Seed-Borne Diseases of Agricultural Crops: Detection, Diagnosis & Management by Ravindra Kumar
English | PDF,EPUB | 2020 | 860 Pages | ISBN : 9813290455 | 45.6 MB
The global population is increasing rapidly, and feeding the ever-increasing population poses a serious challenge for agriculturalists around the world. Seed is a basic and critical input in agriculture to ensure global food security. Roughly 90 percent of the crops grown all over the world are propagated by seed. However, seed can also harbour and spread pathogens, e.g. fungi, bacteria, nematodes, viruses etc., which cause devastating diseases. Seed-borne pathogens represent a major threat to crop establishment and yield. Hence, timely detection and diagnosis is a prerequisite for their effective management.