
Food Security and Plant Disease Management
- 1st Edition - November 20, 2020
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editors: Ajay Kumar, Samir Droby
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 8 4 3 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 8 5 5 - 6
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Request a sales quoteFood Security and Plant Disease Management offers a comprehensive exploration of biocontrol, the latest technologies being used in plant health assurance, and resulting impacts on crop production and food security. Discussing both theoretical and practical topics, the book examines basic and advanced applications of biosensor and nano-technologies, introduces plant disease, including modes of action and their transmission in host plants, then covers factors contributing to plant disease and various means of addressing those diseases. This volume is part of the Microorganisms in Agriculture and the Environment series and provides important information for developing new effective plant protection practices.
The direct or indirect applications of beneficial microbes in the treatment of plant disease is termed “microbial control” and these methods have increasingly been identified as important options for plant health management. The beneficial microbes as well as recent omic and nano-technologies also reveal important mechanisms that can be utilized in disease management strategies.
- Explores the impact of climate change on plant diseases and new methods of resolution
- Includes information on gene expression during crop disease management
- Presents insights into the legal and commercial aspects of microbial control
Researchers and students interested in utlizing microbes in crop plant protection and fertilization, general agriculture, environment management. Microbiologists, ecologists, plant pathologists, physiologists, agronomists, molecular biologists, pharmacologists and related researchers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Chapter 1. Recent advancement in plant disease management
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Disease: A dynamic phenomena
- 1.3 Pathogenicity: Facet of a successful infection
- 1.4 Technological upliftment: An integrated approach
- 1.5 Sustainable intensification: A sustainable way of plant disease management
- 1.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 2. Current status of plant diseases and food security
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Worldwide plant diseases and loss of crop productivity
- 2.3 Plant disease detection methods
- 2.4 Plant diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, and nematodes
- 2.5 Effect of plant diseases on yield and nutritional attributes of crop produce
- 2.6 Plant disease management approaches
- 2.7 Genetic modification and genome editing tactics for plant disease management
- 2.8 Food security and climate change
- 2.9 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3. Microbial bioactive compounds in plant disease management
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Bioactive compounds produced by Pseudomonas spp
- 3.3 Bioactive compounds produced by Burkholderia spp
- 3.4 Bioactive compounds produced by Bacillus spp
- 3.5 Bioactive compounds produced by actinobacteria
- 3.6 Bioactive compounds produced by Fungi
- 3.7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4. Exploring the molecular signatures of host–pathogen interactions in plant diseases: conflict and cooperation
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Pathogens virulence
- 4.3 How pathogen sense plants?
- 4.4 How pathogens recognize host plant?
- 4.5 Elicitors as weapons of plant pathogens
- 4.6 Molecular basis of host–pathogen recognition
- 4.7 Plant fungus gene-for-gene relationship
- 4.8 Hypersensitive response
- 4.9 Induced systemic resistance enhances plant growth through fungal biocontrol agents
- 4.10 Programmed cell death during plant–pathogen interactions
- 4.11 Improvement of biocontrol agents by molecular approaches
- 4.12 Host–pathogen interactions: cooperation and conflict
- 4.13 Conclusion
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 5. Principle, diversity, mechanism, and potential of practical application of plant probiotic bacteria for the biocontrol of phytopathogens by induced systemic resistance
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Induced systemic resistance in plants
- 5.3 Plant probiotic bacteria–mediated induced systemic resistance
- 5.4 Role of induced systemic resistance in controlling phytopathogen
- 5.5 Molecular mechanism of induced systemic resistance by plant probiotic bacteria
- 5.6 Expression pattern of induced systemic resistance in plant against phytopathogen
- 5.7 Relationship of induced systemic resistance with plant growth and biocontrol
- 5.8 Conclusion and future perspectives
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 6. RNA interference as a promising strategy for plant disease management
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 RNA interference: Definition
- 6.3 A brief evolutionary story of RNA interference
- 6.4 Core components in RNA interference mechanism
- 6.5 RNA interference mechanism
- 6.6 Methods to induce RNA interference in plants against phytopathogenic diseases
- 6.7 Management of phytopathogenic viruses using RNA interference technology
- 6.8 Management of plant-bacterial diseases by adopting RNA interference technology
- 6.9 Management of plant fungal diseases using RNA interference technology
- 6.10 Conclusions and future directions
- References
- Chapter 7. Safflower disease—a sustainable protection against Alternaria carthami L.
