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Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook by R. Kenneth Horst

By R. Kenneth Horst

Westcott's Plant affliction instruction manual, seventh version, can be necessary to somebody with a willing curiosity in gardening together with yet now not constrained to botanical gardeners, panorama architects, florists, grasp gardeners, nurserymen, seed and fungicide purchasers, pesticide applicators, arborists, cooperative extension brokers, plant pathologists and consultants.
The 7th version makes use of the normal handy structure of earlier versions supplying easy accessibility to crucial details speedy with exact dictionary-type entries on plant hosts and on symptoms.
New and up-to-date fabric includes:
(1) major taxonomic adjustments in fungi, micro organism, viruses and nematodes, (2)Recently stumbled on ailments and new hosts for formerly identified plant-pathogens, (3) adjustments in chemical compounds and insecticides and adjustments in laws governing their use, (4) built-in pest administration and organic control.
This publication additionally presents worthwhile go references, indexes, illustrative plates of 34 key illnesses, and forty black and white illustrations of alternative illnesses.

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Et al. 1996. Virus of Plants. Descriptions and List from the VIDE Database, Van Regenmortel et al. 1999. Virus Taxonomy. 7th Report. ICTV and Descriptions of Plant Viruses, published by the Commonwealth Mycological Institute and Association of Applied Biologists. Other helpful sources were European Handbook of Plant Diseases (1988) by I. M. Smith, J. Dunez, R. A. Lelliott, D. W. Phillips and S. A. Archer and A Textbook of Plant Virus Diseases, 1972 edition, by Kenneth M. Smith. So far as possible, the genera, orders, and families of fungi agree with those given in Plant Pathogenic Fungi (1987) by J.

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The only family in this order but with two important genera: Plasmodiophora, causing club root, and Spongospora, causing potato scab. Oomycota The thalli may be vesicular, often irregular, but are usually filamentous. Sporangia on germination release biflagellate zoospores. One flagellum is the whip-lash type and the other the tinsel type. Motile sex cells are absent. Sessile gametangial cells conjugate and form an oogonium containing one or several egg cells (see Fig. 1). The Oomycota are related to autotrophic algae with similar characters.

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