Plant-Microbe Interactions and Biological Control
Published on 5. January 1998
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-0-8247-0043-0 (ISBN)
Description
Discusses the critical role of host-pathogen interactions in developing new and alternative biocontrol agents that promote plant health and disease resistance in crop pathosystems. Describes state-of-the-art as well as future technologies leading to more effective biological control programs.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8247-0043-0 (9780824700430)
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Content
Diversity in soil-borne microbial communities - a tool for biological system management of root health; biological control of fusarium wilts - towards development of commercial products; use of sporidesmium sclerotivorum for biocontrol of sclerotial plant pathogens; strategies for biological control of necrotrophic fungal foliar pathogens; powdery mildews - recent advances toward integrated control; biological control with trichoderma species; biological control strategies for sclerotinia diseases; biological control of postharvest disease; biocontrol of postharvest diseases of temperate fruits - challenges and opportunities; selection, characterization, and use of microbial antagonists of the control of fusarium dry rot of potatoes; biological control of weeds using microorganisms; formulating microorganisms for biological control of weeds; control of cucumber mosaic virus using viral satellites; enhancement of biological nitrogen fixation using strain-specific bacterial viruses for biological control of ineffective bradyrhizobium or rhizobium; chitinolytic enzymes of fungi and their involvement in biocontrol of plant pathogens; impact of liquid culture physiology, environment, and metabolites on biocontrol agent qualities - pseudomonas fluorescence 2-79 versus wheat take-all; genetic analysis of selected antifungal metabolites produced by pseudomonas aureofaciens; molecular probes and assays useful to identify plant pathogenic fungi, bacteria, and marked biocontrol agents; genetic approaches for analysis and manipulation of rhizosphere colonization by bacterial biocontrol agents.