Contents: 1. Polygalacturonase inhibiting proteins: Titanic players in Plant Immunity/Praveen Mamidala, Guguloth Mahesh Kumarand Appa Rao Podile. 2. Host-Pathogen interactions – Biochemical and Molecular insights to defense responses in plants with specail reference to Pearl Millet Downy Mildew/S. Niranjan-Raj, S. N. Lavanya, K. N. Amruthesh, S. R. Niranjana, and H. S. Shetty. 3. Molecular identification, recognition, cell defense responses and Agricultural importance of AM Fungi/B.N. Chakraborty and U. Chakraborty. 4. Contributions to our understanding of Pathogen Diversity and Management of Rice Diseases in India/Samuel S. Gnanamanickam. 5. Managing Plant Diseases in Organic Farming/Anju Bala, T.S. Thind, S. Gowswami and S. Raheja. 6. Pearl Millet Downy Mildew: Challenges and Prospects/Arun Kumar, V.K. Manga, H.N. Gour and A.K. Purohit. 7. Incidence and Toxicology of Deoxynivalenol/Shilpa Penugonda, S. Girisham and S.M. Reddy. 8. Biodiversity, Taxonomy and Significance of aquatic conidial Fungi/C. Manoharachary and I.K. Kunwar. 9. Fresh Water Moulds: Occurrence, Distribution, Seasonality and Zoospore Release Mechanism/R.V. Gandhe and Kanchanganga Gandhe. 10. Biodiversity of Dermatophytes : An Overview/ Kamal Rai Aneja, Radhika Joshi, Chetan Sharma, Parveen Surain and Ashish Aneja. 11. Exploring Different Avenues Of Trichoderma As A Potent Bio-Fungicidal And Plant Growth Promoting Candidate-An Overview/H.B. Singh, Brahma N. Singh, S.P. Singh and B.K. Sarma. 12. Agrobacterium tumefaciens – Practical Implications in Agriculture/Anju Bala , T.S. Thind, S. Gowswami and S. Raheja. 13. Role of Pseudomonads in Plant Disease Control/K.V.B.R. Tilak and G. Bagyanarayana. 14. Plant Diseases and Changing Ways of their Management/K. Muralidharan and P. Raghu. 15. Herbicidal Potential of Soil Microflora: Current Status and Future Prospects/A.K. Pandey, Rekha Shukla, Divya Bajpai, Mithilesh Jaiswal Nikita Benerjee and Sneha Pandey. 16. Foot Rot and Bakanae of Rice: An Overview/Ram Singh and S. Sunder. 17. Integrated Management of Parthenium hysterophorus L. (Asteraceae): A Weed of Worldwide Significance/ Puja Ray and H N Gour. 18. Soil Invading Nematodes in Ecosystem Vis-a-Is Soil Health/S.P. Tiwari, M.N. Khare, Subhash Bhargava and H.N. Gour. 19. Yeshwant Laxman Nene: Pioneer Leader of Plant Pathology/S.J. Kolte. 20. Mycotoxicity associated with dried medicinal plants in storage – A potential threat to consumers/Anju Koul, Seema Sharma and Geeta Sumbali.