Download or read book Crop Pests and Diseases written by Timothy Ajibola Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Directions for Biosciences Research in Agriculture written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored by an integrated committee of plant and animal scientists, this review of newer molecular genetic techniques and traditional research methods is presented as a compilation of high-reward opportunities for agricultural research. Directed to the Agricultural Research Service and the agricultural research community at large, the volume discusses biosciences research in genetic engineering, animal science, plant science, and plant diseases and insect pests. An optimal climate for productive research is discussed.

Download or read book Advisory Work in Crop Pest and Disease Management written by Josef Palti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advisory work, by its very nature, is an intermediary between the re search worker and those who apply the results of his research. The challenge of advisory work is to devise means of and find pathways for transmitting research results to the user, overcome the reluctance of the latter to change, and often combine novel ideas with well-estab lished traditions. Nowhere is this challenge greater than in farming. This is especially true in developing countries, where the gap in the educational level between research workers and farmers may be ex tremely wide. Moreover, village-level advisers are often overburdened with non-professional functions and are not sufficiently backed up by well-trained professional advisers. Thus, in many of these countries there is a serious discrepancy between the knowledge available and that needed and actually applied on the farm. Advisory work in crop protection is no exception, but profits to some extent from two facts: (1) because of the potentially catastrophic nature of pest attack, governments often operate a supervisory crop protection service, the staff of which may be able to dispense some pest control advice; and (2) the staff of pesticide distributors tends to fill, at least in part, the need for advice on how to fight pests and dis eases with chemicals.

Download or read book Pests Weeds and Diseases in Agricultural Crop and Animal Husbandry Production written by Dimitrios Kontogiannatos and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights some of the most recent research with respect to emerging pest challenges in agricultural crop and animal husbandry production: analytical methods for glyphosate detection in foods, biopesticides and essential oils, environmental safety in pest control, herbicide and glyphosate resistance, herbicides and weed management, integrated pest management, mass spectrometry for insect physiology studies, pheromones and chemical communication, pasteurellosis outbreaks, and tick identification and management.

Download or read book Pest and Disease Management Handbook written by David V. Alford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pest and Disease Management Handbook updates the 3rd edition of the Pest and Disease Control Handbook (1989). The structure of this important new book differs in several respects, acknowledging the advances that have been made in integrated crop management and the trends towards the more rational use of pesticides. Fully revised and up-to-date, the book commences with a new introductory chapter covering the principles of pest and disease management. Following chapters, each written by acknowledged experts in the field, cover a group of major temperate northern hemisphere crops. As well as comprehensive details of pest and disease management strategies, each chapter also includes a classification scheme for the cited pests and diseases. This important publication is a vital tool for all those involved in the crop protection / agrochemical industry including business managers, entomologists, agricultural scientists, plant pathologists and those studying and teaching BASIS courses. As an important reference guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying agricultural sciences, applied entomology and crop protection, copies of the book should be available on the shelves of all research establishments and universities where these subjects are studied and taught. Pest and Disease Management Handbook is published for the British Crop Protection Council (BCPC) by Blackwell Science. BCPC is a registered charity having the principal objective of promoting the development, use and understanding of effective and sustainable crop protection practice. Dr David V Alford, based in Cambridge, UK, is a member of the BCPC board, with many years' experience working as a government entomologist.

