Both wheat and barley are two of the most important food and industrial crops in the world. Wheat and barley cultivation has experienced changes in practices due to factors such as methods of conservation agriculture, cropping systems, wheat varieties, changes in weather patterns, and international trade, necessitating new and different approaches for the successful management of emerging diseases and new pathotypes of pathogens. This valuable volume explores a multitude of new approaches and techniques for the effective management of emerging wheat diseases.
This new volume presents the latest literature on management technology of diseases that affect the production of wheat and are capable of reducing grain yields as well as grain quality. These diseases include rusts, smuts, other foliar diseases such as blight, spots, blotch, powdery mildew, bunts, etc., as well as diseases such as Karnal bunt of wheat, which is of importance to international trade.
This book will be highly valuable to researchers, students, teachers, farmers, seed growers, traders, and other stakeholders dealing with wheat and barley. It also advances our knowledge in the field of plant pathology, plant breeding, and plant biotechnology, agronomy, and grain quality and pesticide industries. The book will serve as a reference on disease management technologies for the containment of losses in wheat and barley yields and will assist in maintaining wheat quality, reducing the cost of cultivation, increasing yield, and thus in helping to ensuring food security on a global level.
Strategic Disease Management in Wheat and Barley
Devendra Pal Singh
Management of Rust Diseases in Wheat and Barley: Next Generation Tools
Siddanna Savadi, Pramod Prasad, Subhash C. Bhardwaj, Om P. Gangwar, Hanif Khan, and Subodh Kumar
Holistic Management of Foliar Blight Disease of Wheat and Barley
A. K. Chowdhury, P. M. Bhattacharya, S. Bandyopadhyay, and T. Dhar
Overcoming Stripe Rust of Wheat: A Threat to Food Security
Om P. Gangwar, Subhash C. Bhardwaj, Subodh Kumar, Promod Prasad, Hanif Khan, and Sidanna Savadi
Powdery Mildew of Wheat and Its Management
Ashwani Kumar Basandrai and Daisy Basandrai
Management of Karnal Bunt and Loose Smut Diseases in Wheat
Ritu Bala, Jaspal Kaur and Indu Sharma
Flag Smut of Wheat and Its Management Practices
Devendra Pal Singh
Black Point of Wheat Caused by Bipolaris Sorokiniana and Its Management
Mohammed Shamshul Q. Ansari, Anju Pandey, V. K. Mishra, A. K. Joshi, and R. Chand
Important Nematode Pests of Wheat and Barley and Their Management
S. S. Vaish
Disease Resistance Breeding in Wheat - Theory and Practices
Hanif Khan, Subhash C. Bhardwaj, Pramod Prasad, Om P. Gangwar, Siddanna Savadi, and Subodh Kumar
Host Resistance to Spot Blotch (Bipolaris sorokiniana) in Wheat and Barley
Devendra Pal Singh
Molecular Markers for Wheat Improvement: Tool for Precision Rust Resistance Breeding
Subodh Kumar, Subhash C. Bhardwaj, Om P. Gangwar, Pramod Prasad, Hanif Khan, and Siddana Savadi
Gene Pyramiding for Developing High Yielding Disease Resistant Wheat Varieties
M. Sivasamy, V. K.Vikas, P. Jayaprakash, Jagdish Kumar, M. S. Saharan, and Indu Sharma
Breeding Strategies and Prospects of Wheat Improvement in North-Western Himalayas
Dharam Pal and Madhu Patial
Diseases of Wheat in Brazil and Their Management
S. P. Val-Moraes
Status of Wheat Diseases and Their Management in Gujarat State of India
S. I. Patel, V. A. Solanki, B. M. Patel, and R. S. Yadav
Disease Spectrum on Barley in Rajasthan During 2006-2015 and Integrated Management Strategies
P. S. Shekhawat, S. P. Bishnoi, and R. P. Ghasolia
Resource Conservation Agriculture Practices, Rhizosphere and Diseases of Wheat Under Wheat: Rice Cropping System
Anju Rani and Devendra Pal Singh
Survey and Surveillance of Wheat Biotic Stresses: Indian Scenario
M. S. Saharan
Evolution of Wheat Rust Pathogens in Indian Sub Continent
Subhash C. Bhardwaj, Subodh Kumar, T. R. Sharma1, O. P. Gangwar, Pramod Prasad, Hanif Khan, and Siddana Savadi
