Sclerotinia Diseases of Crop Plants: Biology, Ecology and Disease Management

• Main Authors: Saharan, G. S. (Author), Mehta, Naresh (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Microbiology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant pathology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Pathology.

Sclerotinia is one of the most devastating and cosmopolitan soil borne plant pathogen that infects more than 500 species of plants worldwide including field crops, fruit crops, ornamentals, trees, shrubs and numerous weeds. Annual yield losses due to Sclerotinia diseases exceed over millions of doll...

Table of Contents:

• Geographical Distribution
• History and Host Range
• Economic Importance
• The Disease and Symptoms
• Disease Assessment
• The Pathogen – Sclerotinia
• Reproduction and Reproductive Structures
• Ultrastructures
• Pathogenic Variability
• Perpetuation
• Infection and Pathogenesis
• Biochemistry of Host-Pathogen Interaction
• Physiology of Host-Pathogen Interaction
• Disease Cycle
• Epidemiology of Sclerotinia Diseases
• Disease Forecasting
• Disease Resistance
• Disease Management
• Sclerotinia as Mycoherbicide
• Phytotoxin, Phytoalexin, Fungal Viruses, Hypovirulence, Volatile Compounds of Sclerotinia
• Laboratory and Field Techniques
• Future Strategies and Priorities.