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“Managing Diseases in Greenhouse Crops will stimulate growers and horticulturists to think in terms of crop protection, and exponents of crop protection to think how their science can be integrated smoothly into economic production practices. This hardcover book is fully referenced, will indexed, and for a technical reference, written in a language that is easily understood. Although the book was primarily written for greenhouse growers in the cooler regions of North America, the fundamental disease control measures outlined in the text are applicable to greenhouse growers across all climate zones.”
-- Practical Hydroponics & Greenhouses

This hardcover book explains holistic disease control through management of your structure, equipment, environment and procedures.

1992; 6" × 9" hardcover; 288 pages; 27 color photographs; 41 black and white photographs and illustrations; ISBN 0-89054-122-1; (2 pounds)

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Greenhouse Production Systems: The Pathologist's View; Greenhouse Structures and Equipment; Sitting and Form; Greenhouse Structures; Covering Materials; Heating and Cooling Systems; Air Circulation and Ventilation; Growing Systems; Soil Groundbed; Peat Bags; Rock Wool and Other Inert Substrates; Nutrient Film Technique; Benches and Containers; Crop Spacing and Training Systems; The Greenhouse Environment and Crop Protection; Algorithms for Productivity; Algorithms for Disease Escape; Temperature; Humidity and Vapor Pressure Deficit; Practical Control of the Environment; Environmental Stress and Predisposition to Disease; Temperature Stress; Water Stress; Osmotic Stress; Fertilizers and pH; Soil Compaction and Oxygen Stress; Low-Light Stress and the Partition of Assimilates; Diseases in Hydroponic Systems; Part 2: Strategy for Disease Control; Eliminating Inoculum; Sterilizing Media; Disease-Free Planting Materials; Pesticides; Limiting Disease Spread; Limiting Inoculum Production; Limiting Inoculum Dispersal; Controlling Pathogen Vectors; Limiting Pathogen Survival; Greenhouse Hygiene; Disease Escape; Manipulating the Environment to Prevent Infection; Plant Spacing and Habit; Cultural Operations; Fertilizers, pH, and Salinity; Quiescent Infections; Resistant Germ Plasm; Biological Control; Allelopathy; Antibiosis; Competitive Saprophytic Ability; Composts and Other Soil Amendments; Cross Protection, Induced Resistance, and Passive Exclusion; Hyperparasitism; Hypovirulence; Suppressive; Soils; Delivery Systems; Integrated Disease Management; References; Index; Color plates

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