Biocontrol of Plant Diseases and Their Benefits

Description

In general, a plant becomes diseased when it is continuously disturbed by some causal agent that results in an abnormal physiological process that disrupts the plant’s normal structure, growth, function, or other activities. This interference with one or more of a plant’s essential physiological or biochemical systems elicits characteristic pathological conditions or symptoms. Plant diseases can be broadly classified according to the nature of their primary causal agent, either infectious or noninfectious. Infectious plant diseases are caused by a pathogenic organism. Biological Control of Plant Diseases and Weeds has been prepared by accumulating information on use and application of biological control and their characters. This book will provide base information to the teachers of the subject of biological control.