Download or read book Crop Diseases written by Darwin Henry and published by New India Publishing Agency. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plant diseases are among the important factors that are responsible for causing yield loss in crop production. The loss due to diseases alone is estimated to be around 26 per cent. Diseases may attack at any stage of the standing crop, from seedlings till maturity of the crop. They may affect different parts of the plants, such as foliage, stem, root, flowers or seed and cause various types of symptoms, while the diseases such as wilt affect the entire plant. All these ultimately result in the reduction of yield and poor quality of the produce. Further, many pathogens continue to attack the stored grains and stored produce, and cause spoilage. To save the crops from diseases caused by pathogens and thereby to increase crop production, it is imminent that diseases have to be controlled by any means. To adopt various strategies for the control of pathogens, one should have some basic knowledge about the symptoms produced by the pathogens, their life cycle, mode of survival and spread, and the stage at which the host is most vulnerable to attack by the pathogens. Most of the cultivated varieties of different crops are susceptible to one disease or another, while some others are susceptible to many diseases. Even resistant cultivars of some of the crop species may become susceptible to some specific diseases in course of time as a result of development of new physiologic races of the pathogen by hybridization or natural mutation or when the environmental conditions are highly favorable for the pathogen and not quite favorable for the host. In this book the authors have given a detailed account of the major diseases of important field crops and horticultural crops, and their management. The text is substantiated with many hand-drawn illustrations, which are of excellent quality and in fact it is the highlight of the book. A on important edible mushrooms commonly grown in India, methods of cultivation of different mushrooms, diseases and pests attacking mushroom beds and mushrooms is also included in the book. This may be quite useful to emerging entrepreneur The book, which has been compiled as per the undergraduate syllabus of agricultural institutions, will also be of use to postgraduate students and to those working in the department of agriculture.

Download or read book Crop Traits for Defense Against Pests and Disease Durability Breakdown and Future Prospects 2nd Edition written by Alison J. Karley and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With global populations expected to exceed 9.2 billion by 2050 and available land and water resources devoted to crop production dwindling, we face significant challenges to secure global food security. Only 12 plant species feed 80% of the world’s population, with just three crop species (wheat, rice and maize) accounting for food consumed by 50% of the global population. Annual losses to crop pests and pathogens are significant, thought to be equivalent to that required to feed a billion people, at a time when crop productivity has plateaued. With pesticide applications becoming increasingly unfeasible on cost, efficacy and environmental grounds, there is growing interest in exploiting plant resistance and tolerance traits for crop protection. Indeed, mankind has been selectively breeding plants for desirable traits for thousands of years. However, resistance and tolerance traits have not always been those most desired, and in many cases have been inadvertently lost during the domestication process: crops have been effectively ‘disarmed by domestication’. Moreover, mechanistic understanding of how resistance and tolerance traits operate is often incomplete, which makes identifying the right combination for crop protection difficult. We aimed to address this Research Topic by inviting authors to contribute their knowledge of appropriate resistance and tolerance traits, explore what is known about durability and breakdown of defensive traits and, finally, asking what are the prospects for exploiting these traits for crop protection. The research topic summarised in this book addresses some of the most important issues in the future sustainability of global crop production.

Download or read book Aphids as Crop Pests 2nd Edition written by Helmut F van Emden and published by CABI. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphids are among the major global pest groups, causing serious economic damage to many food and commodity crops in most parts of the world. This revision and update of the well-received first edition published ten years ago reflects the expansion of research in genomics, endosymbionts and semiochemicals, as well as the shift from control of aphids with insecticides to a more integrated approach imposed by increasing resistance in the aphids and government restrictions on pesticides. The book remains a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on the biology of aphids, the various methods of controlling them and the progress of integrated pest management as illustrated by ten case histories.

