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Food Security and Plant Disease Management offers a comprehensive exploration of biocontrol, the latest technologies being used in plant health assurance, and resulting impacts on crop production and food security. Discussing both theoretical and practical topics, the book examines basic and advanced applications of biosensor and nano-technologies, introduces plant disease, including modes of action and their transmission in host plants, then covers factors contributing to plant disease and various means of addressing those diseases. This volume is part of the Microorganisms in Agriculture and the Environment series and provides important information for developing new effective plant protection practices. The direct or indirect applications of beneficial microbes in the treatment of plant disease is termed microbial control and these methods have increasingly been identified as important options for plant health management. The beneficial microbes as well as recent omic and nano-technologies also reveal important mechanisms that can be utilized in disease management strategies.

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Author:   Ajay Kumar (Visiting Scientist, Agriculture Research Organization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Volcani Center, Rishon, Lezziyon, Israel)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Woodhead Publishing
Weight:   0.950kg
ISBN:  

9780128218433

ISBN 10:   0128218436
Pages:   482
Publication Date:   26 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction of plant diseases: Infections and transmission 2. Current status of plant diseases and food security 3. Impact of climate change on plant diseases and food production: an Overview 4. Exploring the Molecular signatures of host-pathogen interactions in plant diseases: conflict and cooperation 5. Principle, diversity, mechanism and potential of practical application of plant probiotic bacteria for the biocontrol of phytopathogens by induced systemic resistance 6. RNA interference as a promising strategy for plant disease management 7. Safflower plant disease -sustainable protection against (Alternaria carthamus L.) 8. Mycotoxins associated food safety concerns of agriculture crops 9. CRISPER/CAS technology for food security and plant disease management 10. An overview of nanotechnology in disease management and food safety 11. Plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) as biocontrol agents in the cereal crops 12. Recent advances in commercial production and formulation of microbial biocontrol agents 13. Harnessing the potential of biostimulants and biocontrol agents for sustainable management of agricultural productivity 14. Microbial formulation approaches in postharvest disease management 15. Utilization of antagonistic microbes for the eco-friendly management of fungal diseases of the harvested fruits during post-harvest handling and storage 16. Microbiological efficacy of decontamination methodologies for fresh produce 17. Sustainable agricultural practices using microbial strains for crop protection 18. Probiotics in edible coatings: approaches to food security and fruit disease management 19. Microbial volatiles: prospects for plant defense and disease management 20. Molecular techniques used in plant disease diagnosis 21. Biomanagement of Fusarium spp. associated with pulses

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Dr. Ajay Kumar is a visiting scientist at the Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani center, Rishon Leziyon, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development Israel. He has published extensively in leading International and National journals or books. He has wide area of research experience, especially in the field of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Microbial biocontrol, and Endophytes related with the medicinal plants, Postharvest management of fruits. Dr. Kumar has published more than 165 research articles including review papers/book chapters/ books in the leading international journals. He is serving as special issue editors in some journals like Frontiers in Microbiology, Microorganism etc. In addition also acting as reviewer in some leading journals like Frontiers group, PLOS ONE, Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Biological Control, Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 3Biotech etc. Dr, Kumar has edited several books with leading publishers including Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor and Francis.

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