Disease resistance in wheat /

This book has 15 chapters focusing on the resistance of wheat to major diseases. Information on the various major wheat diseases and their economic importance are also presented.

Bibliographic Details
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
Series:CABI plant protection series ; 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • Diseases in wheat crop : an introduction / Indu Sharma
  • Stem rust / Sukhwinder Singh, Ravi P. Singh and Julio Huerta-Espino
  • Wheat leaf rust / Brent McCallum, Colin Hiebert, Julio Huerta-Espino and Sylvie Cloutier
  • Resistance to stripe rust in wheat : pathogen biology driving resistance breeding / Colin Wellings, Lesley Boyd and Xianming Chen
  • Wheat powdery mildew / Christina Cowger, Lilian Miranda, Carl Griffey, Marla Hall, J. Paul Murphy and Judd Maxwell
  • Wheat resistance to spot blotch or foliar blight / Etienne Duveiller and Ram C. Sharma
  • Resistance breeding for tan spot of wheat (pyrenophora tritici-repentis) / Pawan K. Singh, Etienne Duveiller and Ravi P. Singh
  • Resistance in wheat to septoria diseases caused by mycosphaerella graminicola (septoria tritici) and phaeosphaeria (stagonospora) nodorum / Stephen B. Goodwin
  • Resistance in wheat to loose smut / Ron Knox and Jim Menzies
  • Resistance in wheat to karnal bunt / Indu Sharma, N.S. Bains and R.C. Sharma
  • Common bunt of wheat : an old foe remains a current threat / Denis Gaudet and Jim Menzies
  • Resistance to head blight caused by fusarium spp. in wheat / Hermann Buerstmayr, Marc Lemmens and Gerhard Adam
  • Resistance of wheat to viral diseases / Antje Habekuβ and Frank Ordon
  • Flag smut of wheat : pathogen biology and host resistance / A.K. Toor and H.S. Bariana
  • Resistance in wheat to nematode diseases / Umarao, Amita Sharma and Daman Jeet Kaur.