Overview
- Elaborates the use of biotechnological approaches in plant protection
- Contributions from experts in plant diseases control and management
- Special focus on bacterial and fungal pathogens affecting crop plants
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This edited volume is a comprehensive account of plant diseases and insect pests, plant protection and management for various crops using microbial and biotechnological approaches. The book elucidates the role of biotechnology for the enhancement of crop productivity and management of bacterial and fungal diseases via eco-friendly methods. It discusses crop–pest⁄ pathogen interaction and utilizing this interaction in a beneficial and sustainable way. This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, plant scientists and plant pathologists. Also the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, forestry, ecology, soil science, and environmental sciences.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Manoj Kaushal, Ph.D. is a Systems Scientist with nearly a decade of teaching and research experience at various national and international institutes. Currently he is working with International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and has associated with CGIAR consortium from more than six years. His research interests include cropping systems, tropical and semi-arid small holder agriculture, microbiome, and agroecologies tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Moreover, he has authored more than 50 research papers in peer reviewed journals, and book chapters.
Ram Prasad, Ph.D. is associated with Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India. His research interests: environmental microbiology, plant-microbe-interactions, sustainable agriculture and nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has more than one hundred seventy-five publications to his credit, including research papers, articles & book chapters and five patents issued or pending, and edited or authored several books. Previously, Dr. Prasad served as Assistant Professor Amity University, India; Visiting Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, United States and Research Associate Professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Microbial Biotechnology in Crop Protection
Editors: Manoj Kaushal, Ram Prasad
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0049-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0048-7Published: 30 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0051-7Published: 31 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-0049-4Published: 29 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 449
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Pathology, Plant Physiology, Plant Sciences