Beschreibung:
Blast is an important foliar disease that infects the majority of cereal crops like rice, finger millet, pearl millet, foxtail millet and wheat, and thus results in a huge economic impact. The pathogen is responsible for causing epidemics in many crops and commonly shifts to new hosts. Magnaporthe spp. is the most prominent cause of blast disease on a broad host range of grasses including rice as well as other species of Poaceae family. To date, 137 members of Poaceae hosting this fungus have been described in fungal databases.
Preface.- Blast Disease: Historical Importance, Its Distribution, and Host Infectivity Across Cereal Crops.- Recent Advances in Blast Rice Disease.- The Blast-A Major Malady in Neutricereals in Southeast Asia.- Utilizing Host-Plant Resistance to Combat Blast Disease in Rice.- Microconidia: Understanding Its Role in the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae.- Finger Millet Blast Pathogen Diversity and Management in Uttarakhand.- Finger Millet Blast (Magnaporthe grisea): Current Scenario and Its Integrated Disease.- Advances in Genetics, Genomics for Management of Blast Diseases in Cereal Crops.- Wheat Blast Management: Prospects and Retrospective.- Scenario of Blast Diseases in the Eastern Region of India.- Chemicals in the Management of Blast Disease of Rice.- Magnaporthe Genome: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward.- Bibliography.- Index.