Disease control in crops : biological and environmentally-friendly approaches

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walters, Dale (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell , 2009
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Managing crop disease through cultural practices
  • 3. Biological control agents in plant disease control
  • 4. Induced resistance for plant disease control
  • 5. The use of compost and compost extracts in plant disease control
  • 6. The use of host plant resistance in disease control
  • 7. Crop tolerance of foliar pathogens: possible mechanisms and potential for exploitation
  • 8. Plant disease control through the use variety mixtures
  • 9. Biofumigationfor plant disease control - from the fundamentals to the farming system
  • 10. Control of plant disease through soil solarization
  • 11. Plant disease control by nutrient management: sulphur
  • 12. Control of plant disease by disguising the leaf surface
  • 13. bacteriophages as agents for the control of plant pathogenic bacteria
  • 14. Controlling plant disease using biological and environmentally friendly approaches: making it work in practice