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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| Lingua: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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Sommario:
- 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.