1st Edition

Plant Pathogenesis and Disease Control

By Hachiro Oku Copyright 1993
208 Pages
by CRC Press

208 Pages
by CRC Press

208 Pages
by CRC Press

Environmental pollution resulting from widespread pesticide application has become a serious worldwide problem. Plant Pathogenesis and Disease Control is an important new reference that addresses this problem by exploring the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of plant pathogenesis and emphasizing the use of "pest control agents" rather than "pesticides" for plant disease control. Topics... Read more
Introduction: Basic Principles for Plant Disease Control 1. Pathogens and Pathogenicity 2. Resistance of Plants Against Pathogens 3. Defense and Offense Between Higher Plants and Microbes and the Mechanism 4. Disease Control Agents Based on Knowledge of Pathogenicity and Disease Resistance 5. Systemic Induced Resistance as a Tool for Disease Control 6. Biotechnology for Plant Disease Control

Biography

Oku, Hachiro