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nematode management- concepts and applications.
VI. Practical
•
In-vitro 
screening of synthetic chemicals and plant products for nematicidal activity,
and their application methods;
• Methods for screening of crop germplasm for resistance against nematodes,
laboratory exercises on biocontrol potential of fungal, bacterial parasites, and
predacious fungi and nematodes.
VII. Suggested Reading
Bhatti DS and Walia RK. 1994. 
Nematode Pest Management in Crops
. CBS, New Delhi.
Brown GL. 1977. 
The Nematode Destroying Fungi
. CBP, Guelph.
Brown RH and Kerry BR. 1987. 
Principles and Practice of Nematode Control in Crops
. Academic
Press, Sydney.
Chen ZX, Chen SY and Dickson DW. 2004. 
Nematology: Advances and Perspectives. Vol. II:
Nematode Management and Utilization. 
CABI, Wallingford.
Perry RN and Moens M. 2013. 
Plant Nematology
. 2
nd
Ed., CABI, Wallingford, London.
Starr JL, Cook R and Bridge J. 2002. 
Plant Resistance to Parasitic Nematodes. 
CABI, Wallingford.
Stirling GR. 2014. 
Biological Control of Plant parasitic Nematodes,
2nd Ed., CAB International,
UK.
Whitehead AG. 1997. 
Plant Nematode Control
. CABI, Wallingford.
I. Course Title
: Beneficial Nematodes
II. Course Code
: NEMA 511
III. Credit Hours
: 1+1
IV. Aim of the course
To sensitize about the use of nematodes for the biological control of insect pests of
crops, and application of some nematodes as biological models and as indicators of
environmental pollution.
V. Theory
Unit I
Beneficial nematode fauna – predators, parasites of insects, molluscs and other
pests; Entomophilic nematodes- important groups, types of nematode- insect
associations; taxonomic characteristics of nematode parasites of insects.