This encyclopaedia provides clear and lucid definitions of terms associated with all aspects of food technology and various aspects of food science such as a nutrition, diets, food values, different types of foods and various processing techniques. This volume is perfect guide for those studying Food Technology, either at university level or anyone interested in Food technology, such as consumers, cooks, food manufacturers, sales- people or students, who must understand, interpret, and communicate information to others. It provides a comprehensive coverage of Food technology.

The aim of this encyclopaedia is to provide teachers, students and laymen interested in Food technology with clear, concise, and correct definitions and descriptions of the Food technology terms, throughout.

Plants play an important role in our life. Man's life is always influenced by plants around him. So Phytopathology gains an important part in science. The aim of this book is to provide a general overview of the field in most effective and positive manner. It is designed to meet the needs of all students of all ages. Chapters are largely independent so that the teacher may choose the desired topic. The level of presentation will be comfortable for teachers as well as students. Various diseases of fungi (mycology) have been described in detail. Their causes, classification, method of propagation, and their treatment have been described in detail. Various classes of fungi and their diseases have been discussed in different chapters, so that student does not have any problem in identifying and studying various topics.

Plant Pathology or Phytopathology is a very important, economically; a most useful branch of biological sciences. It has a long history. Since early ages man has tried to grow food and improve the quality of food producing plants. Plant plays an important role in our life. The aim of this book is to provide a general overview of the field in most effective and positive manner. It is designed to meet the needs of all students. Chapters are largely independent so that the teacher may choose the desired topic. The level of presentation will be comfortable to teacher as well as student.

Various topics have been described in semi-technical language. The descriptions have been supported with several illustrations.

Literally, embryology is the study of embryos, where embryo denotes the juvenile stage, either within the egg-shall, egg membranes or in the mother's womb. In the development stage, the embryo undergoes a number of changes. The changes occur not only in the body of the larva but also in habit or behaviour also. It is due to these dramatic changes that embryology has now been termed 'Development Biology' preferably.

Metamorphosis, embryonic induction, embryonic nutrition, regeneration, cleavage, parthenogenesis (development of egg without fertilization), gametogenesis and fertilization are few of numerous other points of study under embryology. The present encyclopaedic work would cater to the maximum requirements of the bio-enthusiasts.