Pests and Pathogens : Management Strategies

Contents Foreword Preface 1 Insect Pests of Rice in India and their ManagementJS Bentur 2 Rice Diseases of Importance and the Management Options in IndiaCS Reddy 3 Biotechnological Approaches for Management of Grain Mold Disease of SorghumK Ulganathan 4 Major Biotic Stresses of Chickpea and Strategies for their ControlGurjar G Mishra M Kotkar H Upasani M Soni P Tamhane V Kadoo N Giri A and Gupta V 5 Potential of Transgenic Grain Legumes for Pest Management and Sustainable Crop ProductionH C Sharma MK Dhillon Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur KK Sharma and Mike Butterfield 6 Integrated Pest Management in Grain Legume Crops in IndiaGV Ranga Rao and V Rameshwar Rao 7 Insect Pests of Castor Ricinus communis L and their Management StrategiesM Sujatha PS Vimala Devi and TP Reddy 8 Biology and Management of Forest Insect PestsRW Alexander Jesudasan 9 Botanical Pesticides for Management of Insect Pests in Field and Stored RiceAnand Prakash Jagadiswari Rao and V Nandagopal 10 Botanicals for the Management of PhytonematodesArchana U Singh Vijendra Singh and D Prasad 11 Microbial Chitinases as Potential BiopesticidesAppa Rao Podile and Ch Neeraja 12 Insect Resistance to Pyrethroid with Special Reference to the Cotton BollwormAshraf O Abd El-Latif and B Subrahmanyam 13 Effect of Climate Change on Insects Pathogens Plants and Pesticide UsageB Vasantharaj David and G Shankar 14 Molecular Marker-assisted Breeding for Improving Disease Resistance in Crop PlantsBM Prasanna and Firoz Hossain 15 Antimicrobial Peptides and Production of Disease Resistant Transgenic PlantsRamadevi R Rao KV and Reddy VD 16 Plant Lectins and their Utilization for Development of Insect Resistant Transgenic Crop PlantsY Bharathi TP Reddy VD Reddy and KV Rao 17 Insect-Resistant Transgenic CropsB Kiran Kumar and P Ananda Kumar 18 Bioinformatics with Solutions in Pest Management Science An Insight into the Evolving TechnologiesUSN Murthy and Amit Kumar Banerjee 19 Concepts and Components of Integrated Pest ManagementP Nagaraja Rao and Asif TanweerThe need and demand to feed the ever-increasing global population pose major challenges for increasing crop productivity in eco-friendly manner Cultivation of crops under input-intensive conditions resulted in enhanced vulnerability of the high-yielding cultivars to a multitude of pests and pathogens at all phenological stages Disease spectrum and intensity are continuously changing because of the dynamic nature of crop systems pests and pathogens Thus disease management has become the major functional component of the crop production systems Topics Covered Insect PestsPathogens of Rice Sorghum Chickpea and Castor and their Management Molecular Marker-assisted Breeding and Transgenic Crops for Disease Management Management of Forest Insect Pests Effect of Climate Change on Insects Pathogens Plants and Pesticide usage Botanicals and Microbial Pesticides and Insect Resistance to Synthetic Pesticides Integrated Pest Management and Bioinformatic Solutions 590 pp.…