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1.1 The importance of plant disease |
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1.2 Problems associated with controlling plant disease |
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Chapter 2 Managing crop disease through cultural practices |
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2.2 Reducing the amount of pathogen inoculum |
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2.3 Reducing pathogen spread within the crop |
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2.4 Soil amendments and mulching |
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Chapter 3 Biological control agents in plant disease control |
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John M. Whipps and Mark P. McQuilken |
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3.3 Production, formulation and application |
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3.4 Commercial products available and uses |
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3.5 Factors affecting variable efficacy and constraints on commercial developments |
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3.6 Future research directions and conclusions |
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Chapter 4 Induced resistance for plant disease control |
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Tony Reglinski and Dale Walters |
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4.2 Induced resistance in practice |
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4.3 Costs associated with induced resistance |
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4.4 Trade-offs associated with induced resistance |
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Chapter 5 The use of composts and compost extracts in plant disease control |
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Audrey Litterick and Martin Wood |
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5.2 Definitions of composts, composting, compost extracts and compost teas |
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5.3 Production of composts and compost extracts/teas |
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5.4 History of the use of composts and compost extracts in crop production |
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5.5 Current use of composts and compost extracts/teas in crop production |
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5.7 Effects of composts on plant disease |
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5.8 Effects of compost extracts/teas on plant disease |
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5.9 Mechanisms involved in the suppression/control of plant disease using composts and compost extracts/teas |
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5.10 Conclusions and future work |
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Chapter 6 The use of host plant resistance in disease control |
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6.1 Introduction and benefits of resistance |
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6.3 Sources of resistance |
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6.4 Breeding methodology and selection strategies for inbreeding crops |
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6.5 Deployment of resistance |
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Chapter 7 Crop tolerance of foliar pathogens: possible mechanisms and potential for exploitation |
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Ian Bingham and Adrian Newton |
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7.2 Concepts and definitions – a historical perspective |
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7.4 How can tolerance be quantified? |
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7.5 Potential crop traits conferring tolerance |
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7.6 Is there a physiological or ecological cost to tolerance? |
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7.8 Strategy for improving tolerance |
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Chapter 8 Plant disease control through the use of variety mixtures |
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8.2 Trial demonstrations of mixtures |
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8.3 Mixtures used in practice |
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Chapter 9 Biofumigation for plant disease control – from the fundamentals to the farming system |
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9.2 The glucosinolate–myrosinase system |
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9.4 Separating GSL-related suppression from other effects of biofumigants |
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9.5 Maximizing biofumigation potential |
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9.6 Release efficiency, fate and activity of hydrolysis products in soil |
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9.7 Ecological considerations |
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Chapter 10 Control of plant disease through soil solarization |
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Abraham Gamliel and Jaacov Katan |
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10.2 Principles of soil solarization |
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10.3 Pathogen and weed control |
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10.4 Mechanisms of control and plant-growth improvement |
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10.5 Integrated management |
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10.6 Modelling of soil solarization and decision-making tools |
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10.7 Improvements by intensifying soil heating |
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10.8 Implementation and application |
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10.9 Special uses of solarization |
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10.10 Solarization and the MB crisis |
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Chapter 11 Plant disease control by nutrient management: sulphur |
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Silvia Haneklaus, Elke Bloem and Ewald Schnug |
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11.2 Sulphur-induced resistance – agronomic, physiological and molecular aspects |
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11.3 Perspectives in research |
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Chapter 12 Control of plant disease by disguising the leaf surface |
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12.2 Controlling disease using film-forming polymers |
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12.3 Particle films as agents for control of plant diseases |
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12.4 Disrupting spore adhesion to the leaf surface |
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Chapter 13 Bacteriophages as agents for the control of plant pathogenic bacteria |
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Botond Balogh, Timur Momol, Aleksa Obradovic and Jeffrey Jones |
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13.1 Introduction – disease control for bacterial diseases |
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13.3 Early use of bacteriophages in agriculture |
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13.4 Recent approaches for using phages in plant pathology |
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13.5 Challenges in using phages for disease control |
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13.6 Phages as part of an integrated management strategy |
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Chapter 14 Controlling plant disease using biological and environmentally friendly approaches: making it work in practice |
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14.2 How might biologically based disease control be used in crop protection practice? |
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14.3 Biologically based disease control: barriers to implementation |
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