Plants are indispensable part of human and animal lives for nutrition and health. But pests, diseases and abiotic stress adversely affect crop yield and it ultimately causes huge pressure on society to provide food to increasing population. Moreover, it also induces increased chemical/pesticide usage on crops which again comes before us in form of biomagnification of toxic and hazardous compounds polluting over water bodies, soil, and environment. This condition is going to be worse in future due to resistance acquiring ability of pathogens against plant defence and chemical treatments. Beside this, environmental disturbance and consumer health issues are being reported more promptly than before due to intensive use of pesticide in food production. Plant diseases are affecting our daily lives as food having insecticides and pesticides has become a part of our food chain. So, precise disease diagnosis and management is most crucial to avoid huge losses in plant production and related commodities. So, accurate detection, precise diagnosis, and proper management can play a significant role in keeping plants free from pathogens. In this book, scientists, researchers, and scholars share their research knowledge which will provide valuable source for understanding plant diseases, pathogen interaction and response to stress through omics perspective and it will ultimately contribute to further advancements in the field
Diseases in plant may be caused by various factors such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and abiotic stress etc. It causes low crop yield, production of poor-quality fruits and grains, deficiency of nutrients which have direct impact on human and animal health. Genomics based approached can be used for disease diagnosis, disease outbreak, evolution of plant and pathogen genome for disease outbreak in relation to climate change, and be helpful in development of long-term strategies for plant health and defence. This book presents an overview of omics technologies and approaches used to understand:
1) relation between plant and its environment in terms of diseases
2) response to abiotic stress
3) genomics of plant-pathogen interaction
4) herbicide resistance mechanisms
5) epigenetics of plant-pathogen interaction
6) gene regulation during abiotic stress response
7) oxidative stress response
About the Author:
Dr Ashutosh Mani did M.Sc. and PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Allahabad, India. He worked as a MIUR fellow at the University of Cagliari, Italy. He is an Assistant professor at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India. He has more than ten years of teaching and research experience in molecular and structural biology, genomics and computational biology. His area of interest includes herbal drug discovery against Alzheimer's disease and diabetes and plant stress tolerance. Dr Mani has published more than 50 articles in national and international journals of repute. He has supervised 5 PhD, 10 M.Tech and 23 B.Tech Students. He has completed four sponsored research projects. He receives research grants from funding agencies like DST, SERB, ICMR and DBT.
Dr. Sandeep Kushwaha started his research career as a doctoral student at the Department of Bioinformatics, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal. During his stay at Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, He has worked on more than ten major scientific projects in plant and soil science, elucidating molecular and genetic mechanisms and plant interaction using omics data, bioinformatics tools and techniques. He works as Scientist-E at the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology, Hyderabad, India. He has completed various research projects, published research articles in the public domain, and taught various courses at higher education in various places in India and abroad.
