Management of Wheat and Barley Diseases

ISBN-13: 9781771885461 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 656 str.

Devendra Pal Singh

Opis

This new volume, Management of Wheat and Barley Diseases, presents the latest literature on management technology of diseases that affect the production of wheat and are capable of reducing grain yields as well as grain quality. These diseases include rusts, smuts, other foliar diseases such as blight, spots, blotch, powdery mildew, bunts etc., as well as diseases such as Karnal bunt of wheat, which is of importance in international trade. Both wheat and barley are two of the most important food and industrial crops in world. Wheat and barley cultivation has experienced changes in practices due to factors such as methods of conservation agriculture, cropping systems, wheat varieties, changes in weather patterns, and international trade, necessitating new and different approaches for the successful management of emerging diseases and new pathotypes of pathogens. This valuable volume explores a multitude of new approaches and techniques for the effective management of emerging wheat diseases. This book will be highly valuable to researchers, students, teachers, farmers, seed growers, traders, and other stakeholders dealing with wheat and barley. It also advances our knowledge in the field of plant pathology, plant breeding, and plant biotechnology, agronomy, and grain quality and pesticide industries. The book will serve as a reference on disease management technologies for the containment of losses in wheat and barley yields and will assist in maintaining wheat quality, reducing the cost of cultivation, increasing yield, and thus in helping to ensuring food security on a global level.

O autorze

Dr. Devendra Pal Singh is the Principal Scientist (Plant Pathology) and Principal Investigator (Crop Protection Programme) at ICAR – Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (ICAR – IIWBR) Karnal, India. He was the Coordinator at the Rice Research Station, Guyana Rice Development Board, Guyana, and Senior and Principal Scientist (Plant Pathology) at ICAR – IIWBR, Specialist in Zambia on a UNDP/FAO Project (United Nations Development Programme/Food and Agriculture Organization) and a Visiting Scientist at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Dr. Singh has published over 110 research papers and edited two books. He is fellow of the Indian Phytopathological Society, the Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology, and the Indian Society of Plant Pathologists and sits on the editorial boards and panels of reviewers of several international journals in plant pathology, including the journal of the American Phytopathological Society. Dr. Singh earned his PhD in Plant Pathology from the G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India, and his MBA from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, India.