A Manual of Assessment Keys for Plant Diseases

Spiral-bound  90 pages, 27 illustrations  ISBN 0890540810      £27.00

This book contains a series of diagnostic keys, each of which is segmented according to the growth stage of the plant and refers users to illustrations of disease symptoms as well as to disease descriptions and guidelines on the back of each page for making disease assessments. The diseases covered are indicated by the following table of contents:

Index of Diseases Bacterial black chaff of wheat, Black stem of alfalfa, Black stem of oats, Common bacterial blight of beans, common leaf spot of alfalfa, Common scab of potatoes, Crown rust of oats, Drechslera leaf blotch or stripe of cereals, Glume blotch of wheat, late blight of potatoes, leaf blotch or scald of barley, leaf blotch of oats leaf blotch or stripe of oats, Leaf blotch of wheat (Septoria), Leaf blotch of wheat (Drechslera), Leaf rust of barley, Leaf rust of wheat, Leaf spot of red clover, Powdery mildew of barley, Powdery mildew of oats, Powdery mildew of wheat, Rhynchosporium leaf blotch of barley, Septoria glume blotch of wheat, Septoria leaf blotch of cereals, Speckled leaf blotch of barley, Speckled leaf blotch of wheat, Spindle streak mosaic of wheat, Stem rust of barley, Stem rust of oats, Stem rust of wheat, Stemphylium leaf spot of red clover, Target spot of red clover, Yellow leaf blotch of alfalfa

Index of Pathogens Drechslera tritici-repentis, Drechslera avenacea, Erysiphe graminis, Erysiphe graminis f. sp. hordei, Erysiphe graminis f. sp. triticic, leptotrochila medicaginis, Phoma medicaginis, Phytophthora infestans, Pseudopeziza trifolii f. sp. medicaginislupulinae, Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae, Puccinia graminis f. sp. avenae, Puccinia graminis f. sp. secalis, Puccinia grminis f. sp. tritici, Puccinia recondita, Puccinia triticina, Rhynchosporium secalis, Septoria avenae f. sp. avenae, Septoria passerinii, Septoria tritici, Spindle streak mosaic virus, Stemphylium botryosum, Stemphylium sarcinaeforme, Streptomyces scabies, Wheat spindle streak mosaic virus, Xanthomonas phaseoli, Xanthomonas translucens