Handbook of Plant Disease Identification and Management presents the fundamentals of plant diseases identification based on symptomology and management focusing mainly on integrated pest management approach. It discusses a variety of techniques for the diagnosis of crop disease, losses due to crop diseases, and theories behind disease management. It describes how society is constraining the possibilities for management of crop diseases by changing the environment; biologically controlling crop diseases; and the epidemiologic and genetic concepts of managing host genes. This book discusses managing diseases through diverse chemical, biological, and physical methods. It highlights climatic factors affecting crops by creating favorable condition for most of the diseases. This book serves as a complete guide for growers, researchers, and graduate students to understand basics of plant disease identification. It explains the disease cycle for respective crops with favorable conditions promoting disease development. It intends to aid growers in managing diseases and help scientists with future research.

This book provides practical, up-to-date information that helps in the successful management of diseases on food, fibre and landscape plants for students who do not have a strong background in the biological sciences. It is largely revised to reflect the recent problems in conventional agriculture with an environmental emphasis and to include the latest techniques in biotechnology and genetic engineering.

The book fully conforms to the syllabus of the ICAR Fifth Dean's Committee Report prescribed for the undergraduate degree programme [B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture]. It covers symptoms, etiology, disease cycle and epidemiology, and management of major diseases of Field Crops, such as Wheat, Sugarcane, Sunflower, Mustard, Chickpea, Lentil, Cotton, Pea, and Horticultural Crops, such as Mango, Citrus, Grapevine, Apple, Peach, Strawberry, Potato, Cucurbits, Onion and Garlic, Chillies, Turmeric, Coriander, Marigold and Rose. The list of additional important diseases from the aforementioned crops has been given in the book. Convincing tables and high-quality photographs furnished at appropriate places make concepts easy for students to comprehend. The book also contains objective-type questions like Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and Match the Following type of questions to enhance the understanding of the subject which will further help students to practice for the ICAR-JRF exam. However, these questions will also be useful for other competitive examinations such as ICAR-SRF, ICAR-NET, IARI, UPSC and Entrance exam for PG course. Besides undergraduate students, this book will also serve as a ready-to-use teaching material for teachers and a basic guide for researchers, plant protection specialists, extension workers and agriculture or horticulture officers, and growers. KEY FEATURES • Thorough coverage as per the syllabus needs • Lucid explanation for easy comprehension • Illustration and photographs for clear understanding • Question bank for practice TARGET AUDIENCE • B.Sc. (Hons) Agricultural Sciences. • Competitive exams: ICAR-JRF, ICAR-SRF, ICAR-NET, IARI and so on. • Ready reference for teachers, researchers and plant protection scientists.

The book fully conforms to the syllabus of the ICAR Fifth Dean's Committee Report prescribed for the undergraduate degree programme [B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture]. The book covers symptoms, etiology, disease cycle and epidemiology, and management of major diseases of Field Crops, such as Rice, Maize, Sorghum, Bajra, Groundnut, Soybean, Pigeon pea, Finger millet, Black gram and Green gram, Castor, Tobacco and Horticultural Crops, such as Guava, Banana, Papaya, Pomegranate, Cruciferous vegetables, Brinjal, Tomato, Okra, Beans, Ginger, Colocasia, Coconut, Tea, and Coffee. The list of additional important diseases from the aforementioned crops has been given in the book. Convincing tables and high-quality photographs furnished at appropriate places make concepts easy for students to comprehend. The book also contains objective type questions like Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and Match the Following type of questions to enhance the understanding of the subject which will further help students to practice for the ICAR-JRF exam. However, these questions will also be useful for other competitive examinations such as ICAR-SRF, ICAR-NET, IARI, UPSC and Entrance exam for PG course. Besides undergraduate students, this book will also serve as a ready-to-use teaching material for teachers and a basic guide for researchers, plant protection specialists, extension workers and agriculture or horticulture officers, and growers. KEY FEATURES • Thorough coverage as per the syllabus needs • Lucid explanation for easy comprehension • Illustration and photographs for clear understanding • Question bank for practice TARGET AUDIENCE • B.Sc. (Hons) Agricultural Sciences • Competitive exams: ICAR-JRF, ICAR-SRF, ICAR-NET, IARI and so on. • Ready reference for teachers, researchers and plant protection scientists.

