Authors:K.G. Mukerji, C. Manoharachary, B.P. Chamola,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: studies, mycorrhizal, techniques
Number of Pages: 564
Published: 2002-03-31
List price: $489.00
ISBN-10: 1402005326
ISBN-13: 9781402005329

The importance of mycorrhiza is amply established as biofertilizers, for their role in the establishment of plants in stress habitats and nutrient-deficient soils, and as biocontrol agents. This book fulfils a great demand for a laboratory manual on mycorrhizal research describing the basic techniques, and contains chapters by eminent Indian mycorrhizologists. As well as basic laboratory exercises (rather than only modern aspects of experimentation), chapters on mycorrhizal dependency, mycorrhiza as biocontrol agents in agriculture, horticulture and forestry, and the establishment of

Authors:Rajeev K. Upadhyay, K.G. Mukerji, B.P. Chamola,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: sustainable, biocontrol, exploitation, potential, agriculture
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2000-12-15
List price: $225.00
ISBN-10: 0306464608
ISBN-13: 9780306464607

A collection of chapters written by experts in the field, discussing the control of crop diseases, weeds, and nematodes in sustainable agriculture though the exploitation of biocontrol methods. For any reader interested in sustainable agriculture and crop productivity. DLC: Biological pest controls.

Authors:K.G. Mukerji, B.P. Chamola, Jagjit Singh,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: biology, mycorrhizal
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: $229.00
ISBN-10: 030646294X
ISBN-13: 9780306462948

`The fundamental problem the world faces today, is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on the limited resources of the land. To meet the ever increasing demands of expanding populations, agricultural production has been raised through the abundant use of inorganic fertilizers, the adoption of multicropping systems and liberal application of chemical pesticides (fungicides, bactericides, etc. ). Though the use of chemicals has increased the yield dramatically, it has also resulted in the rapid deterioration of land and water resources apart from wastage of scarce resources. Th

Authors:Rajeev K. Upadhyay, K.G. Mukerji, B.P. Chamola,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: volume, insect, pests, agriculture, sustainable, potential, exploitation, biocontrol
Number of Pages: 434
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $265.00
ISBN-10: 0306465876
ISBN-13: 9780306465871

Plant based Biotechnology has come to represent a means of mitigating the problems of global food security in the twenty first century. Products and processes in agriculture are increasingly becoming linked to science and cutting edge technology, to enable the engineering of what are in effect, designer plants. One of the most successful, non chemical approaches to pest management and disease control, which seeks a solution in terms of using living organisms to regulate the incidence of pests and and pathogens, providing a `natural control’ while still maintaining the biological