Powdery Mildews of India Check List

by D K Agarwal

ISBN: 9789359199269
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Imprint : Associated Publishing Company
Year : 2025
Price : Rs. 4195.00
Biblio : xi+106p.,figs.,tabls.,ind., 25 cm

Author Profile

Professor D.K. Agarwal (b.13.2.1945), M.Sc.(Bot.)1967, Ph.D. (Bot.) 1974, F.P.S.I. M.N.A. Sc., F.I.M.S (mycologist), Division of Plant Pathology, IARI, New Delhi <BR> He has to his credit more than 400 research publications, review and popular articles and book chapters in national and international journals of repute. <BR> Dr. V.B. Hosagoudar, a graduate from Karnataka University; M. Sc. in Mycology from Y.C. Institute of Science, Satara (Shivaji University); DBM from D.G. College of Commerce, Satara (Shivaji University); Ph.D. and D.Sc. from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. Worked for fifteen years in Botanical Survey of India, Southern Circle, Coimbatore and now in Tropoical Botanic Garden & Research Institute Palode, Thiruvananthampuram, Kerala. <BR> Bioresources Technology for Sustainable Agriculture <BR> Prof.Dr. S. Kannaiyan is Dean (Agriculture) and Professor of Biotechnology in Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India and has been teaching post graduate students in Agricultural Microbiology and Agricultural Biotechnology for the past 20 years. Prof. Dr. Kannaiyan did his B. Sc. (Agriculture) with first class and distinctions in plant Pathology and Agronomy and M. Sc. (Agriculture) in Agricultural Microbiology with first class and first rank from Annamalai University by securing Dr.M.P. Damodaran’s and Dean’s Awards. He also obtained his Ph. D. in 1976 in Agricultural Microbiology and the thesis was rated as the best. He has published more than 400 research papaers in reputed National and International Journals in the areas of Cyanobacteria, Azolla Biofertilizer, stem nodulating Sesbania rostrata and Rice Pathology. He has published 16 scientific books pertaining to Biofertilizers and Agriculture and 6 books on technology transfer in Tamil.

About The Book

Powdery mildews are the group of obligate parasitic and biotrophic fungi on wide host range of Plants, cause heavy damage to them. Much work has been done on the powdery mildews of cultivated plants. These fungi exhibit their anamorph or conidial stages in the tropic and product their sexual or perithecial stages or telemorphs in the temperate regions. Fortunately, India harbours all the climatic conditions and geographical regions of the world and helps to produce telemorphs in Himalayan region and anamorphs in the Peninsular region.