Plant Diseases

The updated tenth edition includes up-to-date references. Although the book mainly describes diseases of field crops, a number of vegetable crop diseases are also included. A major addition to the text is inclusion of biological control measures for most diseases and expansion of the information about phanerogamic plant parasites. Appended list of references at end of each chapter is exhaustive and may be of use to those pursuing research on specific diseases. In this edition Multiple Choice Questions have been included for the benefit of the readers.
Dr. R.S. Singh was engaged in teaching and research in plant pathology since 1948 till
1989. During those four decades he had published about 200 research papers and, in addition to this title, many other books including Introduction to Principles of Plant Pathology, Plant Pathogens-The Fungi, Plant Pathogens—The Nematodes, Plant Pathogens-The Prokaryotes, and Diseases of Vegetable Crops. He co-edited two books Conceptual and Experimental Plant Pathology and Handbook of Economic Nematology. After his retirement from active University service at Pantnagar in 1989, Dr. Singh continued work on his books presenting new editions of Plant Diseases, Principles of Plant Pathology and Diseases of Vegetable Crops. In addition he wrote and published two new titles: Diseases of Fruit Crops and Plant Disease Management. Dr. Singh had been the President of the Indian Phytopathological Society and Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology. He is Honourable Fellow of the Indian Phytopathological Society.
Brief Contents:
Introduction • History of Plant Pathology • The Prokaryotes (Plant Pathogenic Bacteria)
• Bacterial Diseases of Plants •Phytoplasma Diseases of Plants • The Fungi • Diseases Caused by Plasmodiophoromycetes and Mastigomycotina • Diseases Caused by Ascomycotina • Diseases Caused by Basidiomycotina: Uredinales • Diseases Caused by Basidiomycotina (Ustilaginales) • Diseases Caused by Deuteromycotina • Virus and Viroid Diseases of Plants • Diseases Caused by Plant Parasitic Nematodes • Phanerogamic Plant Parasites • Non-Infectious and Non-Parasitic Diseases: Plant Disease Management
• Glossary.