Overview
- High number of pictures of insects and plant symptoms
- Update on phytoplasma diseases epidemiology and control methods in the tropics
- Relevant recent information on phytoplasma diseases in tropical crops compiled in 2 volume book accessible to scientists and growers
Part of the book series: Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection (SUPP, volume 12)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Phytoplasma diseases are associated by bacteria-like pathogens living in plant sap and spread by sap-feeding insects. They are emerging diseases and are difficult to control, mostly because their epidemiology is not known. This book will focus on detection and prevention of phytoplasma diseases in field and horticultural crops grown in the tropical belt. The book will review current prevention methods used in small and large-scale farms, and present research results aiming at developing sustainable management of phytoplasma diseases in the tropics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Chrystel Olivier is a Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Saskatoon Research and Development Centre (AAFC) since 2001. Her research interests includes phytoplasma disease epidemiology and management in field crops. Her lab worked extensively on aster yellow disease epidemiology and control in canola and cereal crops and on leafhopper population associated with the disease.
Tim J. Dumonceaux has been a Research Scientist at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Saskatoon Research and Development Centre (AAFC) since 2009. His research interests include molecular diagnostics of plant and animal pathogens, the impacts of microbial communities on a variety of agricultural ecosystems, and the applications of white-rot fungi in the production of biofuels. His lab has developed a suite of tools for identifying and characterizing phytoplasmas based on the universal microbial barcode chaperonin-60 (cpn60), and he maintains an interest in applying thesetools to the detection, characterization, and quantification of phytoplasma infections in plant and insect tissues.
Edel Pérez-López is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, Biology Department, working with clubroot and the soil-borne obligate parasite Plasmodiophora brassicae, although he keeps actively collaborating in research projects related to the identification and characterization of phytoplasmas in South America, Saudi Arabia and Canada. Edel has been working with phytoplasmas affecting crops in Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Canada, and Saudi Arabia since 2012, working also on the development of diagnostic methods to identify and characterize this group of plant pathogenic bacteria.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Management of Phytoplasma Diseases in Crops Grown in the Tropical Belt
Book Subtitle: Biology and Detection
Editors: Chrystel Y. Olivier, Tim J. Dumonceaux, Edel Pérez-López
Series Title: Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29650-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Crown 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29649-0Published: 06 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29652-0Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29650-6Published: 05 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2567-9805
Series E-ISSN: 2567-9821
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 268
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Pathology, Ecology, Bacteriology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics