Phytopathogenic Bacteria: An Imminent Threat to Sustainable Food Production

The field of Plant Bacteriology/Phytobacteriology is rapidly advancing and changing due to recent advances in genomics and molecular plant bacteriology as well as global spread of bacterial plant diseases and emergence of new bacterial plant pathogens.So, there is a need to integrate understanding of bacterial taxonomy, genomics and basic plant bacteriology that reflects state of the art knowledge about plant-disease mechanisms.In the present book, first eight chapters contain general information about bacteria, classification of plant pathogenic bacteria and molecular mechanisms of virulence and pathogenesis of phytopathogenic bacteria.The book contains description of 62 specific bacterial diseases of plants.Some of the described diseases, namely, bacterial blight of rice, wilt of solanaceous plants, soft rot of fleshy fruits and vegetables, citrus canker, citrus huanglongbing etc. are of international importance and cause huge economic losses to the mankind. · Contains latest and upd