Manual Of Vegetable Plant Diseases

Contents: Asparagus Diseases, Bean Diseases, Diseases of Beets, Carrots and Chicory, Diseases of Celery, Diseases of Sweet-Corn, Diseases of Crucifers, Diseases of Cucurbits, Diseases of Eggplant, Diseases of Lettuce, Diseases of Onions, Diseases of Okra, Parsley and Parsnip, Diseases of Peas, Diseases of Pepper, Potato Diseases, Diseases of Rhubarb and Salsify, Diseases of Spinach, Sweet-Potato Diseases, Diseases of Tomato, Soil Sterilization, Fungicides.

Vegetable Diseases focuses primarily on diseases that are caused by pathogens. Chapters dealing with the general principles of the causes, diagnosis and control of vegetable crop diseases are followed by crop-based chapters. Each disease entry includes a brief introduction to the disease, detailed description of disease symptoms, information on the pathogen and disease development, and suggestions on how to manage the problem. Top quality color photos illustrate the book throughout. This book will be useful to a range of professionals including research and extension plant pathologists; diagnosticians and plant lab personnel; teachers of agriculture and related subjects; university students in agriculture and related fields; commercial farmers, vegetable producers, and farm managers; agriculturalists in the fields of seed production, vegetable breeding, agrichemicals, pest control, marketing, and other subjects; government and regulatory persons dealing with agriculture; serious gardeners and hobbyists. Crop based organisation for easy diagnosis High quality color photos 444 color illustrations, 5 tables

The Fruits and Vegetables manual is a reference manual on diseases which attack fruits (including berries), vegetables, and nuts. The manual identifies various types of diseases which are known to invade these plants located throughout North, Central, and South America. The recordings include diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, viroids, phytoplasmas, and nematodes. Causal disease agents are described and illustrated in some cases and diseases and disease control measures are also discussed. A manual such as this is never finished since new reports of diseases are continuously reported.

Symptoms of disease in plants; Non-parasitic diseases; Diseases due to deficiences of food materials in the soil; Diseases due to excesses of soluble salts in the soil; Diseases due to unfavorable water relations; Diseases due to improper air relations; Diseases due to high temperatures; Diseases due to low temperatures; Diseases due to unfavorable light light relations; Diseases due to manufacturing or industrial processes; Diseases due to control practices; Virus and related diseases; Parasitic diseases; Bacterial diseases of plants; Diseases due to slime molds; The conditions of a fungus in or on the substratum; Diseases due to downy mildews and allies; Diseases due to pondscum parasites; Diseases due to black molds and allies; Diseases due to leaf curls and related fungi; Diseases due to cup fungi and allies; Diseases due to powdery mildews and allies; Diseases due to sphere fungi and allies; Diseases due to imperfect fungi; Diseases due to smut fungi; Diseases due to rust fungi; Diseases due to palisade fungi and allies; Parasitic seed plants and the troubles they cause; Nematodes and the diseases they cause.

Excerpt from Handbook of the Diseases of Vegetables: Occurring Under Market, Storage, and Transit Conditions This handbook is designed primarily to aid the inspectors of the Bureau of Markets in the detection and identification of plant diseases as they occur in vegetables under transit, storage, and market conditions. The entire inspection service and the survey and study of vegetable crop diseases under transit and market conditions, were begun but little more than a year ago, consequently this handbook, an outgrowth of that survey and study, is necessarily incomplete. The text and illustrations are the property of the United States Department of Agriculture, and are not to be used in any published form whatsoever. The description of the signs, symptoms, or effects of each plant disease is followed by a statement of the geographic distribution and the seasonal or climatic relations of the disease so far as they are known, since some diseases occur only in certain districts and often only under certain conditions. A statement is made as to the time and place of inception, development, and spread of the disease. This is especially important from a market point of view. For example, in placing the responsibility for the poor condition of a shipment caused by bacteria or fungi, it is essential to bear in mind that some diseases are field infections and do not develop nor spread in transit or storage; that others are field infections which develop or progress but do not spread in transit or storage; that others are field infections which develop and spread under transit and storage conditions; and finally that a number are transit and storage infections of stock perfectly sound when harvested. It is fully realized that at present not all decay can be referred to clearly defined causes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A text and reference for students and professionals, this volume discusses the causes, distribution, symptoms, and control of the diseases of many of the world's important field crops. It covers approximately1,200 diseases on 25 plants grown throughout the world. Diseases are listed alphabetically by crop name under each type of causal organism, with each disease discussed by causes, distribution, symptoms, and control. Synonyms and common names for each disease are also included to aid in diagnosis.