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Diseases of Arid Legumes: Extent and Management

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Title Diseases of Arid Legumes: Extent and Management
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Creator Ritu Mawar
Manish Mathur
A S Tomar
 
Subject arid legume
pulse crops
dry root rot
cercospora
mung bean
 
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Legumes play an important role in improving livelihood, nutritional security
of farmers and populations in less developed countries as well as sustainability
of agriculture in dry areas worldwide. Grain legumes are important rotational
crops in the Pacific Northwest and Northern Great Plains of the United States and
central California. The introduction of pulse crops into the agricultural systems
in Western Australia is relatively recent and has been supported by considerable
research to adapt and develop varieties and production systems to suit this
Mediterranean environment. Traditionally grain legume or pulses have been an
important constituent of predominantly vegetarian diet of the people of India.
These are cultivated over a vast area-nearly 25 million hectares constituting 18 per
cent of the total cultivated area in this country, the largest in the world. Legume
crops, which include pulses are important source of protein for a large population
of vegetarian people of India. The important grain and seed legumes of India are
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.), faba bean (Vicia faba
L.), grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) and fieldpea (Pisum sativum L.) are grown in cool
season, while Clusterbean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.), pigeonpea (Cajanus
cajan (L.) Millsp.), blackgram (Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper), mungbean (V. radiata (L.)
Wilczek), horsegram (Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc.), cowpea (V. unguiculata
(L.) Walp) and soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) are the warm season legumes.
These grain legumes grown worldwide are prone to attack by a large number of
plant pathogens, from fungi, bacteria, phytoplasmas, and viruses to nematodes and
parasitic angiosperms, which resultin severe economic losses globally. Among these,
fungi and viruses are the largest and perhaps the most important groups affecting
all parts of the plant at all stages of growth (Table 16.1). In the present chapter the
diseases of guar, cowpea, mothbean and horse gram have been reviewed
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Date 2021-07-27T09:12:49Z
2021-07-27T09:12:49Z
2021-06-01
 
Type Book chapter
 
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Language English
 
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