The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases

Author:   B. Michael Cooke ,  D. Gareth Jones ,  Bernard Kaye
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2nd ed. 2006
ISBN:  

9781402045806


Pages:   568
Publication Date:   05 September 2006
Format:   Paperback
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Plant disease epidemiology is a dynamic science that forms an essential part of the study of plant pathology. This book brings together a team of 35 international experts. Each chapter deals with an essential component of the subject and allows the reader to fully understand how each exerts its influence on the progress of pathogen populations in plant populations over a defined time scale. Since the first edition of the text was published in 1998, many new developments have occurred in the subjects covered, particularly molecular diagnostics, modelling, fungicide resistance and information technology. The second edition of the book is a comprehensive text on all aspects of plant disease epidemiology that should serve as an invaluable reference work for those involved in this fascinating science of crop plants.

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Author:   B. Michael Cooke ,  D. Gareth Jones ,  Bernard Kaye
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2nd ed. 2006
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.908kg
ISBN:  

9781402045806


ISBN 10:   1402045808
Pages:   568
Publication Date:   05 September 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Principles and Methods.- Plant disease diagnosis.- Disease assessment and yield loss.- Surveys of variation in virulence and fungicide resistance and their application to disease control.- Infection strategies of plant parasitic fungi.- Epidemiological consequences of plant disease resistance.- Dispersal of foliar plant pathogens: mechanisms, gradients and spatial patterns.- Pathogen population dynamics.- Modelling and interpreting disease progress in time.- Disease forecasting.- Diversification strategies.- Epidemiology in sustainable systems.- Information technology in plant disease epidemiology.- Case Examples.- Seedborne diseases.- Diseases caused by soil-borne pathogens.- Wind-dispersed diseases.- Environmental biophysics applied to the dispersal of fungal spores by rain-splash.- Potato late blight.- Apple scab: role of environment in pathogen and epidemic development.- Onion diseases.- The recent epidemic of cassava mosaic virus disease in Uganda.

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From the reviews of the second edition: ""This second edition contains updated and new contributed chapters in the same format as the first edition ... . The topics covered understandably have a strong United Kingdom flavour, but several chapters deal with widely applicable principles and are illustrated by examples from several countries. Although plant disease epidemiology relies heavily on quantitative methods, most chapters in this book are written without a strongly mathematical slant, which will make the book attractive to the many students and researchers who are not mathematically inclined."" (Rob Beresford, Plant Pathology, 2006)


From the reviews of the second edition: This second edition contains updated and new contributed chapters in the same format as the first edition ! . The topics covered understandably have a strong United Kingdom flavour, but several chapters deal with widely applicable principles and are illustrated by examples from several countries. Although plant disease epidemiology relies heavily on quantitative methods, most chapters in this book are written without a strongly mathematical slant, which will make the book attractive to the many students and researchers who are not mathematically inclined. (Rob Beresford, Plant Pathology, 2006)


From the reviews of the second edition: This second edition contains updated and new contributed chapters in the same format as the first edition ... . The topics covered understandably have a strong United Kingdom flavour, but several chapters deal with widely applicable principles and are illustrated by examples from several countries. Although plant disease epidemiology relies heavily on quantitative methods, most chapters in this book are written without a strongly mathematical slant, which will make the book attractive to the many students and researchers who are not mathematically inclined. (Rob Beresford, Plant Pathology, 2006)


Author Information

B.M. Cooke is a Professor of Plant Pathology and the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Plant Pathology at the School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. D. Gareth Jones is an Emeritus Research Professor of the Welsh Institute of Rural Studies, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. Bernard Kaye is a multi-media consultant in the School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland.

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