Red Rot: The Cancer of Sugarcane - Softcover

Ansari, Mohammad Israil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3330346043 ISBN 13: 9783330346048

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

The cancer of sugarcane caused by pathogen Colletotrichum falcatum is one of the most devastating disease of sugarcane throughout world. This disease affect badly the sugarcane crop and as a results sugar factories affect very badly. This influence employment also. Inspite of long efforts for this disease, still very serious challenge for sugarcane researchers as during the epidemic of this disease sugarcane production effect a lot. Due to some resistant varieties of sugarcane the epidemics of red rot has been reduced but due to emergence of new pathotypes of red rot pathogen crop is usually effected. Though red rot of sugarcane is very important disease, hardly any proper compilation has been done except few reviews and book chapter. This book is a kind of efforts to understand the host and disease properly.

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About the Author

Dr. Mohammad Israil Ansari is Associate Professor at Department of Botany, University of Lucknow, Lucknow. He did his M.Sc. from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, INDIA and Ph.D. from Dr. RML Avadh University, Faizabad. Dr. Ansari was associated as Research Scientist with Academia Sinica, Taiwan and National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2000-2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 3330346043
• ISBN 13: 9783330346048
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 56