New ways to improve cereal crops against fungal, bacterial, and viral diseases are covered in this book that was put together by a group of experts. These include genetics, genome editing systems, and nano-biotechnological tools. Cereal crops are mainly the world's leading food crops and feed a large share of the world population. However, external factors, such as pathogens, have often threatened their productivity. Like wheat, rice, maize, oats, barley, millet and storage, etiology, epidemiology, and diseases in cereal crop management. In addition, the importance of crop genetics and genomics in combating pathogens has been discussed. This book offers up-to-date information on new methods, such as the potential of the genome editing system for crop improvement, in particular the CRISPR-Cas system. The current volume also talks about identification, plant breeding, genome editing, and nanotechnology tools that can be used to fight disease in cereal crops. This book is good for students, teachers, and researchers who study biotic stress in cereals, as well as scientists who study nanotechnology, disease resistance, pathogen biology, genome editing, agriculture sciences, and future biotechnology.

Vegetable Diseases focuses primarily on diseases that are caused by pathogens. Chapters dealing with the general principles of the causes, diagnosis and control of vegetable crop diseases are followed by crop-based chapters. Each disease entry includes a brief introduction to the disease, detailed description of disease symptoms, information on the pathogen and disease development, and suggestions on how to manage the problem. Top quality color photos illustrate the book throughout. This book will be useful to a range of professionals including research and extension plant pathologists; diagnosticians and plant lab personnel; teachers of agriculture and related subjects; university students in agriculture and related fields; commercial farmers, vegetable producers, and farm managers; agriculturalists in the fields of seed production, vegetable breeding, agrichemicals, pest control, marketing, and other subjects; government and regulatory persons dealing with agriculture; serious gardeners and hobbyists. Crop based organisation for easy diagnosis High quality color photos 444 color illustrations, 5 tables

Plant diseases often are the worst natural hazards in agriculture, horticulture and forestry. New diseases and new biotypes of existing disease producing organisms appear from time to time in more virulent forms. The most startling aspect of plant diseases is that their management cost us a huge sum every year with serious consequences in environment and human health. Therefore, integrated disease management practices need to be refined and adopted to reduce the crop losses. In this book, the current status of various aspects of integrated disease management in fruits, vegetable, ornamentals, cereals, pulses, oilseeds, medicinal and forest plants etc. has been analyzed. Major focus is on the integrated disease management in horticultural crops. Emphasis has been given to the use of non-chemical methods like cultural practices, soil solarization, plant growth promoting microorganisms, organic amendments, botanicals and biocontrol agents. It is hoped that the book will serve as an important guide to the plant pathologists, horticulturists, nematologists, microbiologists, mushroom scientists, breeders and students.

Attaining sustainable agricultural production while preserving environmental quality, agro-ecosystem functions and biodiversity represents a major challenge for current agricultural practices; further, the traditional use of chemical inputs (fertilizers, pesticides, nutrients etc.) poses serious threats to crop productivity, soil fertility and the nutritional value of farm produce. Given these risks, managing pests and diseases, maintaining agro-ecosystem health, and avoiding health issues for humans and animals have now become key priorities. The use of PGPR as biofertilizers, plant growth promoters, biopesticides, and soil and plant health managers has attracted considerable attention among researchers, agriculturists, farmers, policymakers and consumers alike. Using PGPR as bioinoculants can help meet the expected demand for global agricultural productivity to feed the world’s booming population, which is predicted to reach roughly 9 billion by 2050. However, to provide effective bioinoculants, PGPR strains must be safe for the environment, offer considerable plant growth promotion and biocontrol potential, be compatible with useful soil rhizobacteria, and be able to withstand various biotic and abiotic stresses. Accordingly, the book also highlights the need for better strains of PGPR to complement increasing agro-productivity.

In recent years, falsification and digital modification of video clips, images, as well as textual contents have become widespread and numerous, especially when deepfake technologies are adopted in many sources. Due to adopted deepfake techniques, a lot of content currently cannot be recognized from its original sources. As a result, the field of study previously devoted to general multimedia forensics has been revived. The Handbook of Research on Advanced Practical Approaches to Deepfake Detection and Applications discusses the recent techniques and applications of illustration, generation, and detection of deepfake content in multimedia. It introduces the techniques and gives an overview of deepfake applications, types of deepfakes, the algorithms and applications used in deepfakes, recent challenges and problems, and practical applications to identify, generate, and detect deepfakes. Covering topics such as anomaly detection, intrusion detection, and security enhancement, this major reference work is a comprehensive resource for cyber security specialists, government officials, law enforcement, business leaders, students and faculty of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.