Introduction to Phytopathological and Botanical Research Techniques

Description

The success of green revolution was solely based on high input agriculture that included improved irrigation, increased frequency of irrigation, high inorganic fertilization, and heavy application of pesticides. The sustenance agriculture changed to market based agriculture. Crop rotations became meaningless. Organic farming lost relevance to give space to intensive agriculture. However, repeated use of certain chemical fungicides has led to the appearance of fungicide resistant populations of plant pathogens. In recent years there has been considerable pressure by consumers to reduce or eliminate chemical fungicides in foods. In this book “Introduction to Phytopathological and Botanical Research Techniques” an attempt has been made to present methods which are of use to phytopathologists. This book presents newly discovered diseases and newly identified hosts in the classic format that has won favour with readers at every level of expertise and experience. This book has been designed in mind the mentality of the general reader's language which is easy to understand.