Vegetable
Diseases
- A Colour Handbook
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Hardcover,
320 pages
261
x 194 mm page size
444
colour illustrations
5
tables
ISBN:
978-1-84076-075-0
Price £95.00
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Steven
T. Koike
Plant Pathology Department, University of California, USA.
Peter Gladders
ADAS Boxworth, Cambridge, UK.
Albert O. Paulus
Plant Pathology Department, University of California, USA.
Our dependence on healthy vegetable crops as a reliable source of
food transcends all barriers of nation and culture. Consumers now
demand excellent quality from the industry that produces large volumes
of high quality vegetables to be sold locally, regionally and shipped
internationally. The diseases that affect vegetables compromise such
quality and therefore are of great importance to grower, shipper,
marketer, and consumer.
This book focuses primarily on diseases that are caused by pathogens.
Chapters dealing with the general principles of the causes, diagnosis
and control of vegetable crop diseases are followed by crop-based
chapters. Each disease entry includes a brief introduction to the
disease, detailed description of disease symptoms, information on
the pathogen and disease development, and suggestions on how to manage
the problem. Top quality colour photos illustrate the book throughout.
This book will be useful to a range of professionals including research
and extension plant pathologists; diagnosticians and plant lab personnel;
teachers of agriculture and related subjects; university students
in agriculture and related fields; commercial farmers, vegetable producers,
and farm managers; agriculturalists in the fields of seed production,
vegetable breeding, agrichemicals, pest control, marketing, and other
subjects; government and regulatory persons dealing with agriculture;
serious gardeners and hobbyists.
Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction to Vegetable Crops, Chapter
2: Causes of Plant Diseases, Chapter 3: Diagnosing Diseases of Vegetables
and Other Crops, Chapter 4: Controlling Vegetable Crop Diseases, Chapter
5: Diseases of Vegetable Crops, Alliums (onion, garlic, leek, chives),
Apiaceae (carrot, celery, parsnip, parsley), Asparagus, Beet, Crucifers
(broccoli, brussel sprout, cabbage, cauliflower, radish, swede), Cucurbits
(cucumber, melon, pumpkin, squash), Legumes (faba bean, pea, bean),
Lettuce, Pepper, Spinach, Tomato, Specialty and Herb Crops (artichoke,
arugula, basil, broccoli raab, catnip, chervil, cilantro, corn salad,
dill, endive, fennel, horse-radish, Jerusalem artichoke, lemongrass,
marjoram, mint, mustards, oregano, radicchio, rhubarb, sage, salsify,
sweet corn, swiss chard, tomatillo, watercress), Glossary, Index.
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Key Features:
Coverage includes:
Introduction & significance Symptoms & diagnostic features Causal agent
Control
Crop based organisation for easy diagnosis.
Highest quality colour photos
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