The nature of disease in plants /
This book is about how disease develops in plants, from the origins and evolution of parasites to how the great plant epidemics developed. The basic premise of the book is that the conditions favoring disease are inherent in agriculture and that diseases became destructive because of human activitie...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Scheffer, Robert P. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The nature of disease in plants / |c Robert P. Scheffer. |
| 260 | |a Cambridge ; |a New York, NY, USA : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 1997. | ||
| 300 | |a ix, 325 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-312) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Perspective -- 2. Causes and Spread of Plant Disease -- 3. How Pathogens Attack Plants -- 4. How Plants Defend Against Pathogens -- 5. Ecological Considerations -- 6. Disease Controls and Their Limitations -- 7. Native Plants, Alien Pathogens -- 8. Alien Plants, Native Pathogens -- 9. Pathogens Overtake Movement of Crop Plants -- 10. Monoculture: Removal of Ecological Restraints -- 11. Monoculture: Pathogen Adaptability -- 12. Monoculture: Cochliobolus Diseases with Toxins -- 13. Monoculture: Alternaria Diseases with Toxins -- 14. Diseases Amplified by Changes in Agriculture -- 15. Anthropogenic Reintroduction Each Year -- 16. Abiotic Diseases: Damage from Air Pollution -- 17. Prospectus. | |
| 520 | |a This book is about how disease develops in plants, from the origins and evolution of parasites to how the great plant epidemics developed. The basic premise of the book is that the conditions favoring disease are inherent in agriculture and that diseases became destructive because of human activities. It also deals with how people have deal with plant diseases in history - from demons to DNA. Included in the book are the natural histories of some of the most damaging plant diseases, worldwide, with discussions of why each became destructive. Diseases are grouped according to the most significant factors in the development of epidemics; in every case, this is due to a human factor. Discussion of each model disease proceeds from observable facts to more complex concepts; thus, the reader with little knowledge of plant pathology should have no trouble with the text. Special terminology and jargon are avoided as much as possible (a glossary of special terms is included) | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Plant diseases. | |
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