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Soil Health Management in Arecanut and Cocoa ¨ Soil Health Management in Coconut ¨ Soil Health Management in Cashew ¨ Soil Health Management in Cashew ¨ Soil Helath Management in Oil Palm ¨ Soil Health Management in Natural Rubber ¨ Soil Health Management in Spice Crops

The colorful book “Diseases, Pests and Disorders of Plantation Crops” provides current information on diseases, insect pests, disorders of six important plantation crops and their management. The diagnostic symptoms for identification and options of integrated management strategies for insects, diseases and nutritional disorders are discussed in detail. The book is easy to use and helps the users to match the symptoms of diseases, pests and disorders on plantation crops with the book’s color photographs and also provides recommendations to minimize crop losses.

The diseases that affect plantation crops reduce productivity and quality affecting growers profitability and domestic and international trade. The chapters in the book provides an up to date and detailed account of the diseases that affect arecanut, black pepper, cardamom, coconut, cocoa, coffee, ginger, tea, rubber, turmeric and vanilla. The detailed information on occurrence and distribution, economic impact, disease signs, causal agents, host-pathogen-environment interactions, pathogen survival and spread and disease progression of each disease is presented in this book. The emphasis has been given to adopt integrated disease management approaches involving cultural, crop management, host resistance, biological and chemical methods to reduce cost of production in sustainable manner. Colour photographs are included in each chapter for easy identification of disease. Molecular identification of exotic diseases that are a bio-security threat to Indian plantation industry have been included, where ever required for their avoidance and management. We hope that this compilation would serve as a valuable reference book for any one interested in disease management in plantation crops.

This book contains 15 chapters contributed by Indian scientists who are working on Phytophthora diseases. The first chapter gives the general introduction about the genus Phytophthora and various types disease symptoms and diagnostics in brief. The second and third chapters explain about the genotypic markers and genomics of Phytophthora. Chapters 4 explains about late blight of potato and its management. Chapters 5 to 12 are is the review of work done on Phytopthora diseases of vegetables, fruit crops, spices, plantation crops and tuber crops in India. Chapter 13 dealt on management of fungicidal resistance in Phytophthora. Prospects of biological control in management of Phytophthora diseases are covered in Chapter 14. The last chapter highlights regulatory strategies in combating exotic Phytophthora. Hope the book is useful for Phytophthora workers in India and plant pathology students in general to know the latest developments on Phytophthora diseases. I thank all the contributors who have provided the excellent reviews of the work done and the strategies to manage the Phytophthora.

Plant pathology has been playing a vilal role In accomplishing food security In view of declining natural resources like land, water and human resources coupled with climate changes, the science of plant pathology should play a dominant role to produce more with lessening resources. It is more advanced today than ever before with new developments in disease diagnosis, the discovery of new generation molecules with low enwonmental impact reliable biological control agents as well as the development of new disease resistant plant varieties This book provides an up to date knowledge on taxonomy of fungi, threats of invasive and emerging diseases, disease diagnostics, interaction of host and pathogens, induced host resistance, utilization of biological control agents tor practical applications and the underlying mechanisms. RNAi mediated gene silencing, strategies to Identify targets for new disease control with plant derived products and chemicals and special emphasis on bo-security for safeguarding agricultural production and trade This book is the most comprehensive resource of current knowledge and will be highly useful to academia or industry related to crop heallh management.