The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases

by B. Michael Cooke (Editor), D. Gareth Jones (Editor), Bernard Kaye (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402045790
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	05/05/2006
Edition description:	Second Edition 2006
Pages:	568
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x 0.05(d)

About the Author

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.

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.

Editorial Reviews

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)

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