BookGovind Pratap Rao, Assunta Bertaccini, Nicola Fiore, Lia W. Liefting, editors.
Summary: Provides recent and updated information on emerging and re-emerging phytoplasma diseases affecting important crops in tropics and subtropics. Provides comprehensive information on disease distribution, occurrence, and identification of the phytoplasmas Includes the recent approaches for diagnostics, transmission, and information about losses and geographical distribution along with and management aspects.
Contents:
Phytoplasmas: an update
Phytoplasmas infecting vegetable, pulse and oil crops
Occurrence and epidemiological aspects of phytoplasmas in cereals
Phytoplasma diseases of industrial crops
Grapevine phytoplasmas
Fruit Crop phytoplasmas
Phytoplasma diseases in ornamental crops
Phytoplasma diseases of medicinal crops
Phytoplasma diseases of palms
Major phytoplasma diseases of forest and urban trees
Phytoplasma in weeds and wild plants.