Here is a list of fifteen major plant diseases with their control measures. 1. Tip Burn of Paddy or Pansukh of Rice: The names, tip burn, dakhitla, chatra, ukra, kadamoraor pansukh, have been given tea leaf-drying disease of rice known in India for quite some time. It has been described by Dastur (1937) and Mishra and Chakravarty (1955). Symptoms or [...]
In this article we will discuss about how do plants protect and defend themselves from pathogens and diseases. Introduction to Pathogens: Once a pathogen has arrived in the vicinity of a potential host plant or, as may happen in the case of soil-borne pathogens, a plant root has arrived in the vicinity of a pathogen, subsequent events depend on the [...]
The following points highlight the top six examples of transgenic plants. The examples are: 1. "High Lysine" Corn 2. Enhanced Nitrogen Fixation 3. Herbicide-Tolerant Plants 4. Disease-Insect-Resistant Varieties 5. Male Sterility 6. Transgenic Plants as Bioreactors (Molecular Farming). Example # 1. "High Lysine" Corn: The proteins stored in plant seeds function as reserves of amino acids used during seed germination [...]