The Role of Plant Pathology in Food Safety and Food Security
This book views the vulnerability of our crops in general to devastating diseases as well as specifically the disease problems of two important staples, rice and cassava. Increased travel and increased transport of plant material throughout the world pose ever more significant risks to the health of...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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| Series: | Plant Pathology in the 21st Century, Contributions to the 9th International Congress ;
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8932-9 |
Table of Contents:
- The role of plant pathology in food safety and food security. 1. Plant diseases and the worlds dependence on rice; R.S. Zeigler, S. Savary
- 2. Development of appropriate strategies to control cassava diseases in Ghana; E. Moses
- 3. Biosecurity in the movement of commodities as a component of global food security; N.A. van der Graaff, W. Khoury
- Global Food Security. 4. ISPP and the challenge of food security; P. Scott, R.N. Strange
- 5. Globalisation and the threat of biosecurity; H.C. Evans, J.M. Waller
- 6. Genetic Modification (GM) as a new tool in the resistance toolbox; T. Hohn, G. Schachermayr
- 7. The role of plant pathology and biotechnology in food security in Africa; J.M. Onsando, F. Wambugu
- Mycotoxins. 8. The secondary metabolite toxin, sirodesmin PL, and its role in virulence of the blackleg fungus; B.J. Howlett et al
- 9. Biological and chemical complexity of Fusarium proliferatum; R.H. Proctor et al. Biosecurity and quarantine. 10. Bioterrorism: a threat to plant biosecurity?; J.P. Stack et al
- 11. The revised IPPC a new context for plant quarantine; W. Roberts
- 12. Pest risk analysis as applied to plant pathogens; F. Petter et al.