'Trees of Agra' depicts the entire tree line of Agra comprising photographs and description of 161 trees spotted growing in the gardens, public places, the historical monuments like Taj Mahal, Sikandra, Shahjehan Park, Rambagh, Dayalbagh, educational institutions, hotels, road sides, reserve forest and the country side of Agra district.All the plants included in this book have been grouped in different well established families of plant kingdom. In all, there are 48 families, including one from monocotyledons and three from gymnosperms, representing so many trees in and around Agra. These families are arranged alphabetically for Angiosperms and Gymnosperms separately.The description of each family gives basic clues for identification of trees belonging to that family. Each family bears a common name, given in the bracket along with its order to which this family belongs, number of genera & species is also mentioned after the bracket. Likewise each plant has a common name, botanical name and the family name. The photograph of each plant in the form of figure also has the name of the place. Thus this book will help the readers to identify these trees in other places also.

Soybean rust and yellow mosaic diseases substantially reduce the yield. A Disease resistant variety developed by transfer of resistance genes in superior line is the most desirable approach. Field screening revealed significant differences among genotypes for disease reaction. Under field evaluation, none of the genotypes including rust differentials (PI 200492, PI 230970, PI 462312, 'Ankur', PI 459025, PI 200477, PI 230971, PI 459024, TK - 5 and Wayne) showed rust resistance, indicating evolution of new rust race(s); However, yellow mosaic (YMV) resistant varieties 'PK 416', 'PK 564', 'PK 1024', 'PK 1029', 'SL 528' have still maintained their resistance status. The genotypes SL 603, SL 295 remained free of YMV, while SL 328 and three derived lines from the cross PS 1024 x Ankur (F3) were highly resistant. F2 lines derived from crosses PS 1024 x Ankur, Ankur x PS 1024 and PK 416 x Samrat and genotypes Ankur, PS 1024, PS 1029, PK 416 and PS 564 were resistant. This work caters to the plant breeders and pathologist, working on the host-pathogen interactions with information on hybridization, field screening and development of disease tolerant varieties.