Aurelio Ciancio & K.G. Mukerji 
Integrated Management of Diseases Caused by Fungi, Phytoplasma and Bacteria [PDF ebook] 

This volume focuses on integrated pest and disease management (IPM/IDM) and biocontrol of some key diseases of perennial and annual crops. It continues a series originated during a visit of prof. K. G. Mukerji to the CNR Plant Protection Institute in Bari (Italy), in November 2005. Both editors aim at a series of five volumes embracing, in a multi-disciplinary approach, advances and achievements in the practice of crop protection, for a wide range of plant parasites and pathogens. Two volumes of the series were already produced, dedicated to general concepts in IPM and to management and biocontrol of nematodes of grain crops and vegetables. This Volume deals, in particular, with diseases due to bacteria, phytoplasma and fungi. Every day, in any agroecosystem, farmers face problems related to plant diseases. Since the beginning of agriculture, indeed, and probably for a long time in the future, farmers will continue to do so. Every year, plant diseases cause severe losses in the global production of food and other agricultural commodities, worldwide. Plant diseases are not limited to episodic events occurring in single farms or crops, and should not be regarded as single independent cases, affecting only farms on a local scale. The impact of plant disease epidemics on food shortage ignited, in the last two centuries, deep cultural, social and demographic changes, affecting million human beings, through i. e. migration, death and hunger.

Table of Content

Diseases of Perennial Crops.- Integrated Management Of Stone Fruit Diseases.- Towards a Sustainable, Integrated Management of Apple Diseases.- Management and Ecology of Phytoplasma Diseases of Grapevine And Fruit Crops.- Management Of Citrus Diseases Caused By Phytophthora Spp.- Biological Control and Management of Chestnut Diseases.- The Esca Disease Complex.- Integrated Management of Rosellinia n Ecatrix Root Rot on Fruit Tree Crops.- Diseases of Annual Crops.- Simulation Models for Potato Late Blight Management and Ecology.- An Example of Integrated Forecasting System for Phytophthora Infestans on Potato.- Integrated Pest Management Of Bacterial Fruit Blotch Of Cucurbits.- Integrated Management of Tomato Bacterial Spot.- Integrated Management Of Verticillium Wilt Of Tomato.- New Progress in the Integrated Management of Sclerotinia Rot of Carrot.- Integrated Management Of Key Diseases Of Cotton and Rice.- Biological And Integrated Means to Control Rust Diseases.- Advances in Management Tools.- DNA Fingerprinting Methods for Microbial Pathogens: Application to Diagnostics, Taxonomy and Plant Disease Management.- Endophytic Fungi for Pest and Disease Management.