Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook

Editor/Author Horst, R. Kenneth
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media

Single-User Purchase Price: $679.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: Not Available
ISBN: 978-94-007-2140-1
Category: Science - Botany
Image Count: 90
Book Status: Available
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Westcotts Plant Disease is a reference book on diseases which attack plants. Diseases of plants are found on most all plants including trees, shrubs, grasses, forage, fruits, vegetables, garden and greenhouse plants as well as native wild flowers and even weeds.

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Table of Contents

  • Part I Garden Chemicals and Their Application
  • Preface
  • Fungicides
  • Bactericides
  • Nematicides
  • Virocides
  • Applying The Chemicals
  • Spraying Vs Dusting
  • Mixing The Chemicals
  • All-Purpose Sprays and Dusts
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • Part II Classification of Plant Pathogens
  • Preface
  • Fungi
  • Bacteria
  • Viruses, Viroids, Phytoplasmas
  • Nematodes
  • Part III Plant Diseases and Their Pathogens
  • Preface
  • Anthracnose
  • Bacterial Diseases
  • Black Knot
  • Blackleg
  • Black Mildew
  • Blackspot
  • Blights
  • Blotch Diseases
  • Broomrapes
  • Cankers and Diebacks
  • Club Root
  • Damping-Off
  • Dodder
  • Downy Mildews
  • Fairy Rings
  • Fruit Spots
  • Galls
  • Leaf Blister and Leaf Curl Diseases
  • Leaf Scorch
  • Leaf Spots
  • Lichens
  • Mistletoe
  • Molds
  • Needle Casts
  • Nematodes
  • Nonparasitic Diseases
  • Powdery Mildews
  • Rots
  • Rusts
  • Scab
  • Scurf
  • Slime Molds
  • Smuts
  • Snowmold
  • Sooty Mold
  • Spot Anthracnose
  • Virus, Viroid, Phytoplasma – Pathogens and Diseases
  • White Rusts
  • Wilt Diseases
  • Witchweed
  • Part IV Host Plants and Their Diseases
  • Preface
  • Host Plants
  • Color Plates
  • List of Land-Grant Institutions and Agricultural Experiment Stations in the United States
  • Glossary
  • Selected Bibliography