Biological Control of Rice Diseases
This book on biological control of rice diseases deals with microorganisms and cultural practices as the non-chemical alternatives developed and used to manage devastating rice diseases such as blast, sheath blight, bacterial blight and rice tungro diseas
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Progress in Biological Control Volume 8 Published: Volume 1 H.M.T. Hokkanen and A.E. Hajek (eds.): Environmental Impacts of Microbial Insecticides – Need and Methods for Risk Assessment. 2004 ISBN 978-1-4020-0813-9 Volume 2 J. Eilenberg and H.M.T. Hokkanen (eds.): An Ecological and Societal Approach to Biological Control. 2007 ISBN 978-1-4020-4320-8 Volume 3 J. Brodeur and G. Boivin (eds.): Trophic and Guild Interactions in Biological Control. 2006 ISBN 978-1-4020-4766-4 Volume 4 J. Gould, K. Hoelmer and J. Goolsby (eds.): Classical Biological Control of Bemisia tabaci in the United States. 2008 ISBN 978-1-4020-6739-6 Volume 5 J. Romeis, A.M. Shelton and G. Kennedy (eds.): Integration of Insect-Resistant Genetically Modified Crops within IPM Programs. 2008 HB ISBN 978-1-4020-8372-3; PB ISBN 978-1-4020-8459-1 Volume 6 A.E. Hajek, T.R. Glare and M. O’Callaghan (eds.): Use of Microbes for Control and Eradication of Invasive Arthropods. 2008 ISBN: 978-1-4020-8559-8 Volume 7 H.M.T. Hokkanen (ed.): Relationships of Natural Enemies and Non-Prey Foods. 2008 ISBN: 978-1-4020-9234-3
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Samuel S. Gnanamanickam
Biological Control of Rice Diseases
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Samuel S. Gnanamanickam Texas AgriLife Research & Extension Center Texas A&M University 17360 Coit Road, Dallas, TX 75252 United States [email protected]
Cover Photograph: Rice fields in Palakkad District of Kerala, southern India. ISBN 978-90-481-2464-0 e-ISBN 978-90-481-2465-7 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2465-7 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009928431 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
There is sufficient need to document all the available data on biological control of rice diseases in a small volume. Part of this need rests on the global importance of rice to human life. In the first chapter, I have tried to show that rice is indeed life for most people in Asia and shortages in production and availability can lead to a food crisis. While rice is cultivated in most continents, biological disease management attains special relevance to rice farmers of Africa, Asia, and also perhaps, Latin America. These farmers are resource-poor and might not be able to afford the cost of expensive chemical treatments to control devastating rice pathogens such as Magnaporthe oryzae (blast), Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (bacterial leaf blight), Rhizoctonia solani (sheath blight) and the virus, rice tungro disease. In an earlier volume that I devel
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