Advances In Soil Borne Plant Diseases / edited by M K Naik & G S Devika Rani.

1: An Over View of Soil Borne Plant Pathogens by M.K. Naik, G.S. Devika Rani, R.D. Prasad, M.B. Patil and Bineeta Sen 2: Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn: Soil-Inhabiting Non-specialized Pathogen in Agroecosystem by Arvinder Kaur and H.S.Chaube 3: Molecular Detection and Characterization of Soil-Borne Fungal Plant Pathogens by T. R. Sharma and T.K. Jana 4: Advances in Plant Diseases Caused by Sclerotium rolfsii and Their Management by R. D. Prasad and M. K. Naik 5: Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria Mediated Strategy for Disease Management by Jayashree Gopalakrishnan 6: Genomics of Pseudomonas fluorescens and Biological Control of Soil Borne Plant Diseases by Dhananjay Naik, M.S. Rao, Abdul Rahiman Bantwal and M.K. Naik 7: Soil Borne Diseases of Wheat and their Management by Rashmi Aggarwal, P. Srinivas, K.D. Srivastava and D.V. Singh 8: Soil Borne Diseases of Temperate Fruits and their Management by J.N. Sharma and R.C. Sharma 9: Wilt Diseases of Cotton by Kannan, A. and Mayee, C.D 10: Mycorrhizae as Biological Deterrent of Plant Pathogens by M. N. Sreenivasa 11: Management of Endoparasitic Phytonematodes Particularly Meloidogyne spp. and Heterodera spp. through Non-chemical Methods by S.K. Patel, N.B. Patel and D.J. Patel 12: Use of On-farm Wastes in Management of Soil-Borne Diseases in Hot Arid Region by Satish Lodha, Sunil Israel and Ritu Mawar 13: Biological Control of Soil Borne Plant Pathogens using Trichoderma Species by R. D. Prasad and M. K. Naik 14: Lesion Nematode, Pratylenchus Species of Pulses, their Biology, Responsible Factors and Management by S.P. Tiwari and M.N. Khare 15: Soil Solarization by Polyethylene Mulching for the Management of Soil-Borne Diseases by Harender Raj 16: Integrated Management of Phytophthora Diseases by M. Gunashekaran 17: Integrated Management of Soil Borne Diseases by V.K. Gupta and R.C. Sharma

This book is an attempt to provide critical and up-to-date review and synthesis of various facets of soil borne plant diseases taking stock of present state of art in soil borne plant pathogens. The contributors from various national laboratories, centers of excellence in research institutes and university with mastery over the subjects illustrate and review the progress, application of knowledge on soil borne plant diseases besides updating the readers with recent paradigm shift in soil borne plant diseases taking in to account the art and science of ecology and epidemiology, disease resistance, physico-chemical and biological aspects of solarization, bio-control processes, molecular detection, genomics of bio-control, PGPR activity and the art of managing soil borne diseases in a sustainable way. The book also comprises special s on typical major soil borne fungal genera such as Rhizoctonia, Fusarium, Verticillium, Phytophthora and Sclerotium besides endoparasitic nematodes, Heterodera, Meloidogyne their biology, perpetuation and population dynamics and the topics on soil borne diseases of important crops like wheat, cotton and temperate fruits add to the importance and utility of the volume. The recent development in bio-control, mass production, registration, quality control, the principles of solar heating, use of mycorrhiza, utilization of on-farm wastes combined with sub-lethal heating and its utility in hot arid region are some of the special features of the volume. The philosophy of IDM with due consideration to ecology and economic parameters have been covered. The book caters the need of knowledge hungry students, teachers, researchers, policy makers, extension workers of general plant pathology, microbiology, microbial ecology, biological control, molecular biology, general biology and all well wishers of farmers.