Infectious forest diseases /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
• Subjects: Trees > Diseases and pests.; Forest health.; Forest protection.; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Fungi.; Nematoda.; Oomycetes.; Phytoplasma.; Epidemiology.; Forest ecology.; Forests.; Fungal diseases.; Guidelines.; Introduced species.; Invasive alien species.; Invasive species.; Parasitic plants.; Plant disease control.; Plant diseases.; Plant parasitic nematodes.; Plant pathogenic fungi.; Plant pathogens.; Plant viruses.; Reviews.; Rust diseases.; Urban environment.; Electronic books.
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This book reviews the most serious infectious diseases in both forest and urban environments, and in landscape settings, and provides practical guidelines for their management based upon both basic and applied scientific research. It was conceived as a comprehensive reference manual for biotic fores...

Table of Contents:

• Concepts of epidemiology of forest diseases / J. Oliva, J.B. Boberg, A.J.M. Hopkins and J. Stenlid
• General strategies of forest disease management / R.L. Edmonds
• Forest diseases caused by viruses / C. Bu<U+00cc>¡ttner, S. von Bargen, M. Bandte and H.-P. Mu<U+00cc>¡hlbach
• Forest diseases caused by prokaryotes: phytoplasma and bacterial diseases / H.M. Griffiths
• Forest diseases caused by higher parasitic plants / D.C. Shaw and R.L. Mathiasen
• Pine wilt disease and other nematode diseases / N. Kamata and Y. Takeuchi
• Annosus root and butt rots / P. Gonthier and M. Thor
• Armillaria root rots / J.-J. Guillaumin and P. Legrand
• Laminated and tomentosus root rots / K.J. Lewis
• Heart rots, sap rots and canker rots / R. Vasaitis
• Ceratocystis diseases / T.C. Harrington
• Dutch elm disease and other ophiostoma diseases / T. Kirisits
• Blackstain root disease and other leptographium diseases / L.G. Eckhardt
• Cankers and other diseases caused by the botryosphaeriaceae / J.W.M. Mehl, B. Slippers, J. Roux and M.J. Wingfield
• Chestnut blight / S. Prospero and D. Rigling
• Other cankers caused by cryphonectria and sibling species / M. Gryzenhout
• Cypress canker / R. Danti, G. Della Rocca and A. Panconesi
• Pitch canker / T.R. Gordon
• Larch canker / T.L. Cech
• Hypoxylon canker / M.E. Ostry
• Branch and tip blights / P. Capretti, A. Santini and H. Solheim
• Dothistroma needle blight / L.S. Bulman, M.A. Dick, R.J. Ganley, R.L. McDougal, A. Schwelm and R.E. Bradshaw
• Other foliar diseases of coniferous trees / M. Bedna<U+00cc><U+00fd>rova<U+00cc><U+00fd>, M. Dvor<U+00cc>Ra<U+00cc><U+00fd>k, J. Janous<U+00cc>Rek and L. Jankovsky<U+00cc><U+00fd>
• Foliar diseases of broadleaf trees / T. Kowalski
• Oomycete diseases / K.J. Hayden, G.E.St.J. Hardy and M. Garbelotto
• Tree rusts / R.C. Hamelin
• Seed, seedling and nursery diseases / A. Lilja and M. Poteri
• Responding to diseases caused by exotic tree pathogens / M. Pautasso.