Diseases of Plantation Crops and Their Management

This book gives a comprehensive account of major economically important diseases of fruits and plantation crops of tropical and subtropical regions. Each chapter includes distribution, symptomatology with color photographs, casual agent, epidemiology, disease cycle, various management strategies includes cultural, host plant resistance, chemical and biological & biotech approaches.

The book also gives a detailed calendar of operations in for disease management in each of these crops. The detailed bibliography is also provided at the end. The book serves an important guide for teachers, researchers, extension workers and farming community at large.

The main features of the book are as follows:

1.Each topic has been thoroughly described, the theory is rigorously developed and a large number of numerical examples have been included to illustrate its application.

2.The book also contains advanced problems useful for competitive examinations.