Contents: Preface. I. Aquatic microbes: 1. Seasonal occurrence and movements of fungi in streams/F. Barlocher. 2. Zoosporic fungi in the neotropics/A.I. Milanez. 3. Aquatic fungi and their activity in Kumaun Himalaya : a review/R.D. Khulbe. 4. Effect of light and some chemicals on the growth and development of Calothrix marchica/A.S. Ahluwalia and R. Mann. II. Soil & seed mycroflora: 1. On some aspects of microbial activity in soil/R.C. Dubey, L. Pandey and R. Gaur. 2. Distribution and seasonal periodicity of Saprolegniaceae and Pythium in certain crop fields of Tarai region of Nainital, India/B.L. Verma and R.D. Khulbe. 3. Seed-borne fungal mycoflora of agricultural crops of Himalayan region of Nepal/K. Shrestha and R.D. Timila. 4. Seed Mycoflora of certain Cucurbitaceous vegetables in Haldwani area of Kumaun, Himalaya/R.D. Khulbe, A. Durgapal & C.S. Joshi. 5. Studies of Mycoflora associated with seeds of chilli and tomato crops in Ramnagar area of Kumaun Himalaya/R.D. Khulbe and Chandra Joshi. 6. Fungal deterioration of storage seeds of Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, B. oleracea var. capitata and Raphanus sativus in Kumaun Himalaya/R.D. Khulbe and P. Harbola. 7. Pythium spinosum Sawada and P. aphanidermatum (Edron) Fitz, as parasitic to tomato seedlings/R.S. Negi and R.D. Khulbe. 8. Mycoflora associated with the seeds of Pea (Pisum sativum L.) in storage and field conditions of Garampani area/R.D. Khulbe, D.C. Sati, M.C. Sati and A.P. Dhyani. 9. Role of saprophytic mycoflora in deterioration of Lahi seeds under storage and field conditions of Kumaun Hills/A.P. Dhyani, M.C. Sati and R.D. Khulbe. 10. Study of disease symptoms in relation to taxonomy of the causal organisms/R.D. Khulbe, M.C. Sati and A.P. Dhyani. III. Leaf, fruit & bee mycoflora: 1. Fungal diseases of some important crop plants grown in Garhwal Himalaya/G.S. Bisht and S.L. Srivastava. 2. Ecology of leaf surface fungi on Setaria italica (Linn.) Beauv, in Kumaun Himalaya/M.L. Upadhyay and R.C. Gupta. 3. Studies on control measures of late blight of potato in the nomadic areas of Garhwal Himalaya/S.L. Srivastava and G.S. Bisht. 4. Survey of leaf spot diseases of Pithoragarh Hills : a brief note/R.S. Adhikari. 5. Virus and mycoplasma diseases of fruit trees in Garhwal Himalaya/B.D. Suteri. 6. Some important fungal diseases of fruit plants in Himalayan region/V.B. Jain and S.D. Lal. 7. Post harvest diseases of fruits and their control/P.K. Nagar. 8. Important diseases of ornamental plants in Kumaun Hills of U.P. with their control measures/S.D. Lal and K.C. Tripathi. 9. Diseases of conifers in the Himalayas and their control/R.C. Sharma. 10. The tree Mycorrhiza/T.N. Lakhanpal. 11. Mycorrhizal association with particular reference to tea/M. Sharma and Rashmi. 12. Some important diseases of Indian bee (Apis cerana indica Feb.) in Himalayan region/N.K. Joshi. IV. Lichens, higher & edible fungi: 1. High altitude lichens from western Himalaya : a survey/M.P. Sharma and R. Tayal. 2. Some saxicolous lichens of Nainital, Kumaun Himalaya-I/S.C. Sati, P. Tewari and P. Joshi. 3. Some corticolous lichens of Ninital, Kumaun Himalaya-II/S.C. Sati, P. Joshi and P. Tewari. 4. Lichens from Sat Tal (Nainital) of Kumaun Himalaya, India/S.C. Sati and S. Usman. 5. An appraisal of the Himalayan inoperculates/M.P. Sharma. 6. Xylaria Hill : Schrank from eastern Himalaya/A.M. Narula and G.S. Rawla. 7. Morchella--the most interesting fungus among all the edible fungi/Yash Gupta. 8. Physiological studies on Agrocybe species/S.P. Abraham, L.N. Nair and T.N. Kaul. 9. Studies on Clavariaceae of Pithoragarh Hills/R.S. Adhikari. 10. Composting in Agaricus bisporus/Yash Gupta. V. Myco-biotechnology: 1. Production of pathogen free plants using tissue culture techniques/A. Sood and L.M.S. Palni. 2. Breeding approaches to production of disease resistant plants/S. Dwivedi, S. Singh and T.R. Sharma. 3. In vitro selection of cell lines for disease resistance/D.V. Rao and L.M.S. Palni. 4. My.

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Title: Microbial Activity in the Himalaya
Publisher: Shree Almora Book Depot
Publication Date: 1992
Language: English
ISBN 10: 8190020935
ISBN 13: 9788190020930
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