MAJOR
SUBJECT GROUP - ENTOMOLOGY AND NEMATOLOGY
Sub-Subjects:
·
Agricultural/
Horticultural Entomology,
·
Nematology,
·
Apiculture,
·
Sericulture,
·
Plant
Protection.
Syllabus:
1. 1. Importance
of Agriculture in national economy; basic principles of crop production;
cultivation of rice, wheat, chickpea, pigeon-pea, sugarcane, groundnut, tomato,
cole crops, mango, grapes, banana, oilseeds other than groundnut, soybean and
mustard. Major soils of India, role of NPK and their deficiency symptoms.
Mendelian genetics; elementary knowledge of photosynthesis; respiration, and
transpiration; Major cropping systems (ricewheat cropping, crop rotations,
mixed cropping); soil degradation-soil salinity and acidity and management;
some aspects of post-harvest technology; varietal improvement; importance of
Heterosis in crop production; crop protection principles in field and storage.
Major insect pests and diseases of agricultural crops like rice, cotton,
pulses, oilseed crops like groundnut, soybean and mustard, vegetables like
tomato, cole crops; fruit crops like mango and banana and their management
principles. Transgenic crops. Important rural development programmes in India;
organizational set up of agricultural research, education and extension in
India; Elements of statistics.
2. 2. Classification
of animal kingdom up to class; distinguishing characters up to orders in class
Insecta; general organization of an insect external morphology with special reference
to lepidopteran larvae, coleopteran adults; and honeybee; metamorphosis and
moulting; different physiological systems; insect- plant relationship; insect
pests of agricultural and horticultural crops, and their stored/processed
products, insect vectors of plant diseases- identification, biology, nature of
damage, and their management tactics; and pests of household, medical and
veterinary importance and their control; useful and beneficial insects like
honeybee, lac insect, silkworm and pollinators; Nematode taxonomy, biology of
important plant parasitic nematodes and their control; entomopathogenic
nematodes, basic principles of insect and nematode pest management-cultural,
biological, insecticidal, quarantine, and regulatory aspects; insecticide classification
and insecticide resistance management; and insect protective transgenic
crops.
PREPARATION
STRATAGY
Text books
1.
Entomology
treatise - T. V. Prasad
2.
Applied
entomology –D.S.Reddy
3.
Elements
of economic entomology – B. Vasanth Raj David and V.V.Ramamurthy
4.
Insecta
an introduction - K.N. Ragumoorthi , V. Balasubranani, M.R. Srinivasan and
N.Natarajan
5. Principles
of applied entomology - K.N. Ragumoorthi , V. Balasubranani, M.R. Srinivasan
and N.Natarajan
6.
Introductory
plant nematology –Raman K. Walia and Bajaj
7.
Nematology
fundamentals and applications – Jonathan
Objective books:
1.
Objective
entomology – T. V. Prasad
2.
Objective
agricultural entomology on competitive view- Dr. Shravan M. Haldhar
3.
Objective
entomology and nematology –S.V. Sai Prasad, V.Sridhar, S.N.Sushil and
R.S.Shukla
4.
Plant
Nematlogy at a glance – B. Manjunath and N. Srinivas
5.
Entomology
refresher –K. Phanikumar and C.P. Vijji
Complied by:
A.
Sravika
M.
Sc Ag, Entomology
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