Academic Press Nematode Diseases of Crops and Their Sustainable Management

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. Review Helps users achieve crop plant protection against nematodes using authoritative insights From the Back Cover <p><i>Nematode Diseases of Crops and their Sustainable Management</i> fills a void in reference content focused on this highly damaging and economically impactful challenge. Focusing on in-depth information on the synergistic interaction of nematodes with other plant pathogens, it provides important insight for practical application and may well inspire additional research advancement.</p> <i> <p>Nematode Diseases of Crops and their Sustainable Management</p></i><p> focuses upon the methods to recognize and identify nematode attackers in agriculturally important crops and offers ecologically sustainable and economically viable strategies and measures for the management of nematode infestations and diseases. </p> <p>Nematodes are hidden pests of crops. These soil-inhabiting tiny worms generally attack and damage the underground parts of the plant leading to slow but significant suppression of plant growth and yield. Because of the underground damage and absence of specific symptoms, the nematode damage is confused with nutrition deficiency, and any disease control measure is not taken by the growers. </p> <b> <p>Key Features</p> <ul></ul></b> <p> <li>Multidisciplinary crossover with Entomology</li> <p> <li>HCI Sustainability</li> <p> <li>Primary DV Agriculture with emphasis on Agricultural SOIL</li> <p> <li>Secondary DV of Food Security a GROW area, based on improved crop yield resulting from crop protection</li><ul> </ul></p></p></p></p> About the Author 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.