Plant Defence: Biological Control
With ever increasing human population, demand for food, feed and fodder is continuously increasing. Diseases by insect pests, pathogens and animal pests are responsible for heavy crop losses and reduced food supplies, poorer quality of agricultural produc
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Professor J.M. Mérillon (born 1953) did his M. Pharma (1979) and Ph.D. (1984) from the University of Tours, Tours, France. He joined the University of Tours as faculty member in 1982 and became associate professor in 1987 and a full Professor in 1993 at the faculty of Pharmacy, University of Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France. He is currently group leader of ‘study group on biologically active plant substances, Institute of Vine and Wine Sciences’ with 20 scientists and research students. He has published more than 100 research papers in internationally recognized journals. He is involved in developing courses and research on vine and wine in France and traveled widely being a senior professor. Scientists from several countries are working in his laboratory and the research is supported by funds from the vine growers association, ministry of higher education and research and various private entrepreneurs. He has worked as coeditor for a few books on medicinal plants. Professor K.G. Ramawat (born 1952) did his M.Sc (1974) and Ph.D. (1978, Plant Biotechnology) from the University of Jodhpur, Jodhpur India and joined as faculty member in January 1979. He joined M.L. Sukhadia University as Associate Professor in 1991 and became Professor in 2001. He served as Head, Department of Botany (2001–2004), In charge, Department of Biotechnology (2003–2004), member task force on medicinal and aromatic plants, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi (2002–2005) and co-ordinator UGC-DRS and DST-FIST programmes (2002–2009). He did his Post-doctoral at University of Tours, France (1983–85) and subsequently worked as visiting professor at University of Tours (1991) and University of Bordeaux2, France (1995, 1999, 2003, 2006). He visited Poland under INSA-PAN academic exchange programme (2005). He has published more than 120 research papers and review articles in reputed journals and books. He has edited a few books on Biotechnology of medicinal plants published by Science Publishers Inc, Enfield, USA and Springer Verlag, Germany. Prof. Ramawat has completed several major research projects funded by UGC, CSIR, ICAR, DBT and DST, New Delhi and has supervised doctoral thesis of 20 students.
J.M. Mérillon and K.G. Ramawat (eds.), Plant Defence: Biological Control, Progress in Biological Control 12, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1933-0, © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
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A ABA. See Abscisic acid Abiotic elicitors, 119–127, 175, 179 Abscisic acid (ABA), 73, 260, 285, 295, 296, 302, 315, 321, 371, 393 Accumulation, 31, 58, 59, 61, 64, 112, 118, 119, 121, 125, 126, 161, 162, 201, 242, 244–256, 258, 259, 261, 276, 277, 282–285, 295, 296, 317, 321, 322, 324, 336, 349, 350, 354, 390, 391 Active oxygen species (AOS), 315, 316, 321, 322, 397 Adrian, M., 313 Aery, N.C., 241, 246, 250 Aflatoxins, 156, 196, 197 Airborne diseases, 171 Allelochemicals, 147, 149–151, 154–155, 200 Alonso–Villaverde, V., 25 Ampelomyces, 15, 171 Amruthesh, K.N., 379 Anatomical changes, 345, 350 Animal products, 161 Antifeedant, 199, 200 AOS.
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