Sustainable Management of Nematodes in Agriculture, Vol.1: Organic Management

Dr. Kamal Kishore Chaudhary obtained his PhD while working on bacterial antagonist, Pasteuria penetrans against root-knot nematode Meloidogyne species at India's premier research institute ICAR-CAZRI, Jodhpur. He served as Assistant Professor at Samara University, Samara (Ethiopia), and Hamelmalo Agricultural College, Keren (Eritrea). He also served as Associate Professor-Biotechnology at Mangalatayan University, India. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. He is the member of Organization of Nematologists of Tropical America (ONTA), America. He is editor/reviewer for several international journals. He has several publications (research articles, review papers and book chapters) to his credit.Dr Mukesh K Meghvansi earned his PhD in 2007 from MDS University, Ajmer (India) while working on biofertilizers under a multinational research project sponsored by the European Commission. For a stint, he served as lecturer at Bundelkhand University Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh) and then joined DRDO in July 2008 as a scientist 'C'. Since his joining, he was engaged in R & D on organic waste management and has contributed to popularizing the vermicomposting among armed forces and civil populace in border and forward areas of Northeast India. He has to his credit more than fifty research publications in various international and national journals. He has filed two patents, one design and one trademark in India. He is life member of Indian Botanical Society and annual member of several national/international professional bodies/societies. He is reviewer of many national international journals. He has authored/edited three more books including two with Springer International Publishing, Switzerland. He also holds an MBA degree with specialization in project management. Currently, he is working as Scientist 'E' at Bioprocess Technology Division, Defence R&D Establishment, Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh), India.

Part 1. Organic Management of Nematodes: Paradigms and Mechanisms.- 1. Biochemical Biopesticides for Phytonematode Sustainable Management: Status and Future Prospects (Thales Lima Rocha; Vera Lucia Perussi Polez; Lívia Cristina de Souza Viol; Reinaldo Rodrigues Pimentel, Danielle Biscaia; Jadir Borges Pinheiro).- 2. Organic Nematicides: A Green Technique and its Overview for the Nematode Disease Management (Faryad Khan, Mohammad Shariq, Mohd Asif, Taruba Ansari, Saba Fatima, Arshad Khan, Mohd Ikram, Mansoor Ahmad Siddiqui).- 3. Nematode Management Through Compost (Fisayo Yemisi Daramola, Samuel B. Orisajo and Omorefosa Osarenkhoe Osemwegie).- 4. Biochemical/Molecular Mechanisms Associated with Nematode Management Through Organic Amendments: A critical Review (John Fosu-Nyarko, Rhys G. R. Copeland, Sadia Iqbal, Michael G. K. Jones).- 5. Organic By-Products in the Suppression of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes (Alixelhe Pacheco Damascena, Marylia Gabriella Silva Costa, Júlio César Antunes Ferreira, Silvia Renata Siciliano Wilcken).- 6. Nematode Management by Humic Acid (Seenivasan Nagachandrabosea, Sankaranarayanan Chellappab, and Devrajan Kandasamya).- 7. Conventional and Organic Management as Divergent Drivers for Plant Parasitic Nematodes (PPNs) control (Kanika Khanna, Vandana Gautam, Dhriti Kapoor, Nandni Sharma, Pooja Sharma, Tamanna Bhardwaj, Puja Ohri, Renu Bhardwaj).- Part 2. Organic Management of Nematodes: Global Case studies and Success Stories.- 8. Plant Extracts and Their Effect on Plant-parasitic nematodes: Case Studies from Africa (Ebrahim Shokoohi).- 9. Organic Management of the Citrus, Pine and Related Nematodes (Reza Ghaderi, Manouchehr Hosseinvand).- 10. Organic Management of Rice Root-Knot Nematode Meloidogyne graminicola (Ziaul Haque and Mujeebur Rahman Khan).- 11. Strategies for the Organic Management of the Root-Knot Nematode (Meloidogyne spp.) in Grapevine Under Desert Conditions in the North Coast of Peru (César Augusto Murguía Reyes).- 12. OrganicFumigant Alternatives for Nematode Management in High-Value Crops in Florida (Johan Desaeger, Kaydene Williams, and Erin Rosskopf).- 13. The False Root-Knot Nematode Nacobbus aberrans and its Ecological Management (Edgar Villar-Luna, Olga Gómez-Rodríguez, Hernán Villar-Luna, Liliana Aguilar-Marcelino, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq Al-Ani, and Ernesto Fernández-Herrera).- 14. Plant Extracts, Sorghum and Crucifers Amendments and Pochonia chlamydosporia for the Management of Meloidodyne spp. and Nacobbus aberrans in Tomato and Chile Crops: the Mexican Experience (Ignacio Cid del Prado-Vera, Marco Antonio Magallanes-Tapia, Raúl Velasco-Azorsa, Arely Pérez-Espíndola).- 15. Non-Conventional Management of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes in Musaceas Crops (Donald Riascos-Ortiz, Ana Teresa Mosquera-Espinosa, Francia Varón De Agudelo, Claudio Marcelo Gonçalves De Oliveira, Jaime Eduardo Muñoz-Florez).- 16. Neem Cake Amendment Changes Soil Nematode Spatio-temporal Dynamics Across a Guava Orchard in the Brazilian Semiarid Region (Diego Arruda Huggins de Sá Leitão, Ana Karina dos Santos Oliveira, Douglas Barbosa Castro, Elvira Maria Régis Pedrosa).