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This book, Biotic Stress Management in Rice: Molecular Approaches,
addresses biotic stress of rice and its management through
molecular approaches. It focuses on the biotechnological aspects of
rice with the aim of reducing the fungicide and insecticides and
ultimately ensuring safety of rice as a food as well as the
environment. Rice is an important crop in much of the Asia-Pacific
region, and there are a number of threats to rice production,
including fungal, viral, and bacterial diseases and insect pests,
both in temperate and tropical countries, which can cause the
significant economic loss. Remarkable efforts are being made by
scientists and breeders to raise rice productivity and safety by
modifying and manipulating rice plants to survive under different
types of stresses. The book provides an understanding of the
genetic basis of resistance and susceptibility and goes on to
present studies directed to understand the host-plant interaction
in rice that have given rise to specialized breeding programs for
resistance to diseases and insect-pests. In addition to these
advancements in molecular breeding, marker-assisted selection and
transgenic approaches open new ways to increase resistance in rice
for better production under several biotic stresses. This book
covers the most recent advancements and research strategies of
molecular breeding, transgenic approaches, and other tools for
effective biotic stress management in rice. This book should find a
prominent place on the shelves of new plant breeders,
biotechnologists, plant pathologists and entomologists working in
academic and commercial rice research programs, and in the
libraries of research establishments.
This book, Biotic Stress Management in Rice: Molecular Approaches,
addresses biotic stress of rice and its management through
molecular approaches. It focuses on the biotechnological aspects of
rice with the aim of reducing the fungicide and insecticides and
ultimately ensuring safety of rice as a food as well as the
environment. Rice is an important crop in much of the Asia-Pacific
region, and there are a number of threats to rice production,
including fungal, viral, and bacterial diseases and insect pests,
both in temperate and tropical countries, which can cause the
significant economic loss. Remarkable efforts are being made by
scientists and breeders to raise rice productivity and safety by
modifying and manipulating rice plants to survive under different
types of stresses. The book provides an understanding of the
genetic basis of resistance and susceptibility and goes on to
present studies directed to understand the host-plant interaction
in rice that have given rise to specialized breeding programs for
resistance to diseases and insect-pests. In addition to these
advancements in molecular breeding, marker-assisted selection and
transgenic approaches open new ways to increase resistance in rice
for better production under several biotic stresses. This book
covers the most recent advancements and research strategies of
molecular breeding, transgenic approaches, and other tools for
effective biotic stress management in rice. This book should find a
prominent place on the shelves of new plant breeders,
biotechnologists, plant pathologists and entomologists working in
academic and commercial rice research programs, and in the
libraries of research establishments.
Rice is a major food crop for people around the world; it is a
major staple food and a source of nutrition for over 3.5 billion
people worldwide. Rice is susceptible to a number of bacterial
diseases that decrease its yield and quality. This book covers the
various bacterial diseases of rice and their management. It focuses
on various sustainable management methods-biological control,
conventional breeding methods, and molecular methods, as opposed to
chemical control, which can be hazardous to the environment. The
book provides a comprehensive view of rice bacterial diseases
starting from the identification of bacterial diseases and their
ecology to the management of bacterial disease, which includes
conventional as well as new and emerging methods. The book examines
the impact of rice bacterial diseases on global food security that
can lead to a food crisis worldwide. It discusses potential methods
for bacterial disease identification and covers the biology of rice
bacterial blight pathogen, virulence determinants, and various host
defense factors of bacterial blight pathogen-rice interactions and
traditional and recent tools for bacterial blight disease
management. Different resistance rice cultivars, their resistance
loci, and quantitative trait loci mapping in the important rice
cultivars are also discussed. The book presents biological studies
of the major rice bacterial diseases (rice bacterial brown stripe
disease, bacterial leaf streak disease, rice bacterial panicle
blight disease, rice bacterial foot rot, sheath brown rot disease)
and presents comparative analyses of conventional, breeding, and
molecular management approaches, along with a selection of
examples. Also included is a review of bioinformatics tools for
rice disease management. The up-to-date knowledge presented in
Bacterial Diseases of Rice and Their Management will serve as a
useful reference book for students, academicians, and scientists in
plant pathology as well as for molecular breeders and
biotechnologists working in the area of crop science.
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