Plant Diseases of International Importance

Plant Diseases of International Importance
Author: Uma Shankar Singh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1992
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780136785583

Volume two of a series on plant diseases of international economic importance, this volume deals with diseases of vegetable and oil seed crops. It details history, distribution, symptoms, aetiology and control measures.

Return to Resistance

Return to Resistance
Author: Raoul A. Robinson
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1996
Genre: Agricultural pests
ISBN: 9780889367746

In the tradition of Silent Spring, Raoul Robinson's Return to Resistance calls for a revolution. Traditional plant breeding techniques have led us to depend more and more on chemical pesticides to protect ourcrops. Return to Resistance shows gardeners, farmers, and plant breeders how to use a long-neglected technique to create hardy new plant varieties that are naturally resistant to pests and disease. Horizontal resistance breeding has been largely ignored in this century due to the popularity and apparent successes of the Mendelian geneticists. However the colossal, unrecognized failure of m.

Seed-borne plant virus diseases

Seed-borne plant virus diseases
Author: K. Subramanya Sastry
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2013-01-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 8132208137

Seeds provide an efficient means in disseminating plant virus and viroid diseases. The success of modern agriculture depends on pathogen free seed with high yielding character and in turn disease management. There is a serious scientific concern about the transmission of plant viruses sexually through seed and asexually through plant propagules. The present book provides the latest information along with the total list of seed transmitted virus and viroid diseases at global level including, the yield losses, diagnostic techniques, mechanism of seed transmission, epidemiology and virus disease management aspects. Additional information is also provided on the transmission of plant virus and virus-like diseases through vegetative propagules. It is also well known that seed transmitted viruses are introduced into new countries and continents during large-scale traffic movements through infected germplasm and plant propogules. The latest diagnostic molecular techniques in different virus-host combinations along with disease management measures have been included. The book shall be a good reference source and also a text book to the research scientists, teachers, students of plant pathology, agriculture, horticulture, life sciences, green house managers, professional entrepreneurs, persons involved in quarantines and seed companies. This book has several important features of seed transmitted virus diseases and is a good informative source and thus deserves a place in almost all university libraries, seed companies and research organizations.

Manual on MUTATION BREEDING THIRD EDITION

Manual on MUTATION BREEDING THIRD EDITION
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9251305269

This paper provides guidelines for new high-throughput screening methods – both phenotypic and genotypic – to enable the detection of rare mutant traits, and reviews techniques for increasing the efficiency of crop mutation breeding.

Pollination Biology

Pollination Biology
Author: Dharam P. Abrol
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 812
Release: 2011-10-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400719426

This book has a wider approach not strictly focused on crop production compared to other books that are strictly oriented towards bees, but has a generalist approach to pollination biology. It also highlights relationships between introduced and wild pollinators and consequences of such introductions on communities of wild pollinating insects. The chapters on biochemical basis of plant-pollination interaction, pollination energetics, climate change and pollinators and pollinators as bioindicators of ecosystem functioning provide a base for future insights into pollination biology. The role of honeybees and wild bees on crop pollination, value of bee pollination, planned honeybee pollination, non-bee pollinators, safety of pollinators, pollination in cages, pollination for hybrid seed production, the problem of diseases, genetically modified plants and bees, the role of bees in improving food security and livelihoods, capacity building and awareness for pollinators are also discussed.

Seed to Seed

Seed to Seed
Author: Suzanne Ashworth
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2012-10-31
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0988474905

A complete seed-saving guide of 160 vegetables, including detailed info on each vegetable.