Sustainable Crop Disease Management Using Natural Products

Alternative methods of disease control such as natural products and compounds derived from biological origins, provide an effective alternate to the use of chemical products or a means to minimize their use. It is imperative now to look for such sustainable crop disease management approaches, that include routine and alternative methods. Natural products for sustainable crop disease management is an effort in this direction, and deals with immediate concerns in the field of natural and alternative products for disease control, apart from using biocontrol organisms. This book presents up-to-date information on natural products and compounds derived from biological origins and thoroughly discusses their applicability, field use and prospects for adoption under different cropping conditions. This book also validates disease management strategies.

Kurucheve Vadivel teaches at Annamali University, India.

Sangeetha Ganesan teaches at Annamalai University, India.

Jayaraj Jayaraman teaches at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.