Blast disease of cereal crops : evolution and adaptation in context of climate change

Blast disease of cereal crops : evolution and adaptation in context of climate change / S. Chandra Nayaka, Rajashekara Hosahatti, Ganesh Prakash, C. Tara Satyavathi, Rajan Sharma, editors.

Blast is an important foliar disease that infects the majority of cereal crops like rice, finger millet, pearl millet, foxtail millet and wheat, and thus results in a huge economic impact. The pathogen is responsible for causing epidemics in many crops and commonly shifts to new hosts. Magnaporthe s...

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Other Authors: Nayaka, S. Chandra (Editor), Hosahatti, Rajashekara (Editor), Prakash, Ganesh (Editor), Satyavathi, C. Tara (Editor), Sharma, Rajan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021].
Series:Fungal biology (Springer (Firm)),
Subjects:
Grain > Diseases and pests.
Grain > Diseases and pests
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Blast Disease: Historical Importance, Its Distribution, and Host Infectivity Across Cereal Crops
  • Recent Advances in Blast Rice Disease
  • The Blast-A Major Malady in Neutricereals in Southeast Asia
  • Utilizing Host-Plant Resistance to Combat Blast Disease in Rice
  • Microconidia: Understanding Its Role in the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae
  • Finger Millet Blast Pathogen Diversity and Management in Uttarakhand
  • Finger Millet Blast (Magnaporthe grisea): Current Scenario and Its Integrated Disease
  • Advances in Genetics, Genomics for Management of Blast Diseases in Cereal Crops
  • Wheat Blast Management: Prospects and Retrospective
  • Scenario of Blast Diseases in the Eastern Region of India
  • Chemicals in the Management of Blast Disease of Rice
  • Magnaporthe Genome: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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