The Role of Plant Pathology in Food Safety and Food Security

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Strange, R.N (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Gullino, Maria Lodovica (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Σειρά: Plant Pathology in the 21st Century, Contributions to the 9th International Congress ; 3
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Food > Biotechnology.; Agriculture.; Bioinformatics.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant pathology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Pathology.; Food Science.; Plant Sciences.

This book views the vulnerability of our crops in general to devastating diseases as well as specifically the disease problems of two important staples, rice and cassava. Increased travel and increased transport of plant material throughout the world pose ever more significant risks to the health of...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The Role of Plant Pathology in Food Safety and Food Security
• Plant Diseases and the World’s Dependence on Rice
• Development of Appropriate Strategies to Control Cassava Diseases in Ghana
• Biosecurity in the Movement of Commodities as a Component of Global Food Security
• Global Food Security
• ISPP and the Challenge of Food Security
• Globalisation and the Threat to Biosecurity
• Genetic Modification (GM) as a New Tool in the Resistance Toolbox
• The Role of Plant Pathology and Biotechnology in Food Security in Africa
• Mycotoxins
• The Secondary Metabolite Toxin, Sirodesmin PL, and Its Role in Virulence of the Blackleg Fungus
• Biological and Chemical Complexity of Fusarium proliferatum
• Biosecurity and Quarantine
• Bioterrorism: A Threat to Plant Biosecurity?
• The Revised International Plant Protection Convention – a New Context for Plant Quarantine
• Pest Risk Analysis as Applied to Plant Pathogens.