Global concern over the demerits of chemicals in agriculture has diverted the attention of researchers towards using the potential of PGPR in agriculture. This book contains many useful and important research papers pertaining to the use of bio-fertilizers and bio-fungicides for…
Onion is a vegetable crop that is consumed and cultivated worldwide. The production of bulbs, however, is threatened by pathogens and pests that infect onion plants and cause yield losses. Three severe diseases of onion are leaf blight, neck rot and white rot and all three are c…
More than 150 year after the Irish potato famine, blight caused by Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary has re-emerged as a major disease worldwide. In Morocco, tomatoes (Lycorpersicum esculentum Mill.) and potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) have become an important segment of th…
The compounds profiled include those herbicides, insecticides and fumigants most commonly found in the groundwater environment. The number of compounds included in this book was narrowed down based on information available in the documented literature. Compounds profiled in this…