Disease Problems in Vegetable Production

Description:
The book entitled Disease Problems in Vegetable Production 2nd edition, is specifically prepared for under and post graduate students in Agriculture/ Horticulture and range of professionals including teachers, researchers, extension plant pathologists and elite vegetable growers. The book gives a comprehensive over-view of economic importance, symptomatology, etiology, pre-disposing factors and management of vegetable diseases employing cultural, biological, host resistance, plant extracts and chemical methods as such and in anintegrated approach so that the ravages due to the diseases remain below economic threshold level. A total of 19 chapters dealing with important diseases of vegetables like potato, tomato, crucifers, cucurbits, pea, French bean, chillies and bell pepper, onion, garlic, eggplant, carrot, sugar beet, colocasia, okra and leafy vegetables have been compiled in this book. Two new chapters on diseases of ginger and diseases of vegetables under protected cultivation as well as some important diseases of different vegetable crops left out in the first edition have been added in this edition. Besides, the book also includes chapters on common pathogens of vegetable crops, disease problems in nurseries, post harvest diseases and diseases caused by nematodes. All chapters have been updated in the light of available literature up to 2017. Symptoms, disease cycles of important diseases and different structures of pathogen(s) have also been given in the book that will not only help in better diagnosis and understanding of the perpetuation and spread of the causal pathogens but will also help in the management of these diseases more effectively. Coloured photographs of disease symptoms have also been included for easy identification of vegetable diseases.
Contents:
1. Common pathogens of vegetable crops

2. Disease Problems in Vegetable Nurseries

3. Diseases of Potato

4. Diseases of Tomato

5. Diseases of Cruciferous Vegetables

6. Diseases of Cucurbits

7. Diseases of Pea

8. Diseases of French Bean

9. Diseases of Chillies and Bell Pepper

10. Diseases of Onion and Garlic

11. Diseases of Egg Plant

12. Diseases of Carrot and Sugarbeet

13. Diseases of Colocasia

14. Diseases of Okra

15. Diseases of Leafy Vegetables

16. Diseases of Ginger

17. Post-Harvest Diseases of Vegetables

18. Diseases of Vegetables under Protected Cultivation Conditions

19. Nematode Problems in Vegetable Production