Download or read book The Pathology of Tropical Food Legumes written by D. J. Allen and published by . This book was released on with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pathology of Tropical Food Legumes written by D. J. Allen and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1984-03-22 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents broad coverage of the use of genetics to improve disease resistance in crops. Discusses host plant resistance as the most appropriate method of managing pests and disease and improving crop production. Provides information on the tropical environment, evolutionary diversity of the legumes, crop-pathogen evolution, cropping systems stability, germplasm exchange, and crop vulnerability. Focuses on the geographical distribution, economic importance and ecology and interactions of legume pathogens. Reviews major diseases of each crop presented and discusses the future of agricultural production.
Download or read book The Pathology of Food and Pasture Legumes written by D. J. Allen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legumes provide one quarter of the world's crop protein, and the diseases which afflict them have a tremendous impact worldwide. This important collection examines the diseases of the major legume crops. Each chapter provides a review of a particular crop and its principal diseases. The chapters include discussions of etiology, biology, symptoms, epidemiology, crop loss and control, as well as extensive references. The book opens with an overview of legumes and their role in agriculture and concludes with a discussion of new disease management techniques. Written by leading experts from throughout the world, it is an indispensable resource for plant pathologists.
Download or read book Advances in Cowpea Research written by B. B. Singh and published by IITA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowpea: taxonomy, genetics, and breeding, physiology and agronomy, diseases and parasitic weeds, insect pests, postharvest technology and utilization. Biotechnological applications.
Download or read book World crops Cool season food legumes written by R.J. Summerfield and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genesis of the International Food Legume Research Conference (IFLRC) can be traced back to 1983 - and so this Volume, the Proceedings of that Conference, has had a gestation period of close to five years. Professor Norman Simmonds, the perennial Book Review Editor of Experimental Agriculture, has expressed the opinion (vol. 22, p. 201, 1986) that "Many symposial volumes are just plain awful!" Elsewhere (Nature vol. 312, pp. 201-2, 1984), Anthony Watkinson - then a Commissioning Editor at Oxford University Press has described several reasons which have led him to believe that "Conference proceedings - symposia - are generally disliked . . . . To put it mildly, this type of publication has a bad name". The problems, from an author's perspective, of contributing to any many-authored publication are aired in an exchange of correspondence in Biologist (vol. 30, pp. 123 and 180, 1983; and vol. 31, pp. 3 and 69,1984). And from the editor's viewpoint, D. J. Weatherall - then Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford - has described (Nature vol. 317, p.
Download or read book Tropical Diseases of legumes written by Julio Bird-Piñero and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foods of Plant Origin written by D.K. Salunkhe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present world population of about five billion and its projected growth cre ate enonnous pressures and demands for food and industrial raw materials. It is to crop plants, one of our precious few renewable resources, that we must look to meet most of these needs. Globally, about 88% of our caloric requirements and 90% of our protein ultimately derive from plant sources-ample evidence of their importance to humankind. Our survival will therefore continue to de pend on the world's largest and certainly most important industry: agriculture. Yet in spite of our long history of domestication and civilization, the number of crop species involved in sustaining human life is strictly limited: Essentially, some twenty-four crops protect us from starvation. To know these basic food crop plants-to study how they function and how their productivity may be improved--is the first step in solving the world food problem. The primary objectives in writing this book were to address this chal lenge and to review comprehensively the wealth of available yet scattered infor mation on food crop productivity and processing. Unlike several other texts and monographs in this field, the present work was intended to give, in a single volume, a quick, infonnative view of the various problems from field to table concerning the major food crops worldwide.
Download or read book Advances in Plant Pathology written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1995-07-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on issues of plant pathology and sustainability, such as short term economic plans versus long term economic visions in farming and forestry. The book also deals with the complex biological interactions governing success in minimizing pest or pathogen damage by biological or chemical strategies, benefits and costs to the producer, consequences for the environment of management options, and the challenge of defining useful farm or forest indicatorsof sustainable practices.
