Pathogens, Vectors, and Plant Diseases
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Pathogens, Vectors, and Plant Diseases

Approaches to Control

  1. 322 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Pathogens, Vectors, and Plant Diseases

Approaches to Control

About this book

Pathogens, Vectors, and Plant Diseases: Approaches to Control is a collection of papers that discusses how vector host interactions, vector ecology, and disease epidemiology can be applied to disease prevention and control. The book deals with innovative strategies pertaining to control of vector-borne viruses and viral infections in plants. One paper discusses nonpesticidal control of vector-borne viruses including soil solarization that uses solar energy for crop protection, and insect sterilization through radiation, chemosterilants or genetic modifications. Another paper discusses chemicals that interfere with nucleic acid and protein synthesis; as these interactions pose no hazards to animal (mammals), the chemicals are suitable for controlling viral diseases. One author examines the use of oil sprays and reflective surfaces as a means of controlling plant viruses transmitted by insects. In the United States, the entry of vector-borne plant pathogens is controlled by plant quarantine. One author lists several ways in effective quarantine procedures, as well as, the safe importation of potential vectors as cultures. This book is suitable for environmentalists, biologists, conservationists, agriculturists, botanists, and researchers in botany and plant genealogy.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Pathogens, Vectors, and Plant Diseases: Approaches to Control
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1. Nonpesticidal Control of Vector-Borne Diseases
  8. Chapter 2. Chemotherapy of Plant Viruses and Virus Diseases
  9. Chapter 3. Control of Whitefly Vectors of Viruses by Color Mulches
  10. Chapter 4. Chemical Control of Nematode Vectors
  11. Chapter 5. Use of Oil Sprays and Reflective Surfaces for Control of Insect-Transmitted Plant Viruses
  12. Chapter 6. Controlling Seed and Insect-Borne Viruses
  13. Chapter 7. The Host as a Vector: Exclusion as a Control
  14. Chapter 8. Plant Quarantine Problems in Preventing the Entry into the United States of Vector-Borne Plant Pathogens
  15. Chapter 9. Nature of Inherited Nematode Resistance in Plants
  16. Chapter 10. Aphid Probing and Feeding, Electronic Monitoring, and Plant Breeding
  17. Chapter 11. The ESS of an Aphid Pathosystem
  18. Chapter 12. Control of Vector-Borne Mycoplasmas
  19. Index