Soft Rot Disease of Potato and Onion in Storage and it's Management : Loss Assessment, Identification and Control Measures

ISBN-13: 9783659876684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 156 str.

Majibar Rahman

Opis

The notable bacterial disease of potato and onion is soft rot and affected by the disease during storage and transit of the harvested crops (Rich 1983). Effect of the disease is more pronounced in the developing countries where appropriate storage facilities are lacking. Development of suitable and environment friendly control measures of soft rot causing bacteria may minimize the loss in storage and improve the quality of potato and onion. In Bangladesh research works on the soft rot of those crops are scanty and no effective control measures have been developed for control soft rot. Considering the above facts the study was done to characterize and identify soft rot causing bacterial pathogens and to find out effective control measures. It was found that antagonistic bacteria; botanicals and chemical treatments were effective to control the disease of potato and onion in vitro and in storage and it may be instrumental in designing strategies for soft rot disease control, essential to ensuring global food security. The book should be useful to the students, teachers and researchers in the field of Plant Pathology, advanced growers and traders of potato and onion worldwide.

O autorze

The author Dr. Majibar Rahman obtained PhD in Plant Pathology. He have more than 15 years experience in Research and Extension related works and done consultancy as a Plant Pathology expert. He already published many Scientific articles and he is the member of several national and international professional societies.