Plant Protection in New Millennium

Plant lovers, food producers, planners all voice together to protect the plants from insects and diseases. Damages to the plants by insects are easily felt but not realized are the losses caused by microorganisms. The Book "Plant Protection in New Millennium" in two volumes takes the stock of present state of art in Plant Protection, but does not primarily aim to describe pests and diseases of individual crop(s). Authors from National Laboratories and centres of excellence in the Universities mastering the subjects illustrate and review the progress, application of know how in plant protection besides up dates readers with the latest paradigm shift in plant protection taking into account art of genetics, biotechnology, bioagents, epidemiology and also detection for overcoming ill effects of pesticides. Also discussed are international trade related issues for import and export of plants as well as bio-safety concern related to GMOs. The book caters the need of knowledge hungry general biologists, agriculture ministries and planners and specialists in plant protection not only the students, teachers, researchers, but all well wishers of farmers.