Disease control in crops : biological and environmentally-friendly approaches
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK ; Ames, Iowa :
Wiley-Blackwell ,
2009
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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