Stem Rust Pathotype Ug 99: An Indian Context
Pramod Prasad, Subhash C. Bhardwaj, Hanif Khan, Om P. Gangwar, Siddanna Savadi, and Subodh Kumar
Barley Stem Rust Resistance Mechanisms: Diversity, Gene Structure, and Function Suggest A Recently Evolved Host-Pathogen Relationship
Robert S. Brueggeman and Shyam Solanki
Inverse Gene-For-Gene: Necrotrophic Specialist’s Modus Operandi in Barley and Wheat
Jonathan Richards, Gazala Ameen, and Robert Brueggeman
Wheat Blast Caused by Magnaporthe oryzae Pathotype Triticum—Present Status, Variability, and Strategies for Management
Devendra Pal Singh
Biography
Dr. Devendra Pal Singh is the Principal Scientist (Plant Pathology) and Principal Investigator (Crop Protection Programme) at ICAR – Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (ICAR – IIWBR) Karnal, India. He was the Coordinator at the Rice Research Station, Guyana Rice Development Board, Guyana, and Senior and Principal Scientist (Plant Pathology) at ICAR – IIWBR, Specialist in Zambia on a UNDP/FAO Project (United Nations Development Programme/Food and Agriculture Organization) and a Visiting Scientist at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Dr. Singh has published over 110 research papers and edited two books. He is fellow of the Indian Phytopathological Society, the Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology, and the Indian Society of Plant Pathologists and sits on the editorial boards and panels of reviewers of several international journals in plant pathology, including the journal of the American Phytopathological Society. Dr. Singh earned his PhD in Plant Pathology from the G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India, and his MBA from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, India.
"Brings together a broad wealth of updated information, new knowledge, and improved disease identification and management technologies from many expert scientists who are actively engaged in managing a diverse range of wheat and barley diseases. "
—Dr. Ravi P. Singh, Distinguished Scientist, Head-Wheat Improvement & Rust Research, Global Wheat Program, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Texcoco, México
"Up-to-date information and knowledge. This is a product of hard work by 43 expert contributors having experience and deep knowledge on wheat and barley diseases. The book divided into three parts and includes 24 chapters that are useful for extension and development workers, researchers, teachers, students, and even for policymakers. Part I: Disease Identification and Management Practices is of utmost importance for extension and service providers. Part II: Diseases in Diverse Agroecological Conditions and Part III: Pathogenic Variability and Its Management give broader aspects of some major diseases, including rusts and wheat blast, a new threat."
—Hira Kaji Manandhar, Professor of Plant Pathology (adjunct), Agriculture and Forestry University, Chitwan, Rampur, Nepal; Former Senior Scientist, Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Kathmandu, Nepal
“Up-to-date information and knowledge. This is a product of hard work by 43 expert contributors having experience and deep knowledge on wheat and barley diseases. The book divided into three parts and includes 24 chapters that are useful for extension and development workers, researchers, teachers, students, and even for policymakers. Part I: Disease Identification and Management Practices is of utmost importance for extension and service providers. Part II: Diseases in Diverse Agroecological Conditions and Part III: Pathogenic Variability and Its Management give broader aspects of some major diseases, including rusts and wheat blast, a new threat.”
—Hira Kaji Manandhar, Professor of Plant Pathology (adjunct), Agriculture and Forestry University, Chitwan, Rampur, Nepal; Former Senior Scientist, Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Kathmandu, Nepal
