Bacterial diseases are of great economic concern, and their importance in overall losses caused by various other pathogens, such as fungi and viruses, is often undermined in developing countries. The book contains 24 chapters featuring bacterial diseases of individual crops and providing amazing characterization of the diseases. It also includes information on bacterial diseases that appear on different crops the world, thereby making the content of interest to plant pathologists around the world. The bacterial diseases are widespread and are difficult to identify and to control. Few pesticides are available for use in control, many plant pathologists are not well trained in the management of bacterial diseases. Bacterial Diseases of Plants offers concise information on bacterial diseases of crops, proving a valuable asset to students, scientists in industry and academia, farmers, extension workers, those who deal with crops that are vulnerable to bacterial diseases.

Dr. Vimla Singh completed her Ph. D in Botany in the year 2003 from Deen Dayal Upadhayay Gorakhpur University Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. She is presently serving as Assistant Botanist in Department of Botany & Plant Physiology at CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana). She has been awarded Young Scientist Fellowship (2010) and Women scientist Fellowship (under WOS-A) for year 2014 & 2018. She has worked as Post doctoral fellow in IARI, NBPGR & IIMR, New Delhi, and IIWBR at Karnal. Dr. Singh is a Botanist and has interest in multifaceted aspects of plant sciences. She has expertise on plant disease diagnosis, disease management and molecular mechanisms in pathogenesis, role of fungal double stranded RNAs and Plasmids in regulating the host pathogen interactions. Currently she is investigating phytobiome mediated resistance against Rhizoctonia diseases in maize. Dr. Singh has published more than 30 papers in reputed Journals; 4 Book chapters, 3 books and several popular articles. She is also editorial board member for some National Journals.