Major Diseases of Field & Horticultural Crops and Their Management

Book 1

Editors: Kajal Kumar Biswas, Tusar Kanti Bag, Mehraj Ul Din Shah, Nirmal Mazumder, Lakshman Prasad, Deeba Kamil, Malkhan Singh Gurjar, Popy Bora, Jagmohan Singh Dhillon, Sunita Mahapatra, Rasappa Viswanathan
Year:2025
Price :1295.00
ISBN:978-93-94678-91-0

About the Book

This book, Major Diseases of Field & Horticultural Crops and Their Management, has been meticulously curated to address this critical need. It encompasses a broad spectrum of plant diseases, detailing their etiology, epidemiology, and the latest advancements in their management. The content is organized in various crops wise viz., cereal crops, field & cash crops, oilseed crops, pulse crops, fruit, vegetable, flowers and other diseases caused by other than bacteria. Each chapter is designed to provide in-depth knowledge of specific diseases and their management. The cereal crops covers diseases of rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, bajra and finger millets; the field and cash crops cover sugarcane, cotton, tea & coffee, and tobacco; the oilseed crops cover mustard, groundnut, soybean, sunflower and castor, the pulse crops include pigeonpea, greengram & blackgram and gram; Fruits crops cover mango, citrus, grapevine, apple, peach & strawberry, guava and pomegranate, banana, papaya, coconut; vegetable crops covers potato, cucurbits, tomato, cruciferous vegetables, brinjal, okra & ginger, colocasia, chilli, onion & garlic and turmeric and coriander. Flowering diseases of marigold and rose and their management have also been dealt. Apart from these, nematode diseases in cucurbitaceous and solanaceous vegetables, and diseases caused by other than bacteria and their management have also been covered. This book has been written for Under Graduate students and teachers of Agriculture, Horticulture, Botany, Plant Protection, Microbiology and subjects of Plant Health Management in Indian Universities and Institutes. Attempt has been made in understanding the nature of plant pathogens, concepts of disease development as well as elucidate the methods of preventing and managing plant diseases.

Contents

 

CEREAL CROPS

 

1.

Diseases of Rice and Their Management - Daisy Senapoty, Bholanath Mondal, Swagata Thakur, Pranjal Kumar Kaman, Hiranya Kumar Deva Nath, Rajkumari, B. Bhaskar, Bishnu Maya Bashyal, Amoghavarsha Chittaragi, Amrita Banerjee and M. Srinivas Prasad

1-36

2.

Diseases of Wheat and Their Management - Deepshikha, P.S. Shekhawat, Malkhan Singh Gurjar, Geeta Sharma, Shilpi Rawat, Poulami Basak, Natasha Kashyap, G. Prakash, P. Nallathambi and M.S. Saharan

37-61

3.

Diseases of Maize and Their Management - Sumit Kumar Aggarwal, Pooja Goyal, Bahadur Singh Jat, Laxman Singh Rajput, Sahil Mehta, Prem Lal Kashyap, Mukesh K. Khokhar, Malkhan Singh Gurjar, Prateek Madhab Bhattacharya and Hanuman Sahay Jat

62-83

4.

Diseases of Sorghum and Their Management - Satyajit Hembram, L. Gnanasing Jesumaharaja, P. Ahila Devi, Jagmohan Singh Dhillon, N. Balram and Apurba Kumar Chowdhury

84-97

5.

Diseases of Bajra & Finger Millet and Their Management - Adesh Kumar, Jagmohan Singh Dhillon, L.N.K. Singh, Popy Bora, Deeba Kamil and Satya Prakash

98-108

 

FIELD AND CASH CROPS

 

6.

Diseases of Sugarcane and Their Management - Smriti Mall, Apoorva Srivastava, Ragini Vishwakarma and Deeksha Joshi

109-128

7.

Diseases of Cotton and Their Management - Rupesh Kumar Arora, Pradeep Kumar, S.K. Sain, Preeti Vashisht, Prahlad Poonia, Srujani Behera, S. Palchoudhury, Utpal Kumar Bhattacharyya, Marimuthu Elangovan and Kajal Kumar Biswas

129-148

8.

Diseases of Jute & Allied Fibres Crops and Their Management - Surja Kumar Sarkar, Nirmal Mazumder, Surajit Khalko and Ayon Roy

149-148

9.

Diseases of Tea & Coffee and Their Management - Pranab Dutta, Madhusmita Mahanta, Lydia Vanlaltani, L. Rajendran, M. Paramasivan, D. Durgadevi, K. Saravanakumari, S. Sharnika and T. Archana

149-183

10.

Diseases of Tobacco & Castor and Their Management - Shamarao Jahagirdar, M.R. Ravikumar, K. Dinesh, S.A. Ashtaputre and Y.M. Rojasara

184-195

 

OILSEED CROPS

 

11.

Diseases of Mustard and Their Management - Nitish Rattan Bhardwaj, Prashant Yadav, Pankaj Sharma, Lakshman Prasad, B.L. Meena, P.K. Rai, A.L. Yadav, R.P. Ghasolia, C. Uma Maheswari and Sunita Mahapatra

196-209

12.

Diseases of Groundnut and Their Management - K. Viswanath, P. Nagamani, Chandrani Choudhuri, Shumaila Shahid and Md. Ali Azgar

210-217

13.

Diseases of Soybean and Their Management - Laxman Singh Rajput, Sanjeev Kumar, Sumit Kumar Aggarwal, Kartar Singh, Dama Ram, Bijaya Devi, K.S. Jadon and P.P. Thirumalaisamy

218-233

14.

Diseases of Sunflower and Their Management - Amar Bahadur, Mohan Kumar Biswas and Dinesh Singh

234-242

 

PULSE CROPS

 

15.

