The Role of Plant Pathology in Food Safety and Food Security

This book views the vulnerability of our crops in general to devastating diseases as well as specifically the disease problems of two important staples, rice and cassava. Increased travel and increased transport of plant material throughout the world pose ever more significant risks to the health of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Strange, R.N (Editor ), Gullino, Maria Lodovica (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edición:1st ed. 2010.
Colección:Plant Pathology in the 21st Century, 3
Temas:
Plant diseases.
Agriculture.
Food science.
Botany.
Bioinformatics.
Plant Pathology.
Food Science.
Plant Science.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Role of Plant Pathology in Food Safety and Food Security
  • Plant Diseases and the World's Dependence on Rice
  • Development of Appropriate Strategies to Control Cassava Diseases in Ghana
  • Biosecurity in the Movement of Commodities as a Component of Global Food Security
  • Global Food Security
  • ISPP and the Challenge of Food Security
  • Globalisation and the Threat to Biosecurity
  • Genetic Modification (GM) as a New Tool in the Resistance Toolbox
  • The Role of Plant Pathology and Biotechnology in Food Security in Africa
  • Mycotoxins
  • The Secondary Metabolite Toxin, Sirodesmin PL, and Its Role in Virulence of the Blackleg Fungus
  • Biological and Chemical Complexity of Fusarium proliferatum
  • Biosecurity and Quarantine
  • Bioterrorism: A Threat to Plant Biosecurity?
  • The Revised International Plant Protection Convention - a New Context for Plant Quarantine
  • Pest Risk Analysis as Applied to Plant Pathogens.

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