Edited
by William W. Bockus, Robert L. Bowden, Robert M. Hunger, Wendell L. Morrill,
Timothy D. Murray, and Richard W. Smiley
Gain access to the
latest and most accurate information on wheat diseases
and pests!
Compendium of Wheat Diseases and Pests, Third Edition
is a must-have resource for anyone responsible for helping to ensure a healthy,
productive wheat crop, including growers, crop consultants, and agricultural
scientists from every discipline.
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Compendium of Wheat Diseases and Pests, Third Edition
is the definitive publication on diseases of wheat, completely updated since the
previous edition published in 1987. Twenty years of advances and new discoveries
about wheat diseases are delivered in this new edition, making it the largest
compendium ever in the 40-book series.
More
than 70 contributing plant pathologists and entomologists, all experts in their
fields, have contributed to this authoritative compendium. A new section on
major insect and mite pests of wheat has been added to make this a truly
comprehensive reference. This new third edition is re-designed to be easier to
use than ever before. It incorporates 50% more images integrated with the
corresponding descriptions of disease symptoms, causes, life cycles, and control
practices.
What’s New in this Third Edition?
32
new chapters – all other chapters are up-to-date
A
major section on insects and mites covers 16 of the most important to
control
88
more images than the previous edition – Nearly all images are new!
90% of the images are in color
70
authors writing chapters in their expertise area
Contents
Introduction
Importance of Wheat
Wheat Production Losses
The Wheat Plant
Genetic Resources of Wheat
Diseases Caused by Bacteria
Aster Yellows
Bacterial Leaf Blight
Bacterial Mosaic
Bacterial Sheath Rot
Bacterial Streak and Black Chaff
Basal Glume Rot
Gumming
Pink Seed
Spike Blight
Stem Melanosis
Diseases Caused by Fungi and Fungus-Like Organisms
Alternaria Leaf Blight
Anthracnose
Ascochyta Leaf Spot
Aureobasidium Decay
Black Head Molds (Sooty Head Molds)
Black Point (Smudge)
Blast
Brown Root Rot
Cephalosporium Stripe
Common Root and Foot Rot and Associated Leaf and Seedling Diseases
Dilophospora Twist and Leaf Spot
Downy Mildew (Crazy Top)
Ergot
Eyespot (Strawbreaker Foot Rot)
Fusarium Head Blight (Scab)
Fusarium Root, Crown, and Foot Rots and Associated Seedling Diseases
Halo Spot
Mycotoxins
Phoma Spot
Platyspora Leaf Spot
Powdery Mildew
Pythium Root Rot
Rhizoctonia Root Rot
Ring Spot Rusts
Leaf Rust
Stem Rust
Stripe Rust
Septoria tritici Blotch
Sharp Eyespot Smuts
Common Bunt (Stinking Smut)
Dwarf Bunt
Flag Smut
Karnal Bunt
Loose Smut Snow Molds
Pink Snow Mold
Sclerotinia Snow Mold (Snow Scald)
Snow Rot
Speckled Snow Mold (Typhula Blight)
Southern Blight (Sclerotium Base Rot, Sclerotium Wilt)
Stagonospora nodorum Blotch and Stagonospora avenae Blotch
Stem Scald (False Eyespot)
Storage Molds
Take-All
Tan Spot (Yellow Leaf Spot)
Tar Spot
Zoosporic Root Colonizers
Diseases Caused by Nematodes
Cyst Nematodes
Root-Gall Nematode
Root-Knot Nematodes
Root-Lesion Nematodes
Seed Gall Nematode
Stem Nematode
Stubby-Root Nematodes
Stunt Nematodes
Other Nematodes Associated with Wheat
