Plant diseases cause serious threats to the successful cultivation of horticultural crops resulting in huge losses in their yields. These plant diseases are known to affect horticultural crops at various growth stages and reduce the yield as well as quality of fruits and vegetables. Diseases also cause subsequent postharvest transit and storage losses. The volumes in this 4-volume set, Diseases of Horticultural Crops: Diagnosis and Management, provide the latest diagnostic information along with effective management solutions to the problems of field crop plants caused by phytopathogens.
The volumes provide an abundance of information for understanding and managing plant diseases, with emphasis on diagnostic techniques. The collection includes four volumes that cover:
- Volume 1: Important fruit crops'
- Volume 2: Vegetable crops'
- Volume 3: Ornamental plants and spice crops'
- Volume 4: Important plantation crops, medicinal crops, and mushrooms.
The destructive potential of plant diseases in modern day agriculture has increased due to the use of cultivars having a narrow genetic base over huge areas. Knowledge of perpetuation and spread of the pathogens and various factors affecting disease development is necessary for practical management. Disease diagnosis is the prime requirement for recommending preventive or curative measures for effective disease management. These volumes provide the information on the diagnostic tools necessary and management techniques for the various crop types. The chapters cover key diseases, typical symptoms, and management strategies. The volumes also include photographs that show symptoms of important diseases, which are helpful in disease diagnosis. This 4-volume set will be valuable to scientists and researchers, faculty and students, administrators, and many others in the discipline of plant pathology and related agriculture and allied fields.
About the Author: J. N. Srivastava, PhD, is currently Associate Professor cum Senior Scientist (Plant Pathology) at Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India. Formerly, he was Assistant Professor/Jr. Scientist (Plant Pathology) at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He has acted as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator for several projects on biological control/ integrated disease management. In addition to teaching and research, he is also engaged in various agriculture extension activities, such as farm advisory services, including video conferencing, radio and TV talks, vocational training for the rural youth skill, entrepreneurship development programs, farmer training, in-service training, etc. Dr. Srivastava has published many research papers in both Indian and international journals, book chapters, extension articles, practical and technical bulletins, and leaflets. He was the recipient of many awards for achievement and teaching, including an Excellence in Teaching Award (2017), Excellence in Science Communication Award (2017), Distinguished Faculty Award (2017), Eminent Scientist Award (2018), etc. He is a member of many academic and scientific organizations and is associated with many international, national, and provincial scientific, cultural, and academic/educational bodies, while also serving as an editorial board member of the International Journal of Plant Protection. He is also a reviewer for various scientific journals.
A. K. Singh, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Plant Pathology at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He has been engaged for more than 12 years in teaching (both undergraduate and postgraduate levels) and research and also involved in the transfer of technology through different extension activities. He has published more than 30 research papers in national and international journals of repute, one practical manual, and several book chapters and popular articles and has presented many research papers at international, national and regional symposiums and seminars. He is a recipient of several prestigious awards for his research contributions. Also he served as a member of the editorial board of Krishi Vikas Patrika, published by the Directorate of Extension, SKUAST of Jammu. He is a member of several societies of plant pathologists in India.
