ACLS Humanities E-Book

Review of ACLS Humanities E-Book, Reviewed October 2020 by Simine Waliyar Marine, Acquisitions/Systems Librarian Architectural Association Library [email protected]

Diseases of Edible Oilseed Crops

Diseases of Edible Oilseed Crops presents an unprecedentedly thorough collection of information on the diseases of cultivated annual oilseed crops, including peanut, rapeseed-mustard, sesame, soybean, sunflower, and safflower. Written by internationally recognized researchers, this book covers and integrates worldwide literature in the field up to 2014, setting it apart from other books that are only of regional importance. The book focuses on major diseases of economic importance to each crop. Each chapter is devoted to a type of crop and a profile of affecting diseases according to geographical occurrence, epidemiology, symptoms, causal pathogens, host-pathogen interactions, biotechnological aspects, and the latest approaches to understanding host-pathogen interactions. It also includes discussions on developments on controversial subjects in research in order to stimulate thinking and further conversation with an eye toward improvements and resolutions. Research on oilseed crop diseases has expanded tremendously in the past 30 years, primarily as an effort to reduce losses to various stresses, including crop diseases. In the war against hunger and malnutrition, it is necessary to enhance and update knowledge about crop diseases and managing them. By compiling decades of information from previously scattered research into a single globally minded volume, Diseases of Edible Oilseed Crops provides these much-needed updates and enhancements

An Overview of Research on the Management of Aflatoxin Contamination of Groundnut

Aflatoxin contamination of groundnut is one of the most important constraints to groundnut production in many countries. It is also of significance in relation to public health and exports (Pettit et al. 1989, Waliyar 1978 and 1990, Wynne et al. 1991). Most countries/institutions give high priority to research on the groundnut af- latoxin problem. Many national agricultural research systems (NARS) in Asia and Africa are faced w i t h this problem because of the difficulty in reducing aflatoxin contamination in groundnuts and groundnut products to an acceptable level for export. The concept of Aflatoxin Working Groups for Asia and Africa will help us to arrive at a better understanding of the actual research orientation of the activities of ICRISAT/NARS in Asia and Africa. This paper gives an overview of aflatoxin research worldwide to allow for better planning of ICRISAT's future activities w i t h NARS partners. A complete review and literature database on the groundnut aflatoxin problem is available at ICRISAT (Mehan et al. 1991)

ELISA: An Inexpensive and highly precise tools for estimation of aflatoxins

Agricultural products are often at risk of fungal invasion that can produce toxic metabolites called “mycotoxins”. Aflatoxins:Among these, aflatoxins are of economic importance because of their influence on the health of human beings and livestock, and on the marketability of agricultural products. It is essential to analyze food products to ensure their safety. In most developing countries limited or no facilities exist for monitoring these toxins in foods and feeds. They are based on physicochemical methods such as thin layer chromatography (TLC), and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). However, these are very expensive and may not be available everywhere..

Management of Aflatoxins in groundnut in Southern India

Aflatoxin contamination of groundnut is one of the most important quality constraints in the semi-arid tropics. The economic implications of aflatoxin problem and its' potential health threat to human/animals have clearly created a need to eliminate or at least control or minimize aflatoxin contamination of food and feed. The aflatoxins producing fungi.........

Resistance of Groundnut Varieties to Aspergillus flavus in Senegal

In four rainy seasons (1977-1980) 40 groundnut genotypes were screened for field resistance to Aspergillus flavus. Significant varietal differences were observed at harvest in levels of seed infestation by A. flavus. Field resistances were positively correlated with previously measured resistance to in vitro seed colonization by A. flavus in laboratory inoculation tests. The commercial variety 55-437 had high levels of resistance to A. flavus while two other varieties 73-30 and 73-33 also grown in Senegal had moderate levels of resistance. Genotypes with seed resistance to A. flavus had a lower proportion of A. flavus in their rhizosphere mycoflorae than had genotypes susceptible to seed invasion by this fungus