New Advances in Crop Disease Management

Sangita Sahni, Ganesh Thapa, Bishun Deo Prasad, Sangita Sahni, Ganesh Thapa, Bishun Deo Prasad

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781774916070
• eBook ISBN: 9781003828624
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Agriculture
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Crop protection is becoming increasingly important due to the need for food security and to meet growing environmental challenges. This new book, New Advances in Crop Disease Management, provides readers with an updated and comprehensive overview of diverse crop protection strategies with special emphasis on the recent advances in crop protection approaches, fundamental concepts, principles, methodology, relationships, and benefits for crop protection and human health.

It covers a variety of disciplines such as plant pathology, biochemistry, cell, and molecular biology, plant physiology, host-pathogen interactions, precision agriculture, decision analysis, disease risk, new ways of exploiting host genetic diversity including host resistance deployment, biological control and microbial interactions, surveillance and detection technologies, and the consequences of climate change and signaling.

The book contains twenty chapters and begins with the role of biotechnology and its implications in crop disease detection and protection. It then discusses the plant response to pathogen attack, molecular basis of host-pathogen interaction and induction of defense response, viz., R gene, phytoalexins, etc., and advancement in early detection methodologies. It also delves into induced mutation as new technology for resistant crop development.

The last part details the recent approaches and applications of resistant crop lines development, including resistant pulses development approaches, mining and mapping of R genes, gene pyramiding, lactic acid bacteria as biocontrol agents, effecteromics and nanotechnology in crop disease management, and the applications of phytochemicals and CRISPR-Cas in the development of disease resistant crops for future.

New Advances in Crop Disease Management will be a key reference in the field of crop science and plant pathology, agriculture for faculty and industry professionals as well as a valuable textbook/reference for undergraduate and graduate students.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• About the Editors
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• 1. Glimpses of Biotechnology in Crop Disease Management
• 2. Importance and Role of Biotechnological Tools in Plant Pathology: Basic Concepts and Principles to Study Host-Pathogen Relationship
• 3. Recent Advances in Early Detection of Plant Diseases Using Molecular Tools
• 4. Induction of Defense Responses: Pathogenesis-Related Proteins, HR, and Reactive
• 5. Advances in Molecular Basis of Host-Pathogen Interaction
• 6. Recent Advancement in Tissue Culture Techniques for Crop Disease Management
• 7. Biotechnological Approaches for Bacterial Disease Management in Solanaceous Vegetable Crops
• 8. Recent Advances in Development of Diagnostic Kits for Early Detection of Viral Diseases in Crop Plants
• 9. Development of Disease Resistant Crop Plants Through Induced Mutagenesis
• 10. Recent Advances in Developing Disease Resistance in Pulse Crops
• 11. Mining Resistance Genes for Disease Management
• 12. Molecular Mapping of Resistant Genes
• 13. Plant Disease Management Through Gene Pyramiding
• 14. Lactic Acid Bacteria as Biocontrol of Fusarium Head Blight
• 15. Recent Advancement in Nanotechnology for Crop Disease Management
• 16. Effectoromics in the Management of Crop Diseases
• 17. Phytochemicals: An Alternate Approach Toward Various Disease Management
• 18. Recent Advances in the Development of Disease-Resistant Plants Utilizing Genetic Engineering Approaches
• 19. Editing Genomes for Disease Resistance via CRISPR/Cas9 Holds Endless Opportunities
• 20. Robotics in Plant Diseases Diagnosis and Management
• Index