Plant Disease Management Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture through Traditional and Modern Approaches

This book provides an account of the classical and recent trends in plant sciences, which have contributed for disease management strategies in plants for sustainable agriculture. Advancements in the disciplines of biological sciences like biotechnology, microbiology, bioinformatics as well as information and communication technology etc has given the new dimensions for the development of new plant disease management strategies. By keeping this perspective in view, the editors collected and compiled the useful, practical and recent information regarding plant disease management from a diverse group of authors from different countries associated with well-reputed scientific, teaching and research organizations with the objective to update and equip the researchers with comprehensive and latest knowledge of plant disease management. This book is based on the knowledge of traditional and modern approaches for plant disease management. It has 15 chapters, each chapter describing the pillar strategies, which may be the possible way for crop protection from diseases.

Dr. Imran Ul Haq is a Plant Pathologist and specialized in Fungal Molecular taxonomy. Currently he is Associate Professor and in-charge of Fungal Molecular Biology Laboratory as well as Fungal Molecular Biology Laboratory Culture Collection (FMB-CC-UAF), in the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He is running different research projects funded by national and international agencies. His research interests are fungal molecular taxonomy, integration of nanotechnology with other control strategies for sustainable plant disease management. He has authored three Laboratory manuals, more than 50 research publications in well reputed, peer reviewed, high impacted national and international journals and book chapters. He is also author of a book “Recombinant DNA Technology”.