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This volume explores how soils in tropical crop production areas naturally suppress devastating diseases affecting key crops such as rice, banana, cocoyam, and others. While disease-suppressive soils in temperate regions have been widely studied, far less is known about their occurrence and role in the tropics. For the first time, we bring together and document evidence showing how tropical soils contribute to disease suppression, often in regions where crops have been cultivated for time immemorial. For example, research in India has shown that rice has been grown continuously in the same soils for over 3,000 years under monoculture.
By engaging leading researchers as chapter authors, this volume highlights how soil suppressiveness functions in tropical systems and draws parallels with findings from temperate regions. A particular emphasis is placed on the soil microbiome, underscoring its central role in maintaining soil and crop health.
Table des matières
.- Disease Suppressive Rice Soils in The United States and Their Importance to Crop Production.
.- Cocoyam Root Rot Disease Caused by Pythium Myriotylum: Etiology, Epidemiology and Management.
.- Management of Verticillium Wilt Based on Disease Suppressive Soils and Organic Amendments.
.- Banana Disease Suppressive Soils and Mitigation of Panama Disease in China.
.- Development of Disease Suppressive Rice Soils that Improve Rice Yields in Southern India.
.- Suppressive Soils for the Management of Basal Stem Rot Disease of Oil Palm.
.- Rhizobacterial-plant interactions: conferring to plant growth under drought and salinity stress.
.- Soil-Inhabiting Beneficial Fungi for Plant Growth-Promotion and Crop Protection Against Environmental Stresses in Iran.
.- Research on Disease Suppressive Soils of Brazil.
.- Microbiomes in Disease Suppressive Soils and its implications on plant Pathogens.
A propos de l'auteur
Dr Sam Gnanamanickam is an Indian plant pathologist. He was a professor at the University of Madras and has been recognized as an Adjunct Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is known for his research on diversity of rice pathogens, molecular breeding of indica rices for disease resistance, and for developing superior strains of beneficial strains of rhizosphere bacteria for biological control of rice diseases. He has been named as a noteworthy plant pathologist and his pioneering contributions include the introduction of Pseudomonas and Bacillus strains to India for biological rice disease management (known today as the No Pesticide Rice Farming) and jump-starting the biopesticide industry in India.
Prof. Dr. Monica Höfte is a full professor at Ghent University and is the head of the laboratory of Phytopathology and head of the Department of Plants and Crops. She is an agricultural engineer with a PhD in microbial ecology and is well known for her contributions to both fundamental and practical aspects of plant-pathogen interactions. Her research interests are biological and integrated control of plant pathogens and natural and induced resistance mechanisms against fungi and bacteria in a wide variety of tropical (cocoyam, rice, banana) and temperate crops (lettuce, tomato, bean, cabbage, pepper, grapevine). She is a specialist in the use of Pseudomonas strains for biocontrol.
Résumé
This volume explores how soils in tropical crop production areas naturally suppress devastating diseases affecting key crops such as rice, banana, cocoyam, and others. While disease-suppressive soils in temperate regions have been widely studied, far less is known about their occurrence and role in the tropics. For the first time, we bring together and document evidence showing how tropical soils contribute to disease suppression, often in regions where crops have been cultivated for time immemorial. For example, research in India has shown that rice has been grown continuously in the same soils for over 3,000 years under monoculture.
By engaging leading researchers as chapter authors, this volume highlights how soil suppressiveness functions in tropical systems and draws parallels with findings from temperate regions. A particular emphasis is placed on the soil microbiome, underscoring its central role in maintaining soil and crop health.
