Through a discussion of plant-insect relationships, this book focuses on how to protect the cultivated cereals that many worldwide populations depend on for food
1. Introduction2. Systematics and Taxonomy3. Biology, Behavior, and Ecology4. Insect–Plant Relationships5. Pest Management Strategies and Technologies
Dr. A. Kalaisekar, Senior Scientist in Agricultural Entomology at
the ICAR- Indian Institute of Millets Research (formerly
Directorate of Sorghum Research), Hyderabad, India. He graduated
with a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural sciences and completed his
master’s in Agricultural Entomology from Acharya N. G. Ranga
Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India. He finished his Ph.D. in
Agricultural Entomology (Insect Taxonomy) at the Agricultural
Research Institute, New Delhi, India. He joined ICAR-Indian
Institute of Millets Research as a Scientist in 2008 and
successfully handled several research projects in systematics and
population biology of Shoot flies (Atherigona spp.). Dr PG Padmaja,
Principal Scientist in Agricultural Entomology at the ICAR- Indian
Institute of Millets Research (formerly Directorate of Sorghum
Research), Hyderabad, India. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree
in Agricultural Sciences and completed her master’s in Agricultural
Entomology from the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University,
Tirupathi, India. She did her Ph.D. in Entomology from the Indian
Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), a premier institute of
higher studies in agricultural sciences in New Delhi, India. She
was awarded Rothamsted International Fellowship and did her
post-doc in the Biological Chemistry, Rothamsted Research,
Harpenden, UK.
She joined ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research as a Scientist
in 1998 and successfully handled several research projects. She is
interested in finding new ways to protect millets from insect
pests. Her research focuses on host plant resistance mechanisms,
phenotyping for shoot fly resistance and bioassay of Bt transgenic
sorghum against stemborer. Presently working on devising strategies
for exploiting semiochemicals for pest management in millets at the
field level. Her major area of interest is to unravel the
host-insect interactions by identification of novel
semio-chemicals, tritrophic interactions mediated by induced
defense volatiles, stored grain pest management and develop an
innovative approach for pest management in millets. She has been
awarded with NUFFIC fellowship from Netherlands government for
training on IPM and Food safety at Wageningen International Centre,
The Netherlands. She has more than 40 scientific publications which
include high impact journals such as Journal of Chemical Ecology,
Crop Protection, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Molecular
Breeding, Plant Breeding, Euphytica, Phytoparasitica and Journal of
Insect Science.
She has guided students for their post graduate and doctoral
studies. She is also the Fellow of Plant Protection Association of
India and life member of Society of Millets Research, Hyderabad,
India.
Dr. V.R. Bhagwat, Principal Scientist in Agricultural Entomology at
the ICAR- Indian Institute of Millets Research (formerly
Directorate of Sorghum Research), Hyderabad, India. He graduated
with a bachelor’s degree in Economic Entomology completed his
masters in Ecology Entomology and his Ph.D. in Entomology from Dr
Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, India. He received
Team ICAR Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Team Research in
Agriculture and Allied Sciences for the Biennium 2005-06 to Drs SK
Tyagi, Mridula Devi and VR Bhagwat for their outstanding research
contribution in Engineering and Technology. Dr. Patil joined as the
Director, Directorate of Sorghum Research, Hyderabad in 2010. He is
also instrumental in creating Centre of Excellence (DAC, Ministry
of Agriculture, GOI) which is a state of the art facility for
providing advanced training in the field of value added food
products. Apart from functioning as Director, he is actively
engaged in research with field evaluation of thousands of sorghum
germplasm accessions for useful traits.Dr.J.V. Patil has developed
19 varieties of safflower, chickpea, green gram, rajma bean, pigeon
pea and sorghum. He has executed several research projects
including international collaborative ones such as DFID,
ICRISAT-IFAD, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Hope Project and Mc
Knight Foundation, USA funded projects. Apart from varietal
development he also developed and popularized several crop
production technologies such as sowing methods, seed treatment,
foliar nutrient application and IPM in chickpea and in situ
moisture conservation, soil type-based cultivars, protective
irrigation, nutrient supply and intercultural time schedule in
sorghum. He is receipient of many reputed awards and recognitions
such as ICRISAT’s Doreen Mashler Award 2002, CGIAR’s King Baudouin
Chickpea team Award 2002, Baliraja Late Annasaheb Shinde Smruti
Krishi Sanshodhan Gaurav Purskar 2004, Vasantrao Naik krishi
Puraskar 2005 and Maharashtra State Government’s Agricultural
literature Award 2010He has to his credit 107 peer reviewed foreign
and national journal papers, 16 books and 53 other technical
publications. He delivered 27 Radio Talks and 11 TV shows for the
benefit of farmers cultivating sorghum and pulses.
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