Compendium of Tobacco Diseases

Compendium of Tobacco Diseases

Author: H. David Shew, George B. Lucas
ISBN: 9780890541173
Pages: 96
Format: 21 Χ 27.4
Binding: Paperback
Pub. Year: 1991

Includes a separate section on disease management which covers integrated pest management and genetic modification.

Table of Contents

Introduction; The Genus Nicotiana and N. Tabacum, Culture and Types of Tobacco, Diseases and Pathogens of Tobacco; Part 1: Infectious Diseases; Foliar Diseases Caused by Fungi; Blue Mold, Powdery Mildew, Brown Spot, Anthracnose, Frogeye, Target Spot, Gray Mold and Dead-Blossom Leaf Spot, Ragged Leaf Spot, Phyllosticta Leaf Spot, Corynespora Leaf Spot, Curvularia Leaf Spot, Scab, Metallic Mold, Sooty Mold, Rusts; Root and Stem Diseases Caused by Fungi; Black Shank, Pythium Diseases, Black Root Rot, Stem Rot, Sore Shin and Damping-Off, Fusarium Wilt, Verticillium Wilt, Charcoal Rot, Tobacco Stunt, Olpidium Seedling Blight, Collar Rot; Diseases of Cured and Stored Tobacco; Barn Rots, Storage Molds; Foliar Diseases Caused by Bacteria; Wildfire and Angular Leaf Spot; Hollow Stalk, Black Leg, and Barn Rot; Philippine Bacterial Leaf Spot; Leaf Gall or Fasciation; Root Diseases Caused by Bacteria; Bacterial Wilt; Diseases Caused by Mycoplasmalike Organisms; Aster Yellows, Stolbur, and Big Bud; Diseases Caused by Nematodes; Root-Knot Nematodes, Tobacco Cyst Nematodes, Lesion Nematodes, Stem Nematodes, Ectoparasitic Nematodes; Diseases Caused by Viruses; Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Potato Virus Y, Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus, Cucumber Mosaic Virus, Tobacco Etch Virus, Tobacco Vein Mottling Virus, Alfalfa Mosaic Virus, Tobacco Leaf Curl Virus, Other Viruses; Diseases Caused by Parasitic Higher Plants; Broomrape, Witchweed, Dodder; Part 2: Noninfectious and Abiotic Disorders; Nutritional Problems; Deficiencies, Toxicities; Environmental Disorders; Frost and Cold Injury, Drought Spot, Leaf Scald or Sunscald, Lightning Injury, Hail Injury, Drowning; Other Abiotic Disorders; ather Fleck, Frenching, Chemical Injury, False Broomrape; Genetic Abnormalities; Part 3: Approaches for Management of Tobacco Diseases; Integrated Pest Management; Cultural Practices, Host Resistance, Chemical Management, Infestation Level; Genetic Modification; Glossary; Index; Color Plates