Phytobacteriology : principles and practice /
This book comprises 7 chapters discussing phytobacteriology. Chapter 1 outlines the history and science of bacteriology Chapter 2 explains the characterization, identification and naming of bacteria. Chapter 3 explains how bacteria cause disease and how plants react to them. Chapter 4 discusses the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA :
CABI Pub.,
©2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book comprises 7 chapters discussing phytobacteriology. Chapter 1 outlines the history and science of bacteriology Chapter 2 explains the characterization, identification and naming of bacteria. Chapter 3 explains how bacteria cause disease and how plants react to them. Chapter 4 discusses the epidemiology of bacterial diseases. The economic importance of bacterial diseases and the strategies for controlling these and reducing crop losses are discussed in chapters 5 and 6. Chapter 7 presents 50 examples of plant pathogenic bacteria and the corresponding plant diseases. The annexes include: lists of plant pathogenic bacteria and their hosts; list of phytoplasmas; diversity of Ralstonia solanacearum and schemes for detection of potato ring and brown rot; and EU schemes for detecting and identifying R. solanacearum on potato. This book contains an index of terms. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 360 pages) : color illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-332) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781845930356 1845930355 |