Chapter- 7 Pathology

• Diagnosis of pests and diseases of field crops, vegetables, orchard and plantation crops and their economic importance. 

• Classification of pests and their management.
• Classification of diseases  and their management.

1. Banana diseases 
2. Tea- blister blight

• Integrated pest and disease management. 
• Storage pests and their management. 
• Biological control of pests and diseases. 
• Epidemiology and forecasting of major crop pests and diseases. 
• Plant quarantine measures. 
• Pesticides, their formulation
• Pesticides modes of action.

1. nuerotoxin
2. insect growth regulator (juvenile harmone)
3. behaviour modifier (pheromone)