Nematode Diseases of Crops and their Sustainable Management focuses on methods to recognize and identify nematode attackers in agriculturally important crops, offering ecologically sustainable and economically viable strategies and measures for the management of nematode infestations and diseases. The book analyzes nematode pests as major constraints in global crop production and explores the limitations of existing nematode management technologies. It offers comprehensive information through individually focused chapters on major nematode problems in internationally important food, fiber and beverage crops as well as in mushrooms, polyhouse agriculture and forest flora with regard to distribution, and much more.
In view of the highly damaging nature of the disease complexes and complexity in their management, independent chapters on nematode-fungus and nematode-bacteria disease complexes and their management are also presented.
1. Plant nematode, hidden constraints in the global crop production 2. Nematode disease diagnosis, conventional and novel methods 3. Sustainable nematode management in crops, limitations and challenges 4. Conventional and innovative cultural methods of nematode management 5. Host resistance and transgenic plant for nematode management 6. Biological control strategies for nematode control 7. Botanicals and organic methods for nematode management 8. Integrated nematode management, an effective approach to achieve sustainable nematode management 9. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in wheat and barley 10. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in rice 11. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in maize 12. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in pulse crops 13. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in vegetable legumes 14. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in tomato, okra and other common vegetables 15. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in tuber crops 16. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in cucurbits 17. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in bulb crops 18. Nematode problems and their sustainable management oil seed crops 19. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in tropical fruits 20. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in temperate fruits 21. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in palms 22. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in spices 23. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in tea and coffee 24. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in cotton 25. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in tobacco 26. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in ornamental plants 27. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in medicinal plants 28. Nematode-fungus disease complexes and their sustainable management 29. Nematode-bacteria disease complexes and their sustainable management 30. Nematode diseases transmitted by insects and their management 31. Nematode transmitting plant viral diseases and their management 32. Nematode problems in polyhouse cultivation and their sustainable management in ornamental and vegetable crops 33. Nematode problems in mushrooms and their sustainable 34. Nematode problems and their sustainable management in forests
Dr. Mujeebur Rahman Khan, Professor, Department of Plant Protection, Aligarh Muslim University is presently also Dean, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. He obtained Ph.D. Botany (Plant Pathology & Nematology) with Post Doc work at North Carolina State University, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and at the Commonwealth Institute of Parasitology, London. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and has served the Indian Phytopathological Society as a Zonal President. He has over 350 research publications on plant pathology/ Nematology and has authored and edited multiple books on Nematology and disease management in agricultural crops. He has presented at over 50 national and international conferences. His research focuses are chemical control, biological control and integrated management of plant diseases; effect of environmental contamination and climatic change on disease development; industrial waste utilization in crop protection; and green synthesis of nanoparticles and their application in plant protection. Dr. Marisol Quintanilla is an Applied Nematologist at Michigan State University. Marisol grew up in a family farm in Chile and received her master’s and doctoral degrees at MSU.