The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases
Plant disease epidemiology is a dynamic science that forms an essential part of the study of plant pathology. This book brings together a team of 35 international experts. Each chapter deals with an essential component of the subject and allows the reader to fully understand how each exerts its infl...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2006.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. 2006. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Principles and Methods
- Plant disease diagnosis
- Disease assessment and yield loss
- Surveys of variation in virulence and fungicide resistance and their application to disease control
- Infection strategies of plant parasitic fungi
- Epidemiological consequences of plant disease resistance
- Dispersal of foliar plant pathogens: mechanisms, gradients and spatial patterns
- Pathogen population dynamics
- Modelling and interpreting disease progress in time
- Disease forecasting
- Diversification strategies
- Epidemiology in sustainable systems
- Information technology in plant disease epidemiology
- Case Examples
- Seedborne diseases
- Diseases caused by soil-borne pathogens
- Wind-dispersed diseases
- Environmental biophysics applied to the dispersal of fungal spores by rain-splash
- Potato late blight
- Apple scab: role of environment in pathogen and epidemic development
- Onion diseases
- The recent epidemic of cassava mosaic virus disease in Uganda.