ABSTRACT

The book presents strategies for the management of crop diseases, and explores means of integrating various strategies to achieve desired levels of suppression. It describes methods of preventing introduction of microbial pathogens, cultural practices that suppress pathogen populations, alternative soil treatments, resistant cultivars, biocontrol a

part |2 pages

Part I Microbial Plant Pathogens

chapter 1|4 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|70 pages

Characteristics of Microbial Pathogens

part |2 pages

Part II Plant-Pathogen Interaction

chapter 4|62 pages

Pathogenicity and

Host Defense

part |2 pages

Part III Crop Disease Management— Principles and Practices