Download or read book Insect Pest And Disease Management written by Dwarika Prasad and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of late, frequent application and large scale use of pesticides for control of pests led to the endangerment of agro-ecosystem. Indiscriminate use of insecticides resulted in the destruction of parasitoids and predators of the pests and ultimately led to the resistance of pests to insecticides and insect resurgence. In the light of these problems, considerable research has been devoted to the elucidation of the toxic residues in/on consumable produce. Considering the seriousness insecticidal problems, there is an urgent need for developing effective economically viable and environmentally safe pest management system. Exploitation of bioagents, biogesticides, biointensive integrated pest management and need base use of pesticides have greater role and scope in overall insect pest and disease management. The publication this book is timely and appropriate for the plant protectionists. There are 41 thought provoking chapters on entomology, plant pathology, nematology and weed science written by the scientists who are experts in their subject. The book is an asset for the policy makers, administrators, teachers, research workers and students who may be referring the literature time to time. Contents Chapter 1: Adaptable IPM Technology for Vegetable Crops by H R Sardana and R K Tanwar; Chapter 2: Insect Pheromones in IPM: Problems and Prospects by H P Misra; Chapter 3: Role of Sex Pheromones in Management of Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) by Krishna Kant; Chapter 4: Integrated Approach for management of Major Insect-pests of Sugarcane by M K Gupta, A K Sarma and K M Singh; Chapter 5: Integrated Ecofriendly Management of Jute Pests by U S Yadav and S S Prasad; Chapter 6: Insect pest of Mungbean and Urbean and their Integrated Management by S K Singh and D K Yadav; Chapter 7: Status and Strategies on Management of Coconut Eriophyied Mite by C Muthiah; Chapter 8: Sustainable Management of Bud Fly, Dasyneura lini Barnes in Linseed by Y P Malik; Chapter 9: Ecofriendly Strategies for Management of Thrips palmi Karny as Pest and Vector by Anuj Bhatnagar; Chapter 10: Spiders: Bio-ecology and Conservation for Insect Pest Management by R K Tanwar, O M Bambawale and H R Sardana; Chapter 11: Impact of Thiamethoxam on Spiders in Sugarcane Ecosystem by C Vijayaraghavan and A Regupathyl; Chapter 12: Life Table and Biotic Potential of Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) on Chickpea by S K Singh and D K Yadav; Chapter 13: Insect Pathogens and Pest Management by R K Murali Baskaran, D S Rajavel and K Suresh; Chapter 14: Rice Disease and their Management through Biocontrol Agents by Ashraf Ali Khan and D Prasad; Chapter 15: Eco-friendly Approaches for Sclerotina Disease Management in Vegetable Crops by Ramesh Singh, Udit Narain and Alka; Chapter 16: Integrated Disease Management in Pulses by Jameel Akhtar, V B Nargund and Abdul Khalid; Chapter 17: Eco-friendly Approaches: Combat for Rice Disease by Ali Anwar, G N Bhat, K A Bhat, M Shahjahan Dar and F A Khan; Chapter 18: Active Oxygen in Plant Disease Control: Possible Role and Future Scope by Chinmay Biswas, S K Biswas and S S L Srivastava; Chapter 19: Sclerotinia Stem Rot of Mustard and its Management by Rajendra Prasad and Saroj Kumar; Chapter 20: Spot Blotch of wheat: Management Options with Special Reference to Biological Control by S K Biswas, Chinmay Biswas, Biswajit Bhowmik and S S L Srivastava; Chapter 21; Ecologically Sustainable Management of Sheath Blight Disease of Rice by Rajbir Singh, A P Sinha, Ashraf Ali Khan, G P Gangwar and D Prasad; Chapter 22: Integrated Disease Management on Mize by Shahid Ahamad; Chapter 23: Present Scenario of Management Strategies of Plant Viral Diseases by K K Biswas, Sumita Kumari and Avijit Tarafdar; Chapter 24: Bacterial Endophytes of Plants and their Uses in Agriculture by Biswajit Bhowmik, Tusar Kanti Bag and S K Biswas; Chapter 25: Major Diseases of Medicinal Plants by P K Gupta, N D Sharma and Yogita Gharde; Chapter 26: Ecofriendly Management of Late Blight Disease of Potato in the Plains of West Bengal by Amitava Basu; Chapter 27: Strategies to Combat Challenges for Management of Red Rot in Sugarcane by Vijai Singh, S N Srivastava, B B Joshi and S K Awasthi; Chapter 28: Eco-friendly Management of Insect Pests and Nematodes in Hill Horticultural Crops by R P Soundararajan and V Lakshmanan; Chapter 29: Entomopathogenic Nematodes: A Potential Biocontrol Agent by D Prasad; Chapter 30: Eco-friendly Management of Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Vegetable Crops by V K Singh; Chapter 31: Nematode Egg Parasitic Fungus, Pochonia chlamydosporia by I Cannayane and E I Jonathan; Chapter 32: Anti-nutritional Compounds in Pulses by Amit Kumar Jain, Sudhir Kumar, Om Prakash, and J D S Panwar; Chapter 33: Root-knot Nematode Problems in Nursery and Young Tea by B C Bora and P P Neog; Chapter 34: Ufra: A Nematode Disease in Deep Water Rice and its Management by Debanand Das and Bharot Ch Bora; Chapter 35: Biotechnological Approaches in IPM: Scope and Recent Development by N Emmanuel and Swaran Dhingra; Chapter 36: Management of Rats by S C Khanna; Chapter 37: Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria in Major Pests and Diseases Control by Amit Kumar Jain, Sudhir Kumar, Om Prakash Singh and J D S Panwar; Chapter 38: Present Situation of Crop Losses Caused by Plant Virus by K K Biswas; Chapter 39: Response of Rhizobium with Sulphur and Micronutrients on Seed Quality of Block Gram (Vigna mungo L Hepper) by Brijesh Kumar Rathi, Amit Kumar Jain, Sudhir Kumar and J D S Panwar; Chapter 40: Advances in Diagnosis and Management of Banana Bunchy Top Disease by Mohd Akram and Rajesh Kumar; Chapter 41: New Paradigms in Weed Management in India by Nisha K Chopra, Neelam Kumar Chopra, S N Sinha and Derhinder Chowdary

