Plant Bacteriology
Wezelman, T
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Plant Bacteriology
Wezelman, T
Información del libro
Bacteria as plant pathogens can cause severe economically damaging diseases, ranging from spots, mosaic patterns or pustules on leaves and fruits, or smelly tuber rots to plant death. The book contains chapters on plant pathogens and their control management, i.e. introduction, history and importance of plant bacteriology, bacterial plant pathogens and symptomatology, mycology, soil-borne plant pathogens, classification, identification and pathogenicity of bacteria associated with panicle blight in rice, abiotic disorders in plants, vascular wilts, resistance to bacterial pathogens in plants, endophytes, method of breeding for disease resistance, systemic movement of viruses via the plant phloem, roles of cis-acting elements in translation of viral RNAs, fungus foliage diseases of soybeans, bacterial fruit blotch, pepper and tomato bacterial spot, blackleg of potato, soil-borne wheat mosaic virus, corn pest management, sorghum pest management, disease management in chickpeas, plant diseases and their control measures.This book will serve as a comprehensive resource for students, teachers, researchers, epidemiologists, diagnosticians extension, specialists and plant pathologists.