Sustainable Crop Disease Management using Natural Products - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780643233 ISBN 13: 9781780643236

Publisher: CABI Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Alternative methods of disease control such as natural products and compounds derived from biological origins, provide an effective alternate to the use of chemical products or a means to minimize their use. It is imperative now to look for such sustainable crop disease management approaches, that include routine and alternative methods. Natural products for sustainable crop disease management is an effort in this direction, and deals with immediate concerns in the field of natural and alternative products for disease control, apart from using biocontrol organisms. This book presents up-to-date information on natural products and compounds derived from biological origins and thoroughly discusses their applicability, field use and prospects for adoption under different cropping conditions. This book also validates disease management strategies.

About this title

About the Authors

Sangeetha Ganesan teaches at Annamalai University, India.

Kurucheve Vadivel teaches at Annamali University, India.

Jayaraj Jayaraman teaches at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.

Edition details

• Publisher: CABI Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780643233
• ISBN 13: 9781780643236
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Ganesan Sangeetha, Vadivel Kurucheve, Jayaraman Jayaraj