Disease Control in Crops

  • Publication Year: 2018
  • ISBN: 9781773612973
  • Price: $160
  • Publisher: Delve Publishing
  • Binding Type: Hardcover

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The safe and efficient use of pesticides plays a main role in controlling the diseases of crops. This book explores practical methods for disease control in field and protected crops and outlines current advances in molecular techniques. Healthy crops are essential if yields, quality and profitability are to be maintained. This book covers the recognition, biology, and control of pests and diseases which are a major cause of crop losses, intended to provide a substantive treatment of plant disease management for graduate and undergraduate students in which theoretical and practical elements are combined.

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Arit Efretuei obtained her PhD in Agriculture from the University of Reading, UK in 2015. Her interests are in crop nutrient uptake, soil nutrient management and mitigation of soil nutrient losses to the environment. She is presently working as a freelance agronomic writer.