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VIII. Suggested Reading
Ali S. 1965. 
The Book of Indian Birds
. The Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay.
Fitzwater WD and Prakash I. 1989. 
Handbook of Vertebrate Pest Control.
ICAR, New Delhi.
Prakash I and Ghosh PK. 1997. 
Rodents in Indian Agriculture
. Vol. I. State of Art Scientific
Publ., Jodhpur.
Prakash I and Ghosh RP. 1987. 
Management of Rodent Pests. 
ICAR, New Delhi.
Prater SH. 1971. 
The Book of Indian Animals
. The Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay.
Rahman A. 2020. 
Protective and Productive Entomology 
Narendra Publishing House, New Delhi
I. Course Title
: Techniques in Plant Protection
II. Course Code
: ENT 515
III. Credit Hours
: 1 (0+1)
IV. Aim of the course
To acquaint the students with appropriate use of plant protection equipments and
techniques related to microscopy, computation, pest forecasting, etc.
V. Practical
• Pest control equipments, principles, operation, maintenance, selection, and

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application of pesticides;
• Release of bio-control agents;
• Seed dressing, soaking, root-dip treatment, dusting, spraying, and pesticide
application through irrigation water;
• Application of drones in plant protection;
• Soil sterilization, solarization, deep ploughing, flooding, techniques to check the
spread of pests through seed, bulbs, corms, cuttings and cut flowers;
• Uses of light, transmission and scanning electron microscopy;
• Protein isolation from the pest and host plant and its quantification using
spectrophotometer and molecular weight determination using SDS/ PAGE;
• Use of tissue culture techniques in plant protection;
• Computer application for predicting/ forecasting pest attack and identification.