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Safflower disease resistance
- 7.3 Scientific evidence for sustainable plant protection
- 7.4 Safflower biotechnology
- 7.5 In vitro regeneration through tissue culture
- 7.6 Plants resistant to Alternaria carthami via indirect organogenesis
- 7.7 Genetic improvement and transformation of safflower
- 7.8 Field testing
- 7.9 Conclusion and future perspective
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 8. Mycotoxin-associated food safety concerns of agriculture crops
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Occurrence of mycotoxins
- 8.3 Analysis and monitoring of mycotoxins
- 8.4 Prevention and food safety measures
- 8.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 9. CRISPR/Cas in food security and plant disease management
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Insights of CRISPR/Cas system invention
- 9.3 Origin and applications of CRISPR/Cas technology
- 9.4 CRISPR/Cas in editing plants for abiotic stresses
- 9.5 Editing plants for disease resistance
- 9.6 CRISPR/Cas for virus resistance
- 9.7 Bacterial pathogen resistance via CRISPR/Cas
- 9.8 Fungal pathogen resistance via CRISPR/Cas
- 9.9 Future potentials and challenges of CRISPR/Cas technology
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 10. An overview of nanotechnology in plant disease management, food safety, and sustainable agriculture
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Implications of nanotechnological tools in sustainable agriculture
- 10.3 Nanopesticides
- 10.4 Nanotechnology in disease diagnosis and plant disease management
- 10.5 Application of nanotechnology for food safety and preservation
- Acknowledgments
- Conflict of interest
- Author contributions
- References
- Chapter 11. Plant growth promoting bacteria as biocontrol agents against diseases of cereal crops
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 The status of cereal crops and diseases
- 11.3 Plant growth promoting bacteria as biological control agent
- 11.4 Action mechanism of plant growth promoting bacteria
- 11.5 Biocontrol of soil-borne diseases in cereal crops
- 11.6 Conclusions
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 12. Commercial production and formulation of microbial biocontrol agents
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Mode of action of biocontrol agents
- 12.3 Antibiosis
- 12.4 List of antibiotics produced by some biocontrol agents
- 12.5 Plant growth–promoting attributes as biocontrol agents
- 12.6 Induced systematic host resistance
- 12.7 Commercial products of microbial biocontrol agents
- 12.8 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 13. Harnessing the potential of biostimulants and biocontrol agents for sustainable management of agricultural productivity
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Biostimulants
- 13.3 Biocontrol agents
- 13.4 Challenges associated with biostimulants and biocontrol agents
- 13.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 14. Microbial formulation approaches in postharvest disease management
- Abstract
- Graphical abstract
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Postharvest disorders caused by biotic factors
- 14.3 Control strategies for postharvest diseases
- 14.4 Microbes’ role in controlling postharvest disease
- 14.5 Bioformulation
- 14.6 Volatile organic compounds or antimicrobial secondary metabolites produced by antagonists as direct pathogen control
- 14.7 Action mechanism of bioformulations
- 14.8 Commercial production of bioformulations to control postharvest diseases
- 14.9 Hurdles during commercialization of bioformulations and measures employed to increase the transition from lab to land
- 14.10 Conclusions and future aspects
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 15. Utilization of antagonistic microbes for the eco-friendly management of fungal diseases of the harvested fruits during postharvest handling and storage
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Different kinds of microbial antagonists used as postharvest biocontrol agents
- 15.3 Sources of the microbial antagonist and criteria for selecting the ideal microbial antagonist
- 15.4 Mechanisms of actions of microbial antagonists
- 15.5 Delivery methods of postharvest biocontrol agents
- 15.6 Enhancement in biocontrol performance and efficacy of microbial antagonists
- 15.7 Development of effective biocontrol formulations and their commercial applications
- 15.8 Conclusions and future prospects
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 16. Microbiological efficacy of decontamination methodologies for fresh produce
- Abstract
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Decontamination technologies
- 16.3 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 17. Sustainable agricultural practices using microbial strains for crop production
- Abstract
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Role of rhizosphere in plant–microbe interaction
- 17.3 Plant growth–promoting bacteria
- 17.4 Plant growth–promoting bacteria and their attributes
- 17.5 Fungi as plant growth–promoting agents
- 17.6 Microbial antagonistic in plant disease management
- 17.7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 18. Probiotics in edible coatings: Approaches to food security and fruits disease management
- Abstract
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 Edible films and coatings
- 18.3 Materials for edible films/coatings for probiotic applications
- 18.4 Microbes and their probiotic activities
- 18.5 Probiotic incorporation in edible films/coatings
- 18.6 Probiotics in edible coatings and their potential applications
- 18.7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 19. Microbial volatiles: Prospects for plant defense and disease management
- Abstract
- 19.1 Introduction
- 19.2 Factors affecting microbial volatile composition
- 19.3 Extraction of volatile compounds
- 19.4 Diversity of volatiles
- 19.5 Microbial volatiles: Approaches to plant defense
- 19.6 Application of microbial volatiles in plant disease management
- 19.7 Conclusion
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 20. Molecular techniques used in plant disease diagnosis
- Abstract
- 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 Impact of biotic stress on crop yield
- 20.3 Conventional methods for detection and diagnosis of plant diseases
- 20.4 Modern approaches for plant disease diagnosis
- 20.5 Omics approaches for plant disease diagnosis
- 20.6 Management of plant diseases
- 20.7 Future prospects and concluding remarks
- Acknowledgement
- References
- Chapter 21. Biomanagement of Fusarium spp. associated with pulse crops
- Abstract
- 21.1 Introduction
- 21.2 Major diseases associated with pulses
- 21.3 Fusarium wilts: An overview
- 21.4 Occurrence of Fusarium wilts in pulses worldwide
- 21.5 Economic losses due to Fusarium infection in pulses
- 21.6 Control of Fusarium vascular wilt in pulses
- 21.7 Host–pathogen interaction studies for Fusarium species
- 21.8 Symptomatology and epidemiology of Fusarium wilts
- 21.9 Identification of Fusarium species associated with pulse crops in the fields
- 21.10 History: Fusarium associated with pulses
- 21.11 Management of Fusarium wilt in pulses
- 21.12 Conclusions
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 20, 2020
- No. of pages (Paperback): 482
- No. of pages (eBook): 482
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128218433
- eBook ISBN: 9780128218556
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