This volume presents the issues and challenges of crop pathogens and plant protection. Composed of the latest knowledge in plant pathology, the book covers topics such as fungal diseases of the groundnut, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, plant pathogenic fungi in the genomics era, the increased virulence of wheat rusts and oat fungal diseases.

Written by experienced and internationally recognized scientists in the field, "Future Challenges in Crop Protection Against Fungal Pathogens "is a concise yet comprehensive resource valuable for both novice as well as experienced plant scientists and researchers.

This volume presents the issues and challenges of crop pathogens and plant protection. Composed of the latest knowledge in plant pathology, the book covers topics such as fungal diseases of the groundnut, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, plant pathogenic fungi in the genomics era, the increased virulence of wheat rusts and oat fungal diseases. Written by experienced and internationally recognized scientists in the field, Future Challenges in Crop Protection Against Fungal Pathogens is a concise yet comprehensive resource valuable for both novice as well as experienced plant scientists and researchers.

Microbial technology plays an integral role in the biotechnology, bioengineering, biomedicine/biopharmaceuticals and agriculture sector. This book provides a detailed compendium of the methods, biotechnological routes, and processes used to investigate different aspects of microbial resources and applications. It covers the fundamental and applied aspects of microorganisms in the health, industry, agriculture and environmental sectors, reviewing subjects as varied and topical as pest control, health and industrial developments and animal feed.

There have been rapid advances in the field of plant biotechnology in recent years, increasing the potential for medical application. Covering the latest advances in the use of plants to produce medicinal drugs and vaccines, this volume examines topics including plant tissue culture, secondary metabolite production, metabolomics and metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, molecular farming and future biotechnological directions, with contributors from key researchers in the field. "Medicinal Plant Biotechnology" is an essential reference for researchers in plant biology and biotechnology, medical sciences and pharmacology.

Wheat one of the most important cereal crop, feeds about 40% of the global population. Due to the very large size of the genome, presence of three homoeologus groups with 80% repetitive DNA in the genome; makes any attempt of achieving success in wheat molecular mapping extremely challenging. Also, since recombination rates vary in different parts of the genome, there is a clear need to construct the physical maps, which can then be compared with genetic maps to make them useful for both marker assisted selection and map-based cloning.This study on bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L. em Thell.) was undertaken mainly to develop whole genome physical map of simple sequence repeats (SSRs; also described as microsatellites) including both, genomic-SSRs (gSSRs) and expressed sequence tag-SSRs (EST-SSRs). In this context, a total of 1508 SSRs were attempted for physical mapping; of these only 641 SSRs could be mapped to 1028 loci. The present study will certainly attract the attention of researchers, scientist and plant breeders working on wheat and other cereal crops particularly in areas of molecular mapping in wheat.