraduate students and to those working in the department of agriculture.
Author : R. S. Singh
Publisher : Oxford and IBH Publishing
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Plant diseases
ISBN : 9788120417465
Plants are primary producers of food for humans as well as animals beneficial for human welfare. Apart from their role as suppliers of food, plants immensely contribute to availability of fibers for clothing, timer for house building and furniture, sources of medicine, etc, shortage of food is the most important challenge in the present day civilization. With rapid increase in global population the demand on food sources has increased tremendously. Nearly 1400 million hectare land (12% of the earth's surface) is under cultivation and 80% of the cultivated land area is under some form of food crops. In spite of this there is hunger in substantially large areas.
Author : Nathan Augustus Cobb
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Nematodes
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309035422
Authored by an integrated committee of plant and animal scientists, this review of newer molecular genetic techniques and traditional research methods is presented as a compilation of high-reward opportunities for agricultural research. Directed to the Agricultural Research Service and the agricultural research community at large, the volume discusses biosciences research in genetic engineering, animal science, plant science, and plant diseases and insect pests. An optimal climate for productive research is discussed.
Author : N. A. Cobb
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 1893
Category :
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Author : L.P. Awasthi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8132225716
This book is a compilation of the most challenging and significant chapters on the diagnosis and management of important bacterial, fungal, viral, viroid, phytoplasma, non parasitic diseases and various physiological disorders, in various crops. The chapters have been contributed by eminent plant pathologists, having wide experience of teaching and research on various crops with different types of diseases, which cause great economic losses. The book would be very useful for students, teachers and researchers of plant pathology. This book highlights recent advances made in the development of new types of resistance in host plants and alternative strategies for managing plant diseases to improve food quality and reduce the negative public health impact associated with plant diseases. Having entered into 21st century advancements in the Diagnosis of Plant Pathogens and Plant Disease Management need to be closely examined and adequately applied, so that newer challenges facing plant pathology could be adequately addressed in attaining food security for the growing population. Substantial advancements have been made in terms of expanding knowledge base of the biology of plant-microbial interactions, disease management strategies and application and practice of Plant Pathology. Application of molecular biology in Plant Pathology has greatly improved our ability to detect plant pathogens and in increasing our understanding, their ecology and epidemiology. Similarly, new technologies and resources have been evolved for the development of sustainable crop protection systems by different control strategies against various pests and pathogens that are important components of the integrated pest management programme. Natural products and chemical compounds discovered as a result of basic research and molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis have led to the development of “biorational” pesticides. Biological control has been found to be the most significant approach to plant health management during the twentieth century and promises using modern biotechnology, to be even more significant in the twenty-first century.
Author : Chukwuebuka Egbuna
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0128193050
Natural Remedies for Pest, Disease and Weed Control presents alternative solutions in the form of eco-friendly, natural remedies. Written by senior researchers and professionals with many years of experience from diverse fields in biopesticides, the book presents scientific information on novel plant families with pesticidal properties and their formulations. It also covers chapters on microbial pest control and control of weeds by allelopathic compounds. This book will be invaluable to plant pathologists, agrochemists, plant biochemists, botanists, environmental chemists and farmers, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students. Details microbial biopesticides and other bio-botanical derived pesticides and their formulation Contains case studies for major crops and plants Discuses phytochemicals of plant-derived essential oils
Author : Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Publisher : Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781889538174
Home gardeners can diagnose plant diseases correctly and treat them effectively using the least toxic methods available with the information provided in this comprehensive book. The ecologically minded gardener will understand the complex nature of plant pathogens and learn to identify symptoms of diseases and disorders. Information about the most common and devastating plant diseases that afflict trees, turf grasses, vegetables, and ornamental plants is given. Although a preventive approach is stressed, should diseases get a foothold, this book contains a thorough discussion of the range of the least toxic disease controls. Many of the remedies can be mixed from readily available ingredients and, when used responsibly, will protect the gardener and the environment.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Agricultural pests
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