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- The first book to document all the biological control practices
- Describes environment-friendly, affordable microbial-based disease control measures mostly developed in India, Philippines and Asia
Part of the book series: Progress in Biological Control (PIBC, volume 8)
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There is suf?cient need to document all the available data on biological control of rice diseases in a small volume. Part of this need rests on the global importance of rice to human life. In the ?rst chapter, I have tried to show that rice is indeed life for most people in Asia and shortages in production and availability can lead to a food crisis. While rice is cultivated in most continents, biological disease management attains special relevance to rice farmers of Africa, Asia, and also perhaps, Latin America. These farmers are resource-poor and might not be able to afford the cost of expensive chemical treatments to control devastating rice pathogens such as Magnaporthe oryzae (blast), Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (bacterial leaf blight), Rhizoctonia solani (sheath blight) and the virus, rice tungro disease. In an earlier volume that I developed under the title, Biological Control of Crop Diseases (Dekker/CRC Publishers, 2002), I included transgenic crops generated for the management of plant pathogens as biological control under the umbrella of a broad de?nition. Dr Jim Cook who wrote the Foreword for the volume lauded the inclusion of transgenic crops and induced systemic resistance (ISR) as a positive trend toward acceptance of host plant resistance as part of biocontrol. I continue to subscribe to this view.
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biological Control of Rice Diseases
Authors: Samuel S. Gnanamanickam
Series Title: Progress in Biological Control
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2465-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2464-0Published: 17 July 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2606-2Published: 30 November 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2465-7Published: 14 July 2009
Series ISSN: 1573-5915
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0076
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 108
Topics: Plant Pathology, Agriculture, Microbiology