Management of Fungal Pathogens in Pulses

lt;p>Bhim Pratap Singh Dr. Bhim Pratap Singh working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Aizawl, Mizoram University, India, has more than 10 years of research experience in the field of molecular microbiology, biocontrol of plant diseases, mushroom diversity, the biosynthetic potential of actinobacteria and fungi associated with medicinal plants. He has worked for the last 10 years on microbial diversity and explored the microbial population associated with medicinal plants and rhizospheric soils. His group has documented the wild mushroom from Mizoram, Northeast India. He has completed seven externally funded research projects on screening and characterization of endophytic actinobacteria and fungi associated with medicinal plants and the rhizospheric soils funded by several funding agencies. Dr. Singh has organized several international and national conferences and seminars including India-UK scientific seminar jointly funded by the British Council and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi. Dr. Singh has been awarded several honors like the young scientist award in 2014 from Scientific and Education Research Society, India and Best achievement award for the contribution to the Asian PGPR society, USA. Dr. Singh is serving ad editors of several reputed peer-reviewed scientific journals like Frontiers in Microbiology, Plos ONE, etc., and he is an active member of several national and international professional bodies like Asian PGPR Society, Association of Microbiologists of India, MSI, ISCA, etc.. His group has published 51 research papers in SCI journals and 18 book chapters in the books published by national and international publishers. Dr. Singh has also edited six books published from Springer and Elsevier publications. Dr. Singh has filed six patents on several applications of endophytic actinobacteria in plant growth promotion. Dr. Singh has guided 4 Ph.D. students and 3 M.Phil students till date.

Garima Singh Dr. GarimaSingh has completed her doctorate in 2018 from Mizoram University, India in plant sciences and worked on the pharmaceutical potential of selected traditional medicinal plants collected from Northeast India. Dr. Singh has 5 years of research experience and has published several research papers in national and international journals having high impact factor like Scientific reports, BMC complementary and alternative medicine, frontiers in plant sciences, etc. Dr. Singh has awarded for her work by several agencies while presenting her research work in India and abroad.

Krishna Kumar Dr. Krishna Kumar presently working as Dean, PanditDeendayalUpadhyay College of Horticulture and Forestry, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur-848125, Bihar, India. He worked as Post Doctoral Research Associate at Unit of Virology, IARI, New Delhi, Assistant Professor (Plant Pathology) at SK University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Jammu and then served as Senior Scientist and Principal Scientist at Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair. He also served as Principal Scientist at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India.  He has also worked as Head, Division of Crop Protection in Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, India. He has over 23 years of research, teaching and extension experience in mushroom production, bio-control, microbial diversity, integrated disease management, diagnosis of unknown plant diseases and suitable bio-control agents. He is a recipient of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Award for Outstanding Research in Tribal Farming Systems-2010 by Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, SPPS Meritorious Scientist Award-2011 by Society of Plant Protection Sciences, New Delhi, Distinguished Service Award-2010 by BIOVED Research Society, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh and PP Singhal Memorial PI Industries Award

Preface.- Major fungal foliar diseases of arid legumes and their sustainable management for improving productivity in rain fed areas of India.- Management strategies of foliar diseases of chickpea.- Management of soil borne pathogens of pulses grown in Saudi Arabia through PGPRs.- Management of fungal diseases through application of beneficial rhizobacteria consortia.- Crop health management of pulses through application of PGPR and organic fertilizers technology.- Application of PGPR and Biocontrol for management of pigeon pea diseases.- Soil and crop health management of pigeon pea pathogens through the application of  bacteria.- Characterizations of chickpea wilt pathogens and their management.- Foliar fungal diseases of Vigna spp.: Overview and management.- Diversity of Phytophora stem blight of piegonpea and their sustainable management.- Management of lentil wilt for its sustainable utilization.- Management ofsoil born fungal diseases of Vigna spp..-Detection of major fungal pathogens affecting pulses in India by using molecular methods.- Appendix: Research Institutes/ Labs working on pulses.- Index.-