Plant Virus and Viroid Diseases in the Tropics

Plant Virus and Viroid Diseases in the Tropics
Author: K. Subramanya Sastry
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2014-01-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400778201

Around the globe, besides fungal and bacterial diseases, both virus and viroid diseases have acquired greater importance in the realm of plant pathology and call for effective management measures as they are responsible for heavy yield losses and are a matter of vital importance and concern to farmers, horticulturists, gardeners and foresters. Understanding disease epidemiology is of vital importance for formulating viable disease management practices in a given agro-ecosystem. The development and progress of plant disease epidemics are variable from region to region. Epidemiology is not a static process, but rather a dynamic course that varies with a change in the ecology, host, vector and virus systems.

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.

Plant Virus Epidemiology

Plant Virus Epidemiology
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2006-12-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080466370

Published since 1953, Advances in Virus Research covers a diverse range of in-depth reviews providing a valuable overview of the current field of virology. In 2004, the Institute for Scientific Information released figures showing that the series has an Impact Factor of 2.576, with a half-life of 7.1 years, placing it 11th in the highly competitive category of Virology.* Edited by an experienced plant pathologist who has over 50 years experience in plant virus epidemiology* Covers topics such as Evolutionary epidemiology of plant virus disease, The control of tropical plant virus diseases, and Control of plant virus diseases* A valuable resource for students and researchers alike

Handbook of Plant Virus Diseases

Handbook of Plant Virus Diseases
Author: Dragoljub D. Sutic
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 582
Release: 1999-06-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780849323027

Handbook of Plant Virus Diseases presents basic information about viral-caused and viral-like diseases in many cultivated crops. The editors, internationally known plant pathologists, provide authoritative descriptive symptomatic signatures of virus diseases, to aid in the diagnosis and possible control of viruses. This handbook organizes cultivated plants into groups according to their final destinations and uses after harvest-a useful grouping system that indicates that some diseases, their resultant epidemiology, and control measures are characteristic within different groups.

Plant Diseases

Plant Diseases
Author: J. E. Van der Plank
Publisher:
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1963
Genre: Science
ISBN:

The control of plant diseases studied as part of epidemiology. About interest on money, logarithmic increase. The logarithmic and the apparent infection rates. How to plot the progress of an epidemic. The basic infection rate. The latent period. Average values of infection rates; increase of populations of lesions and foci, independente action of propagules. Corrected infection rates. Stochastic methods in epidemiology. A guide to the chapters on control of disease. Sanitation with special reference to potato bligth. Sanitation with special reference to wheat stem rust. Sanitation and two systemic diseases, sanitation when other things are not equal. Vertical and horizontal resistance against potato bligth. A note on the history of stem rust epidemics in spring wheat in North America. Plant disease in biological warfare. The bases of vertical resistance. General resistance against disease. The choice of type of resistance. The quantitative effect of horizontal resistance. Control of disease by fungicides. How disease spreads as it increases. The cryptic error in field experiments.

A Textbook of Plant Virus Diseases

A Textbook of Plant Virus Diseases
Author: Kenneth M. Smith
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 695
Release: 2012-12-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0323162053

A Textbook of Plant Virus Diseases deals with a discussion of different plant viruses, their properties, and the corresponding diseases these viruses cause. It includes a list of host plants of every virus arranged alphabetically. The book discusses the new types of disease vectors, such as root-infesting fungi, nematode worms, mites, and insects that are both biting and sucking. It also discusses the development of new techniques in electron microscopy that is used to characterize in detail the causal viruses of a number of plant virus diseases. Furthermore, it presents the development of plant virus serology, as well as the improved methods of virus isolation that allow the classification of viruses into related groups. The book includes a Bibliography and an Index of Synonyms that can be used in identifying given virus name. In addition, cross-references are included for searching a particular virus under the alternative names. This book will be invaluable to ecologists, environmentalists, agriculturalists, and other scientists interested in plant viruses. Biology students will also find this reference helpful.

Virus Diseases of Ornamental Plants

Virus Diseases of Ornamental Plants
Author: S. K. Raj
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2021-11-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811639191

This edited book elucidates the evolution of plant virus, genomic structure, diversity, plant-virus interaction, subcellular movement etc. The book reviews the biological machineries which allow the emergence of virus populations adapted by plant. The main objective of this book is the demonstration of a clear synergistic effect of plant viruses, an effect that was unexpectedly as important as applied alone. Ornamental plants are very popular and economically important worldwide. The international market of ornamentals is constantly expanding. Viruses and viroids can significantly reduce both decorative value and quality of propagated material of ornamentals. Due to the wide range of ornamental plant species and cultivars and their wide geographical distribution, the diversity of viruses that infect them is also high. The new emerging viruses are the causal agent for the economic loss of many important ornamental plants. Therefore, this book also adds value to current knowledge of virus stress response in ornamental plants and will provide the groundwork necessary for building future strategies for product enhancement. This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, capacity builders and policymakers. It can serve as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of virology, agriculture and plant sciences.

Plant Viruses and Virus Diseases

Plant Viruses and Virus Diseases
Author: Frederick Charles Bawden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1964
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Symptomatology: changes in the appearance of plants. Symptomatology: changes within infected plants. Symptomatology: effects on host-plant metabolism. Methods of transmission. Transmission by animals while feeding. Methods of assay. The composition of virus particles. The morphology of viruses. Types of inactivation. Virus multiplication. Movement within host plants. Genetic variability. Classification. The control of virus diseaes.