Nematology in South Africa: A View from the 21st Century

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fourie, Hendrika (Editor), Spaull, Vaughan W. (Editor), Jones, Robin K. (Editor), Daneel, Mieke S. (Editor), De Waele, Dirk (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Parasitology.; Agriculture.; Animal ecology.; Plant pathology.; Plant breeding.; Zoology.; Biomedicine.; Plant Pathology.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Animal Ecology.

This unique book contains not only a comprehensive up-to-date summary of the achievements made in all areas of Nematology in South Africa over more than half a century, but it also combines this rather technical part with an insiders narrative of how Nematology started and developed. It also demonst...

Table of Contents:

• The History of Nematology in Southern Africa
• Nematode morphology and classification
• Techniques and methods
• Quarantine nematodes
• Chemical and biological control
• Alternative nematode management strategies for subsistence farmers
• Nematode pests of cereal crops
• Nematodes of leguminous and oil seed crops
• Nematodes of potato and other vegetable crops
• Nematode pests of sugarcane
• Nematode pests of industrial crops
• Nematode pests of citrus
• Nematode pests of grapevine
• Nematode pests of deciduous fruits
• Nematode pests of banana
• Nematode pests of miscellaneous tropical and subtropical crops
• Nematode pests of pineapples
• Nematode pests of grasses and weeds
• Free-living nematodes
• Overview of the South African plant-parasitic nematode survey (SAPPNS)
• Entomopathogenic nematodes
• Marine and estuarine nematodes
• Nematode parasites of primates and humans
• Future challenges.