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Knowledge of plant disease epidemiology has had increasing impact in the production-based industry of both the developed and developing world. In the last 50 years European agriculture has been associated with a move towards the simplification of cropping systems. Although cereal monoculture is no longer widespread, large areas are still dominated by the production of autumn-sown combinable crops. The effect of this on the biodiversity of the countryside has been accentuated by advances in the control of the weeds and pests — with consequent direct and indirect effects on non-target species and thus on the food chains dependent on them. Fungicides have had far less deleterious environmental impact, though the vermicidal effects of benomyl and the insecticidal properties of pyrazophos gave cause for concern when these were widely used.
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Cook, R.J., Yarham, D.J. (1998). Epidemiology in sustainable systems. In: Jones, D.G. (eds) The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3302-1_12
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