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Vegetable Diseases: A Colour Handbook
Steven Koike, Peter Gladders, Albert Paulus
Wiley
December 2006
Hardcover 300 pp ISBN 9781840760750
£99.00
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The diseases that affect vegetables are of great importance to grower, shipper,
marketer, and consumer. This book will be useful to a range of professionals involved
in the production of vegetable crops and focuses primarily on diseases that are caused by pathogens.
Chapters dealing with the general principles of the causes, diagnosis and control of vegetable crop diseases
are followed by crop-based chapters.
Top quality colour photos illustrate the book throughout.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to Vegetable Crops,
Chapter 2: Causes of Plant Diseases,
Chapter 3: Diagnosing Diseases of Vegetables and Other Crops,
Chapter 4: Controlling Vegetable Crop Diseases,
Chapter 5: Diseases of Vegetable Crops, Alliums (onion, garlic, leek, chives), Apiaceae (carrot, celery, parsnip,
parsley), Asparagus, Beet, Crucifers (broccoli, brussel sprout, cabbage, cauliflower, radish, swede),
Cucurbits (cucumber, melon, pumpkin, squash), Legumes (faba bean, pea, bean), Lettuce, Pepper,
Spinach, Tomato, Specialty and Herb Crops (artichoke, arugula, basil, broccoli raab, catnip, chervil,
cilantro, corn salad, dill, endive, fennel, horse-radish, Jerusalem artichoke, lemongrass, marjoram, mint,
mustards, oregano, radicchio, rhubarb, sage, salsify, sweet corn, swiss chard, tomatillo, watercress),
Glossary
Index.
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