Biological Suppression of Plant Diseases, Phytoparasitic Neematodes and Weeds

The first section - Biological suppression of Plant diseases is having eight chapters and an introduction.First chapter discussed prospects of biocontrol of plant diseases, and identified the critical areas that need immediate attention. Second chapter summarized biocontrol work on major diseases of plantation crops. Chapter 3 dealt with mass production technology for fungal antagonists and their field evaluation_ Fourth chapter covered bio- suppression of fungal pathogens of commercial crops with fungal antagonists, registration requirements and quality control aspects. Role of secondary metabolites of Pseudomonon fluorescens in the biocontrol of plant pathogens has been described and genetic-engineering for improved production of microbial metabolites have been suggested in chapter 5.