Range of microbial disease complexes with meloidogyne species and role of botanicals in management

Abstract

Plant diseases are economically very important. The increasing realization of role of plant niche environment particularly the rhizosphere has triggered the application of management strategies to manage soilborne diseases below threshold. Among these regulatory strategies, one important aspect is to break the pathogenic symbioses as disease complexes. The present chapter has been divided into two parts: The first part focuses on the important soil pathogens in the vicinity with host plants with the role of edaphic climate in their association as disease complexes, while the second one deals with the changing strategy of soil environment using eco-friendly botanicals to discourage formation of disease complexes.