Cercosporoid Fungi of India

Cercosporoid fungi constitute a heterogeneous assemblage of Demataceous Hyphomycetes, most of which have Mycosphaerel/a as the teleomorph. Members of this complex are important plant pathogens and are responsible for severe economic losses. These are mostly foliar in nature, producing spots but in case of herbaceous plants, they can attack almost all aerial parts of the plants. As hyper-parasites to other plant pathogenic fungi and some of these are being employed as bio-control agents of weeds. The book provides an up-to-date discussion of Cercosporoid fungi occurring in India; their identity, as determined in consonance with current taxonomic concepts involving morphological and molecular parameters. In addition to descriptions and illustrations of certain new taxa of species level, taxonomic decisions have been taken leading to recombination's, new nomenclatures and synonymy. Distributions of these fungi in India (indicating places and provinces) have been given.