Biological Control of Rice Diseases

• Main Author: Gnanamanickam, Samuel S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Progress in Biological Control ; 8
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Microbiology.; Plant pathology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Pathology.

This book on biological control of rice diseases deals with microorganisms and cultural practices as the non-chemical alternatives developed and used to manage devastating rice diseases such as blast, sheath blight, bacterial blight and rice tungro disease in Asia. The term, biological control has b...

Table of Contents:

• Rice and Its Importance to Human Life
• Major Diseases of Rice
• An Overview of Progress in Biological Control
• Biological Control of Rice Blast
• Biological Control of Bacterial Blight of Rice
• Biological Control of Sheath Blight (ShB) of Rice
• Biological Control of Sheath-Rot and Other Fungal Diseases
• Biological Control of Rice Tungro Disease (RTD).