Emerging Trends in Plant Pathology

Dr. Krishna P. Singh is a Professor at the Department of Plant Pathology, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. He graduated from Gorakhpur University and holds Master’s & Doctoral degrees in Mycology & Plant Pathology from Banaras Hindu University, India. He was awarded UGC and CSIR fellowships. He has been a member of the editorial board of Applied Microbiology (UK), Plant Disease Research, IJPP and Indian Phytopathology. He is also a fellow of IPS, ISMPP and the International College of Nutrition (FICN). He specializes in plant disease epidemiology and forecasting and has published 73 research papers in national and international journals.Dr. Birinchi Kumar Sarma is a Professor at the Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. A specialist in legume pathology and genomics, he completed his post-doctoral research at the University of California, Davis, USA. He was a Visiting Researcher at Dalhousie University, Canada, under the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute - FTI Award. He was also made an Associate of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi. He has published over 85 research papers, edited 3 books and filed 5 patents. He also serves as an editor for the international journals PLOS ONE and Frontiers in Microbiology. Dr. Shamarao Jahagirdar is a Professor at the Department of Plant Pathology, UAS, Dharwad, India. A specialist in host plant resistance and biological control of crop diseases, he graduated from UAS, Dharwad, and holds Master’s & Doctoral degrees from UAS, Bengaluru. He received an ICAR JRF and SRF from the Government of Karnataka, as well as four international fellowship awards from the governments of Korea, Israel and the Netherlands. He is a Fellow of the Indian Phytopathological Society, International Benevolent Research Forum and Society for Advancementof Biodiversity Science. He has published 150 papers in national and international journals.

• Chapter 1. Emerging plant diseases: Research status and challenges.- Chapter 2. Emerging plant diseases under changing climate scenario.- Chapter 3. Emerging important nematode problems in field crops and their management.- Chapter 4. Modern tools for detection and diagnosis of plant pathogens.- Chapter 5. Plant virus diagnostics: Traditional to recent and emerging approaches.- Chapter 6. Epidemiology and management of Potato Virus Y.- Chapter 7. Major fungal french bean diseases: Epidemiology and management.- Chapter 8. White fly transmitted plant viruses and their management.- Chapter 9. Recent advances in management of bacterial diseases of crops.- Chapter 10. Resistance breeding and exploitation of wild relatives for new resistance sources.- Chapter 11. New generation fungicides for sustainable production and disease suppression.- Chapter 12. Toxicity of organophosphate pesticide on soil microorganism; Risk assessments strategies.- Chapter 13. “CuChi-Tri”, a new generation combination for knowledge- based management of oomycetes pathogen, Phytophthora infestans.- Chapter 14. Seaweed and Associated Products: Natural biostimulant for improvement of plant health.- Chapter 15. Secondary metabolites from microbes for plant disease management.- Chapter 16. Beneficial root microbiota: Transmogrifiers of secondary metabolism in plants.- Chapter 17. Microbial consortia for plant disease management and sustainable productivity.- Chapter 18. Microbial biofilm: Formation, quorum sensing and its applications in plant disease management.- Chapter 19. Role of endophytes in plant disease management.- Chapter 20. Bioprospecting of diseases of horticultural crops in India.- Chapter 21. Transgenerational plant immunity in plant disease management.- Chapter 22. Concept of effectors and receptors in improving plant immunity.- Chapter 23. Transgenic technology for the disease resistance in crop plants.- Chapter 24. RNAi technology in management of crop diseases.- Chapter 25. Genome editing for plant disease resistance.- Chapter 26. Green nanotechnology and its applications in plant disease management.- Chapter 27. Plant disease management in organic farming system: strategies and challenges.- Chapter 28. Organic agriculture for plant disease management.- Chapter 29. Pest risk analysis and plant quarantine regulations.- Chapter 30. Remote sensing technology and its applications in plant pathology.- Chapter 31. Decision making tools for integrated disease management.- Chapter 32. Bioinformatics in plant pathology.