This book is exploring molecular insight of plant disease resistance, enhancing plant immunity as well as the latest omics or approaches in plant disease management. In the recent past, microbial strains or products frequently utilized to inhibit the growth of phytopathogen and disease management. However, it is well known that plants respond to numerous biotic and abiotic stresses by morphological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms. But still there is much more to study about their molecular aspect of interaction between host- pathogens- biocontrol agents that will be helpful in formulation and applications of microbial antagonistic for effective management of phytopathogens. This book attempt to fill this gap in the literature. This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, agronomist, horticulturalist scientists, capacity builders and policymakers. Also the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, microbiology, environment science.
About the Author: Dr. Kubilay Kurtulus Bastas, currently a full professor of plant pathology at Selcuk University, Turkey. Dr. Bastas, is a plant protection graduate from Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University. He earned his doctoral degrees in plant pathology-bacteriology from Selcuk Universities and earned a postdoctoral degree in molecular phytopathology from Warwick University, UK. During his 26 years as a faculty member, Dr. Bastas has received several awards and fellowships from national (TUBITAK, TMMOB, and YOK) and international (British Council and ERASMUS) foundations.
Dr. Ajay Kumar is a microbiologist, and his research area includes microbiome, postharvest management, microbial biocontrol, plant-microbe Interactions, Cyanobacteria research and endophytes. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research from Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India and Postdoc from Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani Center, Rishon Leziyon, Israel.
Prof. Sivakumar Uthandi is Professor of Agricultural Microbiology in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, India received doctorate degrees from TNAU and gained Post-Doctoral experience at University of Florida, USA. He has been visiting Associate Professor at the University of Florida, USA; and also visited Wageningen University, The Netherlands; BIC, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, and the University of Warwick, UK; AVRDC, Taiwan; and University of Jafna, Srilanka. He is now serving as Visiting Adjunct Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
