The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: COOKE, B.M (Editor), JONES, D. GARETH (Editor), KAYE, BERNARD (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant pathology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Pathology.; Plant Sciences.

Plant disease epidemiology is a dynamic science that forms an essential part of the study of plant pathology. This book brings together a team of 35 international experts. Each chapter deals with an essential component of the subject and allows the reader to fully understand how each exerts its infl...

Table of Contents:

• Principles and Methods
• Plant disease diagnosis
• Disease assessment and yield loss
• Surveys of variation in virulence and fungicide resistance and their application to disease control
• Infection strategies of plant parasitic fungi
• Epidemiological consequences of plant disease resistance
• Dispersal of foliar plant pathogens: mechanisms, gradients and spatial patterns
• Pathogen population dynamics
• Modelling and interpreting disease progress in time
• Disease forecasting
• Diversification strategies
• Epidemiology in sustainable systems
• Information technology in plant disease epidemiology
• Case Examples
• Seedborne diseases
• Diseases caused by soil-borne pathogens
• Wind-dispersed diseases
• Environmental biophysics applied to the dispersal of fungal spores by rain-splash
• Potato late blight
• Apple scab: role of environment in pathogen and epidemic development
• Onion diseases
• The recent epidemic of cassava mosaic virus disease in Uganda.