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Professor Mahendra Rai is a Basic Science Research Faculty Fellow at Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University in Maharashtra, India. He has published more than 400 research publications, 100 popular articles in journals of high repute and 60 books from reputed publishers. He has received several prestigious awards, including the father T.A. Mathias award from the All-India Association for Christian Higher Education, and the Medini award from the Department of Environment and Forest, Government of India. He also received SERC visiting fellowship by Department of Science and Technology , INSA visiting fellowship by Indian National Science Academy and TWAS-UNESCO Associateship , Italy. Dr. Rai serves as a referee for more than 20 international journals and is associate editor/ member of editorial board of more than ten national and international journals. He has approximately three decades of teaching and research experience. The main focus of his research is nanobiotechnology and nano based bioactive against human pathogenic microbes. Ivan Kosalec, a tenured scientific advisor, holds a professorship at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry. Since Croatia’s accession to the EU (2013), he has served as a Croatian delegate to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in the HMPC Committee. He is also an external expert for the Croatian Medicines and Medical Devices Agency and a member of the interdisciplinary section of the Ministry of Health for Antibiotic Resistance Control (ISKRA). The main focus of his scientific work is in the field of virulence inhibition of medically important yeasts and determination of in vitro antimicrobial activity of compounds of synthetic and natural origin. He has published more than 100 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr Ivan Kosalec has participated in several European and national projects mainly dealing with the identification of microbial species and the antimicrobial activity of substances of different origins (nanomaterials, botanicals, de novo synthesised molecules, etc.). As an active referee, he is also a member of the international editorial board in three scientific journals (Molecules, Archives of Occupational Hygiene and Toxicology). Dr I. Kosalec received the Diploma – Distinction from Croatian Pharmaceutical Society in 2017. CONTENTS Foreword Preface Contributors Section I: General, Identity and Taxonomy 1. The genus Phoma: What we know and what we need to know? Mahendra Rai, Beata Zimowska, and Gyrgy Jnos Kvics 2. Taxonomical evaluation of Phoma- history of classification, current status and future directions. Beata Zimowska Section II: Diversity, Diseases and Host Range 3. Phoma on medicinal and aromatic plants Beata Zimowska 4. Diseases of fruits, tubers, and seeds caused by Phoma sensu lato species complex Graciela Dolores Avila-Quezada and Mahendra Rai 5. Overview of Phoma-like fungi on important legumes (Papilionaceous plants) Gyrgy J. Kvics, Lszl Irinyi, and Mahendra Rai 6. Diseases of vegetables caused by Phoma spp. Farjana Sultana and Md. Motaher Hossain 7. Phoma diseases: identification, epidemiology and strategies for management Omar Atik 8. Major plant diseases caused by Phoma sensu lato species and their integrated management strategies Fatemeh Salmaninezhad, Reza Mostowfizadeh-Ghalamfarsa, and Santa Olga Maria Cacciola 9. Phoma as an infectious pathogen in medical practice Elena V. Kukhar, and Vladimir S. Kiyan Section III: Secondary metabolites and Bioactivities 10. Fruitful decade of Phoma secondary metabolites from 2011 to 2020: Chemistry, chemical diversity and biological activities Hidayat Hussain, Elizbit, Iftikhar Ali, Nilufar Z. Mamadalieva, Ghulam Abbas, Maroof Ali, Gohar Zaman, Amjad Khan, Uzma Hassan, Ivan R. Green 11. Bioactive secondary metabolites from endophytic Phoma spp Pramod Kumar Mahish, Shweta Singh and Ravishankar Chauhan 12. The genus Phoma: a review of its potential bioactivities, implications and prospects Luciana Luft, Tssia C. Confortin, Izelmar Todero, Marcio A. Mazutti 13. Bioherbicidal activity of Phoma macrostoma Michelle Hubbard, Russell K. Hynes, Karen L. Bailey 14. New technologies for the formulation of secondary metabolites produced by Phoma sp. for biological control of weeds Jos R. C. Neto, Marcio A. Mazutti, Giovani L. Zabot, Maicon S. N. dos Santos and Marcus V. Tres 15. Biological management of plant diseases by non-pathogenic Phoma spp. Md. Motaher Hossain 16. Plant growth promoting Phoma spp. Mohsen Mohamed Elsharkawy Section IV:Nanotechnology and Fossil records of Phoma 17. Potential role of Phoma spp. for mycogenic synthesis of Silver nanoparticles Aniket Gade, Sudhir Shende and Mahendra Rai 18. In situ occurrence of Phomites Fritel in the phyllosphere of ancient Siwalik forests of eastern Himalaya during the Mio-Pleistocene Meghma Bera, Mahasin Ali Khan, Krishnendu Acharya, Arkamitra Vishnu (ne Mandal) and Subir Bera
