Manual of Plant Diseases in 2 Vols

by Heald F D

ISBN: 9789359196534
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Imprint : Biotech
Year : 2025
Price : Rs. 33795.00
Biblio : xii+953p.,figs.,ref.,ind., 25 cm

About The Book

Plant disease, an impairment of the normal state of a plant that interrupts or modifies its vital functions. All species of plants, wild and cultivated alike, are subject to disease. The occurrence and prevalence of plant diseases vary from season to season, depending on the presence of the pathogen, environmental conditions and the crops and varieties grown. The “Manual of Plant Diseases” has been divided in to twenty-eight chapters and four sections which includes Introduction and Symptoms of Diseases, Non-parasitic Diseases, Virus and related Diseases, and Parasitic Diseases. The mode of treatment has been to select thoroughly investigated and economically important individual diseases, and to describe each in details under history, geographical distribution, symptoms and effects, aetiology, host relations, and control, followed by an extensive list of references to the literature, Etiologically related diseases are noted briefly at the end of each chapter. This is a valuable source book for Students, Teachers, Researchers, Plant Pathologists, Nursery Managers, Agribusiness representatives, Growers Epidemiologists, Diagnosticians extension specialists and those who are involved in Agriculture and Horticulture