Dr Alok

Post Harvest Management of Plant Diseases Dr Alok

About BookThis book gives insight view about post harvest management in plant pathology which has changed its emphasis in recent years. Food safety has emerged as a key element in decay control programs. Continued failures to effectively control certain post harvest diseases and the need for more environmental friendly crop control materials is driving a new approach to disease control. Integrated postharvest decay control is the concept that offers the most promise for the future. Society can no longer rely on one or two control strategies but must enlist the entire spectrum of strategies to reduce post harvest losses. About Author"Dr Shradha Srivastava was born in Gorakhpur, U. P, India. She did her M. Sc with specialization in Plant pathology from D. D. U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur. After that she joined Mahatma Gandhi Post Graduate College, Gorakhpur as a teaching faculty in the department of botany. Later she shifted to Lucknow and joined department of botany, mycology and plant pathology lab, university of Lucknow. She worked on different aspects of plant-fungi relationship and published many research papers in reputed journals, she has also contributed in many book chapters published from Wiley and Springer. Dr. Alok is an Assistant Professor in S. K. B. B Government Post Graduate College, Harakh, Barabanki, U. P. India. He did his M. Sc with specialization in plant pathology from D. D. U. Gorakhpur university, Gorakhpur. Later on he joined research in Plant mega fossil laboratory of Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, U. P. and published many research articles in national and international journals. He was awarded by prestigious fellowship Dr. D. S. Kothari Post-Doctoral fellowship by University Grant Commission."