Plant Pathologists' Pocketbook

✍ Scribed by J M Waller, J M LennA©, S Waller

• Publisher: CABI
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 527
• Edition: Third
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This essential handbook for advanced student and practising plant pathologists has been thoroughly reorganised and updated since publication of the second edition in 1983. New features include the rearrangement of topics to facilitate use, and 44 short succinct chapters, each providing valuable and practical information. There are several new chapter topics and five overall sections covering disease recognition and evaluation, causation, diagnosis and investigation as well as disease management and general techniques and information.

✦ Table of Contents

Contributors......Page 9
Preface to the 3rd Edition......Page 11
1 Landmarks in Plant Pathology......Page 12
2 Some Major Plant Diseases......Page 15
3 Surveys and Sampling......Page 30
4 Disease and Yield Loss Assessment......Page 36
5 Postharvest Diseases......Page 50
6 General Bibliography of Plant Pathology......Page 66
7 Bibliography of Crop and Plant Diseases......Page 71
8 Collection and Dispatch of Plant Material......Page 83
9 Fungi as Plant Pathogens......Page 86
10 Bacteria and Plant Disease......Page 105
11 Virus Diseases......Page 119
12 Phytoplasma Plant Pathogens......Page 137
13 Plant Parasitic Nematodes......Page 151
14 Insect and Other Arthropod Pests......Page 174
15 Weeds......Page 186
16 Parasitic Higher Plants......Page 194
17 Non-infectious Disorders......Page 201
18 Air Pollution Effects and Injury......Page 206
19 Effects of Climate Change......Page 214
20 Detection and Isolation of Fungal and Bacterial Pathogens......Page 219
21 Microscopy......Page 227
22 Immunological Techniques......Page 232
23 Biochemical and Molecular Techniques......Page 240
24 Inoculation......Page 256
25 Epidemic Modelling and Disease Forecasting......Page 263
26 Design of Experiments......Page 277
27 Plant Health and Quarantine......Page 290
28 Regional and Country Lists of Plant Diseases......Page 298
29 Seed Health......Page 320
30 Cultural Control......Page 329
31 Disease Resistance......Page 339
32 Fungicides......Page 347
33 The Application of Chemicals for Plant Disease Control......Page 356
34 Biological Control of Fungal Plant Pathogens......Page 365
35 Plant Pathogens for Biological Control of Weeds......Page 377
36 Safety in the Laboratory......Page 390
37 Culturing, Preservation and Maintenance of Fungi......Page 395
38 Mycological Media and Methods......Page 421
39 Photography......Page 443
40 Standards and Measurements......Page 457
41 Publication......Page 465
42 Electronic Databases and Information Technology in Plant Pathology......Page 472
43 Glossary of Plant Pathological Terms......Page 481
44 Useful Addresses......Page 498
General Index......Page 502
Diseases and Pathogens Index......Page 516