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Crop Disease - Identification, Treatment and Management (Hardcover)
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Crop Disease - Identification, Treatment and Management (Hardcover)
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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
entrepreneuThe 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.
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