Plant diseases often are the worst natural hazards in agriculture, horticulture and forestry. New diseases and new biotypes of existing disease producing organisms appear from time to time in more virulent forms. The most startling aspect of plant diseases is that their management cost us a huge sum every year with serious consequences in environment and human health. Therefore, integrated disease management practices need to be refined and adopted to reduce the crop losses. In this book, the current status of various aspects of integrated disease management in fruits, vegetable, ornamentals, cereals, pulses, oilseeds, medicinal and forest plants etc. has been analyzed. Major focus is on the integrated disease management in horticultural crops. Emphasis has been given to the use of non-chemical methods like cultural practices, soil solarization, plant growth promoting microorganisms, organic amendments, botanicals and biocontrol agents. It is hoped that the book will serve as an important guide to the plant pathologists, horticulturists, nematologists, microbiologists, mushroom scientists, breeders and students. Table of Contents 1. Studies on epidemiology and management of Marssonina blotch, the cause of premature leaf fall in apple - J.N. Sharma, P.K. Sharma and Anita Sharma 2. Studies on morphology and physiology of Marssonina coronaria caus-ing premature leaf fall in apple - P.K. Sharma and J.N. Sharma 3. Effect of weather parameters on the epidemic of apple blotch in Himachal Pradesh - V.S. Thakur, Nirupma Sharma and Sonali Vaidya 4. Occurrence of Alternaria leaf spot (Alternaria alternata ) on apple and its management - J.N. Sharma, Dharmesh Gupta, L.N. Bhardwaj and Ravinder Kumar 5. A rapid method for evaluation of apple germplasm for resistance to Dematophora necatrix causing white root rot - Satish K. Sharma, Y.P. Sharma, D.K. Kishore and K.K. Pramanick 6. Role of bacterial antagonists in the management of white root rot of apple - S.K. Sharma, Mamta Sharma and Meenu Gupta 7. Effect of decontamination processes on residues of carbendazim in apple fruits following dip treatment - I.D. Sharma and Amit Nath 8. Susceptibility of pear cultivars to stem end rot in relation to fruit qualitative characters - R.L. Sharma, Deepika Sood and Manju Choudhary 9. Novel approach for screening different antagonists against Agrobac-terium tumefaciens causing crown gall in stone fruits - A.K. Gupta, Brijesh Kamal, Sandeep Kumar and R.C. Sharma 10. Widespread occurrence of biovar- 1 of Agrobacterium tumefaciens affecting stone fruits in Himachal Pradesh - Sandeep Kumar, Brijesh Kamal and A.K. Gupta 11. Association of sooty mould development with citrus whitefly, Dialeu-rodes citri Asmead, infestation on different citrus rootstocks - Ravinder Kumar, R.C. Batra and D.R. Sharma 12. Studies on Phytophthora spp. attacking strawberry in Himachal Pradesh - Meenu Gupta and L.N. Bhardwaj VEGETABLE CROPS 13. Population dynamics of VAM fungi and its effect on wilt of pea caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. pisi - Shalini Verma and N.P. Dohroo 14. Comparative efficacy of biocontrol agents against Fusarium wilt of pea - Shalini Verma and N.P. Dohroo 15. Management of pea wilt/root rot complex by integrating plant extracts and biocontrol agents - Meena Devi and Y.S. Paul 16. Integration of biopesticides with bioagents in the management of pea wilt/root rot complex -Y.S. Paul, A.S. Kapoor and Meena Devi 17. Management of root rot/wilt complex disease of pea - A.S. Kapoor, Y.S. Paul, K. Kottaisamy and Meenakshi 18. Screening of pea germplasm for resistance against powdery mildew - Kumud Jarial and R.C. Sharma 19. Reaction of pea germplasm to powdery mildew and leaf miner under dry temperate agroclimate in Himachal Pradesh - C.L. Bhardwaj, K.C. sharma and S.D. Sharma 20. Role of soil hydrothermal regimes in development of bacterial wilt of tomato in Himachal Pradesh - Satish K. Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, N.P. Dohroo and Anju Sharma 21. Genetics of resistance to bacterial wilt in tomato (Lycopersicon escule-ntum Mill.) - K.C. Sharma, J.C. Gupta and V.K. Rathee 22. Management of root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita in Tomato nursery by amendment with some organic wastes - Kum Kum Walia 23. Integrated management of Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid and White) Chitwood in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) - Anju S. Khanna and sunil Kumar 24. Management of root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) problem in tomato on farmers’ fields - G.C. Sharma and A.S. Kashyap 25. Prevention of tomato leaf curl virus spread by soil mulching - Dharmesh Gupta, P.D. Thakur, P.K. Sharma, Anil