Download or read book Pests of Crops in Warmer Climates and Their Control written by Dennis S. Hill and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-16 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a textbook providing basic data about the crop pests and the damage they inflict throughout the tropics and sub-tropics. Each major pest is illustrated by either a line drawing or a photograph, and sometimes the damage can also be seen. A world distribution map is provided for each species. Control measures tend to be general rather than very specific. Most of the pests are insects and mites, but some nematodes, molluscs, birds and mammals are included.

Download or read book Pests and Diseases written by and published by . This book was released on 2026-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you got a plant problem and don't know how to fix it? This complete, practical guide has all the answers you need. Drawing on the expertise and authority of the RHS, RHS Pests and Diseases has been carefully conceived to help you make a correct diagnosis - and find the most effective cure. This brand new, updated edition includes helpful new entries detailing how to cope with the latest prevalent problems, and how to keep your garden healthy while respecting the environment. Look up possible ailments in the plant-by-plant listings; make a visual identification from the extensive gallery of symptoms; then follow detailed advice in the A-Z directory to remedy the issue. With a focus on growing for food and an emphasis on sustainable solutions, RHS Pests and Diseases will help your garden stay productive, attractive, and in the best of health while caring for the planet.

Download or read book Diseases Pests Of Fibre Crops written by Subrata Biswas and published by New India Publishing Agency. This book was released on 2019-07-27 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive knowledge on the diseases and pests of fibre crops, causing economic damage. It covers major disease and pest damages with the methods to combat them in fibre crop cultivations. The diseases and pests are described elaborately, giving emphasis on both morphological and molecular characteristics of pathogens and biology of different insect pests. The latest and most up-to-date knowledge on these aspects which acquired from diverse, complex, contemporary scientific discoveries in the field of fibre crop diseases and pests are compiled and presented in this book. This book is written in eight major chapters, each representing a certain type fibre crop, except for chapter 2 (two) which deals with both Mesta (kenaf) and Roselle for their similarities in disease and insect pest attacks. Each of the eight chapters is again subdivided into 2 or 3 (only for Chapter 2) subchapters to deal with different types of diseases and pests separately. This is a reference book in textbook format which intended to provide undergraduate, postgraduate and research personnel a means to acquire deeper knowledge on diseases and pests of nine major fibre crops, viz., cotton, jute, kenaf, roselle, sunnhemp , sisal, ramie, flax and hemp. Plant pathologists, entomologists and agricultural research scientists, and in academia, may find much of great use in this book.

Download or read book Coffee Pests Diseases and Their Management written by J. M. Waller and published by CABI. This book was released on 2007 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Price collapse and oversupply have made coffee a high-profile crop in recent years: never has efficient production and crop protection been more important for reducing costs and increasing quality. Packed with illustrations, this book covers the origins, botany, agroecology and worldwide production statistics of coffee, and the insect pests, plant pathogens, nematodes and nutrient deficiencies that afflict it. With emphasis on integrated crop management, this book reviews control measures suitable for any coffee pest or disease and will enable agriculturists to design and implement sustainable pest management systems.