Download or read book Principal diseases of beans in Africa written by and published by CIAT. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Root Rots of Beans in Latin America and Africa written by George Samuel Abawi and published by CIAT. This book was released on 1990 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major root rots of beans in Latin America and Africa; Minor root rots of beans in Latin America and Africa; Unreported root rots of beans in Latin America and Africa; Diagnosis of root rots in beans; Selected methodologies and techniques for research on root rots of beans; Management strategies for control of root rots of beans.
Download or read book Virus and Virus like Diseases of Major Crops in Developing Countries written by Gad Loebenstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It appears that a comprehensive and up-to-date book on the impact of virus diseases on the major crops in developing countries is now much needed, especially as there have been rapid advances in the biological and molecular characterization and detection of the pathogens and possible approaches for their control. On the other hand, the economic losses caused by many of these diseases are tremendous and much of the accumulated knowledge to diminish the crop losses has not filtered through, or cannot be applied. This book is focused on the important crops. Each chapter on a specific crop will include inter alia, geographical distribution, the viruses - symptoms, damage, detection - a brief description of the viruses concerned, and present and future ways for their control. Experts from India, Nigeria, UK, USA, France, Germany, Peru, Japan, Australia, Netherlands, Venezuela, Kazakhstan and Israel (many of them from the International Research Institutions) have contributed chapters to this book.
Download or read book Post Harvest Diseases and Disorders of Fruits and Vegetables written by Anna L. Snowden and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now established worldwide as the standard guide to the recognition and understanding of the causes of deterioration in temperate and tropical fruits and vegetables, these two superbly illustrated full-colour volumes deal clearly, concisely and systematically with each of the main diseases and disorders, emphasising those of importance to international trade. Dr Snowdon has designed each volume to be used in two different ways: 1. Full colour photographs and practical text provide the basis for preliminary identification by the owner or surveyor. 2. Using the microscope drawings and references, diagnosis can then be confirmed or modified by a specialist.
Download or read book Bean Production Problems in the Tropics written by Howard F. Schwartz and published by CIAT. This book was released on 1989 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first section reviews trends of bean production and constraints in Latin America and Africa. The second section covers fungal diseases. The third section, bacterial diseases. The fourth section, viral and mycoplasma diseases. The fifth section, insect pests. The last section, other bean production constraints, that is, nutritional disorders, nematodes, seed pathology, and additional problems.
Download or read book Legumes and Oilseed Crops I written by Y. P. S. Bajaj and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legumes under Environmental Stress written by Parvaiz Ahmad and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leguminous crops have been found to contribute almost 27% of the world’s primary crop production. However, due to environmental fluctuations, legumes are often exposed to different environmental stresses, leading to problems with growth and development, and ultimately, decreased yield. This timely review explains the transcriptomics, proteomics, genomics, metabolomics, transgenomics, functional genomics and phenomics of a wide range of different leguminous crops under biotic and abiotic stresses, and their genetic and molecular responses. Amongst others the text describes the effect of nutrient deficiency, pesticides, salt, and temperature stress on legumes. Importantly, the book explores the physiobiochemical, molecular and omic approaches that are used to overcome biotic and abiotic constraints in legumes. It looks at the exogenous application of phytoprotectants; the role of nutrients in the alleviation of abiotic stress; and the microbial strategy for the improvement of legume production under hostile environments. Key features: demonstrates how to mitigate the negative effect of stress on leguminous crops, and how to improve the yield under stress the most up-to-date research in the field written by an international team of active researchers and practitioners across academia, industry and non-profit organisations. This volume is a valuable and much-needed resource for scientists, professionals and researchers working in plant science, breeding, food security, crop improvement and agriculture worldwide. In universities it will educate postgraduate and graduate students in plant science and agriculture; it will also benefit those in scientific institutions and in biotech and agribusiness companies, who deal with agronomy and environment.
Download or read book Principles of intercropping with beans written by and published by CIAT. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diseases of Horticultural Crops written by and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers around 700 species covering Latin family, common and local names distribution, market rate, chemical constituents. Sketches facilitates identity and comprehension by the reader.
