Land Use: Reflection on Spatial Informatics, Agriculture and Development

by Mrityunjay Mohan Jha, R. B. Singh

Overview

Although considered structurally simple, bacteria are extremely diverse from a metabolic standpoint and are found almost everywhere on Earth in vast numbers-form living in jet fuel and on the rims of volcanoes to thriving in hydrothermal vents deep on the ocean floor. There are both beneficial and pathogenic bacteria- Beneficial bacteria are involved in such diverse processes as digestion in animals, nitrogen fixation in the roots of certain legumes, the decomposition of animal and plant remains, and sewage disposal systems' Pathogenic bacteria, on the other hand, cause Severe and often, fatal diseases in humans, animals, and plants. The first bacterial disease ever discovered was anthrax(caused by Bacillus anthraces) of cattle and sheep in 1876- This book will be highly beneficial to students, teachers and research workers in the field of plant pathology' plant protection, botany and agricultural sciences' contents: Bacteria; Bacterial Diseases of Soybean; Bacteria! Diseases of Tomato; infectious Plant Diseases and their control; Bacterial Diseases of Tomato: Bacterial spot, Bacterial Speck, Bacterial canker; Soil Bacteria and Actinomycetes : canine Bacterial Diseases, The importance of Bacteria; Bacteria, Growth and Reproduction; organisms which cause Disease; Disease Diagnosis and control; Bacterial Diseases of Dry Edible Beans in the Central High Plains'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789355940117
Publisher:	Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd.
Publication date:	06/30/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Mrityunjay Mohan Jha received his Master’s in Geography, M. Phil and Ph.D. in food security from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, besides receiving training in Geographic Information System from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing. He has worked in the areas of decentralized planning, natural resource management, social assessment and resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R). His expertise also includes imparting training in participatory rural appraisal and social impact assessment. He has been part of research/consultative group for Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, IFPRI South Asia, ADRF and World Bank. He received an Excellence Award for ‘people-centred work’ from the Centre for Land Use Management, Hyderabad in 2005. He is associated with the Intercontinental Consultants and Technocrats Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. He has three books and about a dozen research papers published.

R.B. Singh is presently Reader and Dy. Coordinator-UGC SAP in the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He has specialized in Environmental Studies, Disaster Management, Remote Sensing and GIS Technology. He has to his credit 26 research volumes/books and 145 research papers published in national and international journals. He is Secretary General, National Association of Geographers, India (NAGI) and is Steering Committee Member of the IGU Commission on LUCC since 1996. He is associated with four prestigious International collaborative research programmes such as ICSSR-IDPAD, CIDA-SICI, DFID and SHARP as Project Director.