Integrated management of diseases caused by fungi, phytoplasma and bacteria / edited by A. Ciancio and K.G. Mukerji.
"This volume focuses on integrated pest and disease management (IPM/IDM) and biocontrol of some key diseases of perennial and annual crops. It continues a series originated during a visit of prof. K. G. Mukerji to the CNR Plant Protection Institute in Bari (Italy), in November 2005. Both editor...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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[Dordrecht] :
Springer,
[2008]
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| Series: | Integrated management of plant pests and diseases ;
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | "This volume focuses on integrated pest and disease management (IPM/IDM) and biocontrol of some key diseases of perennial and annual crops. It continues a series originated during a visit of prof. K. G. Mukerji to the CNR Plant Protection Institute in Bari (Italy), in November 2005. Both editors aim at a series of five volumes embracing, in a multi-disciplinary approach, advances and achievements in the practice of crop protection, for a wide range of plant parasites and pathogens. Two volumes of the series were already produced, dedicated to general concepts in IPM and to management and biocontrol of nematodes of grain crops and vegetables. This Volume deals, in particular, with diseases due to bacteria, phytoplasma and fungi. Every day, in any agroecosystem, farmers face problems related to plant diseases. Since the beginning of agriculture, indeed, and probably for a long time in the future, farmers will continue to do so. Every year, plant diseases cause severe losses in the global production of food and other agricultural commodities, worldwide. Plant diseases are not limited to episodic events occurring in single farms or crops, and should not be regarded as single independent cases, affecting only farms on a local scale. The impact of plant disease epidemics on food shortage ignited, in the last two centuries, deep cultural, social and demographic changes, affecting million human beings, through i. e. migration, death and hunger."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 419 pages) : illustrations, maps. Also available on the Internet. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1402085702 9781402085703 1281861510 9781281861511 1402085710 9781402085710 |