Handa and Usha Sharma 26. Partial characterization of a potyvirus causing mosaic disease in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) in Himachal Pradesh - Dharmesh Gupta, P.D. Thakur, S.C. Chowfla, I.D. Garg and Usha Sharma 27. Epidemiology of a mosaic disease of tomato in Himachal Pradesh - P.K. Sharma, Anil Handa, P.D. Thakur, Usha Sharma and Dharmesh Gupta 28. Post-harvest losses of bell pepper and tomato fruits in Himachal Pradesh - R.L. Sharma, Manju Choudhary and Arti Shukla 29. Detection of seed-borne infection of bacterial wilt in capsicum - Preeti Aggarwal and A.K. Sood 30. Diseases of bell pepper under protected cultivation conditions and their management - S.K. Gupta, R. Bhardwaj, M.K. Sharma and Y.C. Gupta 31. Integrated management of cucurbit mosaic - Ravinder Kaur and S.S. Kang 32. Management of radish mosaic disease in Himachal Pradesh - Usha Sharma, S.C Chowfla, P.D. Thakur, Anil Handa and Bhupesh Gupta 33. Occurrence and management of siliqua blight of cabbage seed crop in dry temperate conditions of Himachal Pradesh - Narender K. Bharat and B.S. Dogra 34. Variations in the physiological and antagonistic behaviour of wild and mutant strains of Trichoderma viride S.K. GANDHI and M.K. SAIKIA ORNAMENTAL CROPS 35. Integration of soil solarization with cruciferous leaf residues for the control of Fusarium wilt pathogen of gladiolus - Harender Raj and Sachin Upmanyu 36. Integrated management of Fusarium yellows of gladiolus caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. gladioli Snyder & Hans. under polyhouse conditions - Shyama Nand Sharma, Sunita Chandel and Manica Tomar 37. Management of Septoria leaf spot of chrysanthemum through cultural practices - Sunita Chandel, Vanita Chandel and Manica Tomar 38. Partial characterization of a tospovirus and chrysanthemum B carla-virus infecting chrysanthemum in Himachal Pradesh - Promil Kapoor 39. Effect of VA-mycorrhizae, nitrogen and phosphorus on growth and flowering in tuberose (Palianthes tuberosa L.) - Satyavir Singh, N.R. Godara and B.P. Sharma 40. Production of virus free plants of African marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) through shoot meristem culture - S.V. Bhardwaj, Arpana Mehra, Anil Handa, Shubhr Jyotsana and Madhurima Bhatnagar 41. Characterization of a carlavirus infecting Oriental lilies - Ashutosh Bhaik and Anil Handa 42. Incidence of lily symptomless carlavirus in polyhouse grown Lilium in Himachal Pradesh - Bunty Shylla, Ashutosh Bhaik, Anil Handa and P.D. Thakur 43. Production of Lilium hybrid cv. Marco Polo plantlets resistant to fusaric acid through somaclonal variations - Madhurima Bhatnagar, S.V. Bhardwaj, P.D. Thakur, Pooja Bhatnagar and Amit Kumar CEREAL, PULSE AND OILSEED CROPS 44. Status of resistance in popular wheat cultivars against major dis-eases in India - D.P. Singh, A.K. Sharma, M.S. Saharan, J. Kumar and Jag Shoran 45. Method for scoring of leaf blight of wheat caused by Bipolaris soro-kiniana (Sacc.) Shoem. at adult stage on top two leaves and its validation - D.P. Singh and Pankaj Kumar 46. Characterization of Alternaria brassicae isolates from Haryana on the basis of nutritional behaviour - Naresh Mehta, Anil K. Khurana and M.S. Sangwan 47. Linear regression model for yield-loss determination of foliar diseases in black gram and common bean - C.L. Bhardwaj, B.S.Thakur, J.C. Gupta and Kishore Khosla 48. Performance of promising common bean cultivars under natural fertility and biotic disease stress condition in dry temperate agroclimate - C.L. Bhardwaj, A. Singh, B.S. Thakur and J.C. Gupta FOREST AND MEDICINAL PLANTS 49. Biological control of damping off disease caused by Fusarium species in Dalbergia sissoo Roxb. - J.C. Kaushik, B.S. Mandal and Sushil Sharma 50. Evaluation of plant extracts against Fusarium solani causing root rot of khair (Acacia catechu) - Manica Tomar and R.C. Sharma 51. Development of leaf rust (Melampsora ciliata Barclay) in Populus ciliata hybrids - Sanjeev Sharma and R.C. Sharma 52. In vitro inhibitory effect of some fungal antagonists against Sclero-tium rolfsii from Glaucium flavum Crantz - S. Kansal and R.C. Sharma MUSHROOMS 53. Determination of thermal death point of different mushroom moulds - S.R. Sharma and Satish Kumar 54. Change in pH values of different casing substrates during cropping of Agaricus bisporus (Lange) Imbach - R.S. Jarial and T.R. Shandilya 55. Salt accumulation in different casing media with the crop progression of Agaricus bisporus (Lange) Imbach - R.S. Jarial and T.R. Shandilya Featured Titles Afforestation of Arid Lands Soil and Water Conservation in semi-Arid Areas Soil Salinity Assessment-Methods and Interpretation of Electrical Conductivity Measurements