Horticultural crops are adversely affected by a variety of pests and diseases. For the success of hi-tech horticulture, integrated management of these pests and diseases is essential. Research efforts are required to develop models for application of IPM practices for important crops in different locations.
With changing horticultural practices new pests like thrips, white flies, mites, phytoplasma, viruses and viroids are emerging. Some of these are exotic pests. To protect horticultural crops from such pests, greater vigilance and stringent quarantine measures are required. Hence this book on ‘Disease management of horticultural crops under protected cultivation’ was prepared. The book has nine chapters which deals elaborately with scope and importance of protected cultivation, problems under protected cultivation, Integrated Disease Management (IDM) strategies and disease management strategies in fruit crops like Strawberry, vegetable crops like tomato, capsicum, gourds and spice crops like paprika and coriander and ornamental crops like rose, carnation, gerbera, anthurium, dendrobium, asiatic lily, chrysanthemum and gladiolus. This book will certainly help the readers for better understanding of the pest and diseases in Horticultural crops and under protected cultivation. This book will be an inevitable source material for the students, researchers, scientists and horticulturists all over the world.
Common |
Author |
N. Indra, P. Aruna & V. Ponnuswami |
Binding |
Hardcover |
Edition |
1 |
ISBN |
978-81-7132-713-3 |
Language |
English |
Number Of Pages |
xvi+184 |
Publication Year |
2012 |
Publisher |
Pointer Publishers, Jaipur |