Biology - Microbiology, Plants - General & Miscellaneous, Agricultural Diseases & Pests, Botany - Diseases, Parasites, & Foreign Substances
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This unique reference offers essential information on the detection of plant pathogens in seeds, vegetatively propagated seed materials, infected plants, soil, and water - covering both conventional and the latest molecular methods for the detection of fungal, bacterial, viral, mycoplasmal, and viroid pathogens. Written in an easy-to-understand style and providing convenient chapter summaries for quick review, Plant Pathogen Detection and Disease Diagnosis furnishes methods for the detection of all known pathogens...shows how to identify detected pathogens...explains techniques for pathogen quantification...supplies comprehensive lists of diagnostic hosts...elucidates the physical properties of viruses...and much more. Containing over 1100 bibliographic citations and some 70 photographs and drawings, Plant Pathogen Detection and Disease Diagnosis is a practical guide for plant pathologists, physiologists, and biochemists; horticulturists; botanists; microbiologists; environmental scientists; agronomists; agriculturists; foresters; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.Editorials
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Describes both conventional and new molecular methods of detecting plant pathogens in seeds, vegetatively propagated seed materials, infected plants, soil, and water. Considers all known pathogens, including fungal, bacterial, viral, mycoplasmal, and viroid. Covers characteristics of pathogenic microbes, symptoms of plant diseases, dissemination, cross-protection, chemodiagnostic methods, electron microscopy, serodiagnostic methods, nucleic-acid based techniques, detecting double-stranded RNA, and monitoring plant diseases. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
August 1, 1997
Publisher
Marcel Dekker Inc
Pages
344
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780824700409