Advances in Plant Disease Management

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the identification, detection, characterization, classification and management of plant pathogens and other beneficial microbes in agriculture. The science of plant pathology is a dynamic field and, given the growing interest in sustainable agricultural practices, plant disease management has also gained importance.

This volume is dedicated to dvances in forest management: enhance the sustainable development of human society, and should be focused on.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of arbuscular mycorrhizae. Chapters provide a better understanding of these fungi, their application and management, and their effects on different types of plants.

Advances in Rice Blast Research provides a complete overview of the research undertaken on the rice-blast pathosystem.

Blast is an important foliar disease that infects the majority of cereal crops like rice, finger millet, pearl millet, foxtail millet and wheat, and thus results in a huge economic impact. The pathogen is responsible for causing epidemics in many crops and commonly shifts to new hosts. Magnaporthe spp. is the most prominent cause of blast disease on a broad host range of grasses including rice as well as other species of Poaceae family. To date, 137 members of Poaceae hosting this fungus have been described in fungal databases.