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Forest Microbiology: Tree Diseases and Pests, Volume Three in the Forest Microbiology series, provides an overview of major disease agents of trees, including viruses, phytoplasma, bacteria, fungi, nematodes and major insect pests. With a strong emphasis on genetics, biochemistry, physiology, evolutionary biology and population dynamics of the organisms involved, this book provides a comprehensive understanding on the health of forests. Sections cover important pest threats such as bark beetles, emerald ash borer, coffee borers, leaf cutting ants, cocoa mirids, and more. This volume highlights a range of emerging diseases of forest trees in temperate and tropic regions as well as information on habitats. Forest trees play crucial roles not only for mitigating effects of the climate change but also for their considerable economic and ecological value. Forest trees are equally vital as an alternative bioenergy source and play important roles in pollution abatement and the maintenance of biodiversity. Timber and its associated products from forest trees contribute substantially to the revenue generation of many countries of the world.

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Author:   Fred O Asiegbu (Professor, Forest Pathology, University of Helsinki, Finland) ,  Andriy Kovalchuk (Senior Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre and University of Helsinki, Finland)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Weight:   1.250kg
ISBN:  

9780443186943

ISBN 10:   0443186944
Pages:   474
Publication Date:   29 July 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Forest and Tree Resilience 1. Forest resources and sustainable management 2. Anatomical, chemical, and molecular defenses of forest trees Part II: Viruses, Phytoplasma, and other complex diseases 3. Viral diseases of trees 4. Phytoplasma diseases of trees 5. Witch’s broom disease Part III: Bacteria Diseases of Trees 6. Bacterial diseases (including blight, wilt, galls, wetwood, scorch and canker) Part IV. Nematode diseases of trees 7. Nematode diseases of trees 8. Beech leaf disease caused by nematodes Part V: Insects and other pests of forest trees 9. Insect pests of boreal and temperate forest trees 10. Coffee pests 11. Eucalyptus pests 12. Vertebrate herbivore browsing and impact on forest production Part VI: Complex diseases of economically important trees (case examples) 13. Dynamics of disease complex of cashew trees 14. Cocoa disease complex 15. Eucalyptus diseases 16. Oil palm tree diseases 17. Acacia tree diseases 18. Disease of rubber trees 19. Diseases of Bamboo trees 20. Diseases of conifer trees

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Dr Asiegbu has been the professor of forest pathology at the University of Helsinki since 2007. He has a master’s degree in applied microbiology and plant pathology, and a PhD in biotechnology. His major research focus has been the application of biotechnology knowledge and tools for the determination of ecological, molecular and biochemical pathways required by emerging fungal and forest pathogens to spread, infect and cause disease to trees worldwide. He has been a member of the faculty interdisciplinary Master's Programme in Biotechnology and is also an invited professor at Nanjing Forestry University in China. Dr Kovalchuk is a researcher at the University of Helsinki. He has a PhD in molecular biology and has over 30 peer-reviewed journal publications on forest microbiomes.

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