Plant Viruses, Diseases and Their Management Paperback / softback

Plant Viruses, Diseases and Their Management consists of 19 chapters covering all the aspects of plant viruses, diseases and their management containing information of classical as well as advanced plant virology.

This textbook gives information on new advances which are taking place in the fast-evolving field of Plant Virology.

It contains separate chapters on properties of plant viruses with symptoms, composition, morphology, nomenclature and modern classification, along with description of different viruses.

Chapters based on identification, isolation and purification of plant virus, and protein- and nucleic acid-based modern diagnostic techniques have also been included in this book.

This book also contains information on ecology, epidemiology and general management strategies of plant virus related diseases.

Genome organization, genome strategy and gene function, virus replication and virus movement have also been dealt extensively and illustrated with diagrams in an organized way in different chapters.

Transmission of plant viruses by various means and virus-vector molecular interaction have been covered elaborately.

This book includes a large chapter covering almost all the important plant virus diseases in India and their management.

The last chapter contains practical manual covering protocols of advanced techniques which will help the researchers and plant virologists. With its focus and coverage, this will serve as a text book for undergraduate, postgraduate students and research scholars in Plant Virology, Agriculture, Botany, Plant Pathology, Entomology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.

This book will help teachers to prepare for lectures.