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AcknowledgmentsThe authors are grateful to Dr. Carmen Nieves Mortensen, Associate Professor, andMr. S.E. Albrechtsen, former Associate Professor at the Danish Government Instituteof Seed Pathology for Developing Countries, Copenhagen, for perusing Chapters 6(Seed Infection by Bacteria) and 7 (Seed Infection by Viruses), respectively, andmaking critical comments and suggestions. We thank Prof. Thomas W. Carroll,Department of Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, U.S.A., andDr. Andy J. Maule, Department of Virology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, U.K., forproviding literature on viruses.We wish to thank the publishers and executives of journals and books, andindividuals for granting permission to reproduce figures from their publications. Dueacknowledgment has been made for such figures. Special thanks are due to thefollowing individuals for providing photographs from their files: Prof. Rolland R.Dute, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama; Prof. S.V. Thomson, Utah State University,Logan; Prof. A.M. Alvarez, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Dr. A. Halfon-Meiri, The Volcani Centre, Bet Dagan, Israel; Dr. M.J. Christey, Christchurch, NewZealand; and Dr. Eigil de Neergaard, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University,Copenhagen, Denmark.We thank Ms. Anette Højbjerg Hansen for her patience during the computertyping of the manuscript and Mr. Magdi El-din Ragab for his skillful cooperationin arranging the figures. We thank Ms. Henriette Westh for processing the finalmanuscript for submission.Dalbir Singh is grateful to the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) forsupporting his visits to the Institute of Seed Pathology in Denmark for planning andwriting the book. He is grateful to his colleagues at the Department of Botany,University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, for their interest and cooperation and to all hisresearch collaborators for their cooperation and for allowing him free use of theircontributions. He is especially thankful to Prof. Tribhuwan Singh, University ofRajasthan, Jaipur, and Dr. Kailash Agarwal, Agarwal College, Jaipur, for usefuldiscussions and for improving some of the figures used in the book. The gracioushelp of Dr. Dileep Kumar during the entire period of manuscript preparation isgratefully acknowledged. Thanks are also due to Shri Rajesh Benara for typing themanuscript, and to Shri Mehar Chand and Shri Ankur at Jaipur for help withillustrations.Dalbir Singh expresses his deep gratitude to his wife, Prem Singh, and hischildren — Nidhi, Smita and Mayank — for their patience and cooperation whilehe was engaged in writing the book.