Download or read book Climate Change and Agriculture Worldwide written by Emmanuel Torquebiau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, especially with the approach of the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in late 2015, the number of publications, conferences and meetings on climate change has been growing exponentially. Yet uncertainties remain concerning rural tropical areas where models are forecasting the onset of multiple disorders and trends are unclear. Meanwhile, the impact of climate change on the poorest communities is regularly documented, often prompting alarmist reactions. How can food security be achieved while adapting to and mitigating climate change? What are the main threats to agriculture in developing countries? How do farmers in these countries cope with the threats? What does agricultural research propose? What options have yet to be investigated? A broad scope of scientific research is underway to address these challenges. Diverse solutions are available, including new agricultural practices, water management, agricultural waste recycling, diagnosis of emerging diseases, payment for ecosystem services, etc. Gaining insight into the financial and political mechanisms that underlie international climate negotiations is also essential to design practical ways to deal with climate issues and meet sustainable development requirements in collaboration with farmers. This book pools the wealth of experience of dozens of researchers and development officers from a range of disciplines. We have focused on making it detailed, accurate and hopefully easy to read for researchers, students and all other informed readers.

Download or read book Pests and Diseases in Fruit Crops written by S. Parthasarathy and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides information about the major diseases of horticultural crops in India and discusses the significant pest, disease, and nematode issues affecting essential fruit crops in the country. It also addresses the management of pests in vegetable crops through several methods such as regulatory, physical, cultural, chemical, and biological approaches, host resistance, and integrated pest management strategies. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Download or read book Integrated Pest and Disease Management in Greenhouse Crops written by Ramon Albajes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), established in 1962, is an intergovernmental organization of 13 countries: Albania, Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey. Four institutes (Bari, Italy; Chania, Greece; Montpellier, France; and Zaragoza, Spain) provide postgraduate education at the Master of Science level. CIHEAM promotes research networks on Mediterranean agricultural priorities, supports the organization of specialized education in member countries, holds seminars and workshops bringing together technologists and scientists involved in Mediterranean agriculture and regularly produces diverse publications including the series Options Méditerranéennes. Through these activities, CIHEAM promotes North/South dialogue and international co-operation for agricultural development in the Mediterranean region. Over the past decade, the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza has developed a number of training and research-supporting activities in the field of agroecology and sustainability of agricultural production systems. Some of these activities have been concerned with the rational use of pesticides and more particularly with the implementation of integrated control systems in order to gain in efficacy and decrease both the environmental impact and the negative repercussions for the commercialization of agricultural products.

Download or read book Cultural Practices and Infectious Crop Diseases written by Josef Palti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of a crop, and therefore its health, is always the result of interplay between biological and environmental factors, as influenced by human agency. In other words, crop health is a highly complex affair. This book is concerned with only one group of agents affecting crop health, the pathogens, and not with animal pests or direct effects of physiological or weather factors. Even within this one group, however, the interaction of causal agents with environmental and biotic factors is highly complex. No less complex is the effect of cultural practices on the crop and its health. There is probably no major practice that does not affect diverse facets of crop growth, which in turn affects crop/pathogen relationships. Thus tillage se quentially affects depth and rate of root development, hence nutrient uptake, hence general plant size and habit as well as crop climate and crop susceptibility. Irri gation affects all these parameters, and facilitates crop growth under diverse macro climatic conditions, with all the ensuing implications for disease development. In this book an attempt is made to superimpose one set of complexities, the cul tural practices, on another such set, crop health. This may seem overambitious, not to say foolhardy, unless we remember that it has been done by farmers, consciously or unconsciously, ever since the beginnings of agriculture. We are here chiefly try ing to rationalize traditional practices, review modern research on the development of further practices, and assess the place of the latter in integrated disease control.