Author: Howard Samuel Fawcett
Publisher:
Published: 1936
Total Pages: 710
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →General considerations; Root and trunk diseases; Diseases of branches, twigs, and leaves; Fruit diseases.
Author: S.A.M.H. Naqvi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-05-08
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13: 1402026072
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Among the Horticultural Crops, Fruits and Vegetables (FV) are of primary - portance as the key source of essential components in an adequate and balanced human diet. FV have supported largely the daily food requirement of mankind since ages and even before man learned to grow cereal crops systematically. Over the years, growing FV has been the mainstay of rural economy and has emerged as an indispensable part of agriculture world over, offering farmers a wide range of crops in varied topography and climate. In certain parts of the world, FV are the major dietary staple. Apart from being a rich source of vitamins and minerals, this sector also contributes significantly in economy of the region or the nation. The increased income from per unit area of FV is far ahead and can not be compared with that of cereal crops. A recent survey by the Economist revealed that the world population has - creased by 90 % in the past 40 years while food production has increased only by 25 % per head. With an additional 1. 5 billion mouth to feed by 2020, farmers worldwide have to produce 39 % more. Looking at the load of the future food requirement, the global increased production of FV during last few years has absorbed the additional food requirement and accordingly the eating habits are also changing and shifting - wards more consumption of these commodities worldwide.
Author: Aurelio Ciancio
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-08-19
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 1402085710
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2010-04-15
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0309153352
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Citrus greening, a disease that reduces yield, compromises the flavor, color, and size of citrus fruit and eventually kills the citrus tree, is now present in all 34 Floridian citrus-producing counties. Caused by an insect-spread bacterial infection, the disease reduced citrus production in 2008 by several percent and continues to spread, threatening the existence of Florida's $9.3 billion citrus industry. A successful citrus greening response will focus on earlier detection of diseased trees, so that these sources of new infections can be removed more quickly, and on new methods to control the insects that carry the bacteria. In the longerterm, technologies such as genomics could be used to develop new citrus strains that are resistant to both the bacteria and the insect.
Author: Lavern Wayne Timmer
Publisher: American Phytopathological Society
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Citrus Health Management is designed to aid in developing a successful citrus health program. Management practices cover soil and water, diseases, pests, and weeds, as well as economic, environmental, mechanical, and chemical management issues. This book presents a holistic approach to citrus health management for growers and their advisors. Following the detailed management methods explained in Citrus Health Management will help you produce healthy and profitable citrus crops.
Author: Lavern Wayne Timmer
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covers the extensive progress made in citrus disease studies since the publication of the first popular edition 12 years ago. This modern edition contains newly discovered strains of citrus diseases, expanded details on many pathogens, and important classification revisions of citrus pathogens.