Diseases of Pigeonpea and Their Management - Sahar Murmu, Bharat Raj Meena, Anik Majumdar, Durga Prasad Awasti, Sujit Kumar Roy and Birendra Nath Panja

243-251

16.

Diseases of Greengram & Blackgram and Their Management - Bharat Raj Meena, Sahar Murmu, Ankita Roy, Rishu Sharma, Srikanta Das, Jameel Akhtar, Tusar Kanti Bag and Kajal Kumar Biswas

252-264

17.

Diseases of Gram and Their Management - Sahar Murmu, Ankita Sarkar, Dama Dolma Bhutia, Bharat Raj Meena, Raju Das, Nitika Gupta, Tusar Kanti Bag and Jayanta Tarafdar

265-273

 

FRUIT CROPS

 

18.

Diseases of Mango and Their Management - B. Vidyasagar, E. Rajeswari, Manjunath Hubballi, Anjali V.A., Ramesh, Jyothsna M.K., Priyanka Choudhary, Srujani Behera and Dilip Kumar Misra

274-290

19.

Diseases of Citrus and Their Management - P. Raja, N. Surmina Devi, R.C. Shakywar, Halima Khatoon, U.K. Bhattacharyya, Shaivya Singh, Lalit Patil and Kajal Kumar Biswas

291-309

20.

Diseases of Grapevine and Their Management - Imrana Tak, Sehla Khursheed, Sana Surma, Bilal A. Padder, Mehraj Ul Din Shah, Susheel Kumar Sharma and Shamarao Jahagirdar

310-324

21.

Diseases of Apple and Their Management - Efath Shahnaz, Sana B. Surma, Mehraj Ul Din Shah, Sehla Khursheed, Santosh Watpade, Dinesh Kumar, Shalini Verma, Shaivya Singh, Neelam Kumari, Saba Banday and Asha Nabi

325-350

22.

Diseases of Peach & Strawberry and Their Management - Efath Shahnaz, Sana B. Surma, Mehraj Ul Din Shah, Sehla Khursheed and Asha Nabi

351-357

23.

Diseases of Pomegranate, Guava & Underutilized Subtropical Fruits and Their Management - K. Dinesh, Shamarao Jahagirdar, M.R. Ravikumar, K. Sushma, Amit Kumar Singh, Amrita Das, Sujoy Saha and Anup Kumar Bhattacharjee

358-369

24.

Diseases of Banana and Their Management - Santosh Kumar, Akshaya S.B., K. Dinesh, Shamarao Jahagirdar, M.R. Ravi Kumar, Maumita Panda and Gurudatt M. Hegde

370-382

25.

Diseases of Papaya and Their Management - Sangeetha C.G., Manjunatha Reddy T. B., Mehulee Sarkar, Parveen Khan, Poly Saha and Savarni Tripathi

383-389

26.

Diseases of Coconut and Their Management - Vinayaka Hegde, Raghunath Mandal, N. Mazumder and Sunita Mahapatra

390-397

 

VEGETABLE CROPS

 

27.

Diseases of Potato and Their Management - L. Rajendran, S. Sharnika, T. Archana, K. Saravanakumari, D. Durgadevi, V. Senthilvel, Ravinder Kumar, G. Karthikeyan, Nandita Sahana and Ashis Chakraborty

398-412

28.

Diseases of Cucurbits and Their Management - S. Mukhopadhyay, K. Kundu, A. Kumar, U. Sarkar, Soumen Pati, P. Adhikary, Susmita Pati, S. Jash, S.K. Ray, A. Roy Barman, Anamika Debnath, Bholanath Mondal and Subrata Dutta

413-436

29.

Diseases of Tomato and Their Management - Rajender Jatoth, Lokesh Babu, Bharathi V., Venkatram A., Priyadarshini G., Jayanta Tarafdar, Nandita Sahana, Vinesh Banoth and Anirban Roy

437-453

30.

Diseases of Cruciferous Vegetables and Their Management - Amar Bahadur, Dinesh Singh, Monica Sharma, Birendra Nath Panja, Srima Das, Durga Prashad Bhandari and Ranjan Nath

454-462

31.

Diseases of Brinjal, Okra & Ginger and Their Management - Monica Sharma, Amit Sharma, Rakesh Yonzone, V. Shanmugam, Lakshman Prasad and Tusar Kanti Bag

463-473

32.

Disease of Colocasia and Their Management - Monica Sharma, Adikshita Sharma and Tusi Chakma

474-478

33.

Diseases of Chilli, Onion, Garlic, Large & Small Cardamom and Their Management - Siddu Lakshmi Prasanna, Vivek Khare, Firoz Mandol, Priya John and Amalendu Ghosh

479-495

34.

Disease of Turmeric & Coriander and Their Management - N.M. Gohel, Manjari, Monica Sharma, Kishor Sharma, D.L. Yadav and Ritu Mawar

496-502

35.

Diseases in Marigold, Rose & Chrysanthemum and Their Management - V.P. Prajapati, Priya John, K.B. Rakholiya, S.A. Rathod, Bireswar Sinha, R.C. Shakywar and Utpal Dey

503-516

36.

Diseases of Crops Plants caused by other than Bacteria, Fungi & Nematodes and Their Management - Hemavati Ranebennur, Manish Kumar and Aundy Kumar

517-542

37.

Nematodes Diseases in Cucurbitaceous and Solanaceous Vegetables and Their Managment - Mujeebur Rahman Khan and Ziaul Haque

543-560

38.

Diseases of Tropical Tuber Crops and Their Management - T. Makeshkumar, M.L. Jeeva, R. Arutselvan and S.S. Veena

561-570

 

References

571-605

 

List of Contributors

606-614