Management of Wheat and Barley Diseases

Both wheat and barley are two of the most important food and industrial crops in the world. Wheat and barley cultivation has experienced changes in practices due to factors such as methods of conservation agriculture, cropping systems, wheat varieties, changes in weather patterns, and international trade, necessitating new and different approaches for the successful management of emerging diseases and new pathotypes of pathogens. This valuable volume explores a multitude of new approaches and techniques for the effective management of emerging wheat diseases.

This new volumepresents the latest literature on management technology of diseases that affect the production of wheat and are capable of reducing grain yields as well as grain quality. These diseases include rusts, smuts, other foliar diseases such as blight, spots, blotch, powdery mildew, bunts, etc., as well as diseases such as Karnal bunt of wheat, which is of importance to international trade.

This book will be highly valuable to researchers, students, teachers, farmers, seed growers, traders, and other stakeholders dealing with wheat and barley. It also advances our knowledge in the field of plant pathology, plant breeding, and plant biotechnology, agronomy, and grain quality and pesticide industries. The book will serve as a reference on disease management technologies for the containment of losses in wheat and barley yields and will assist in maintaining wheat quality, reducing the cost of cultivation, increasing yield, and thus in helping to ensuring food security on a global level.

Strategic Disease Management in Wheat and Barley. Management of Rust Diseases in Wheat and Barley: Next Generation Tools. Holistic Management of Foliar Blight Disease of Wheat and Barley. Overcoming Stripe Rust of Wheat: A Threat to Food Security. Powdery Mildew of Wheat and Its Management. Management of Karnal Bunt and Loose Smut Diseases in Wheat. Flag Smut of Wheat and Its Management Practices. Black Point of Wheat Caused by Bipolaris sorokiniana and Its Management. Important Nematode Pests of Wheat and Barley and Their Management. Disease Resistance Breeding in Wheat - Theory and Practices. Host Resistance to Spot Blotch (Bipolaris sorokiniana) in Wheat and Barley. Molecular Markers for Wheat Improvement: Tool for Precision Rust Resistance Breeding. Gene Pyramiding for Developing High Yielding Disease Resistant Wheat Varieties. Breeding Strategies and Prospects of Wheat Improvement in North-Western Himalayas. Diseases of Wheat in Brazil and Their Management. Status of Wheat Diseases and Their Management in Gujarat State of India. Disease Spectrum on Barley in Rajasthan During 2006-2015 and Integrated Management Strategies. Resource Conservation Agriculture Practices, Rhizosphere and Diseases of Wheat Under Wheat: Rice Cropping System. Survey and Surveillance of Wheat Biotic Stresses: Indian Scenario. Evolution of Wheat Rust Pathogens in Indian Sub Continent. Stem Rust Pathotype Ug 99: An Indian Context. Barley Stem Rust Resistance Mechanisms: Diversity, Gene Structure, and Function Suggest A Recently Evolved Host-Pathogen Relationship. Inverse Gene-For-Gene: Necrotrophic Specialist’s Modus Operandi in Barley and Wheat. Wheat Blast Caused by Magnaporthe oryzae Pathotype Triticum—Present Status, Variability, and Strategies for Management

Dr. Devendra Pal Singh is the Principal Scientist (Plant Pathology) and Principal Investigator (Crop Protection Programme) at ICAR – Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (ICAR – IIWBR) Karnal, India. He was the Coordinator at the Rice Research Station, Guyana Rice Development Board, Guyana, and Senior and Principal Scientist (Plant Pathology) at ICAR – IIWBR, Specialist in Zambia on a UNDP/FAO Project (United Nations Development Programme/Food and Agriculture Organization) and a Visiting Scientist at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Dr. Singh has published over 110 research papers and edited two books. He is fellow of the Indian Phytopathological Society, the Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology, and the Indian Society of Plant Pathologists and sits on the editorial boards and panels of reviewers of several international journals in plant pathology, including the journal of the American Phytopathological Society. Dr. Singh earned his PhD in Plant Pathology from the G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India, and his MBA from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, India.