The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Cooke, B. Michael. (Editor ), Jones, D. Gareth. (Editor ), Kaye, Bernard. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:2nd ed. 2006.
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4581-6
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.