Diagnosing Plant Diseases Caused by Nematodes

hardcover  189 pages, 38 color photos, 83 b+w illus  ISBN 0890542546      £75.00

Use this new book to simplify diagnosis of nematode problems and identify plant-parasitic nematodes. With its descriptive key and detailed drawings, Diagnosing Plant Diseases Caused by Nematodes assists readers in differentiating plant-parasitic nematodes from free-living (microbivorous) nematodes found commonly in the soil around plant roots and within symptomatic plant tissue.

This book features an extensive glossary of nematological and related terms, an appendix covering the five genera of nematodes and their 46 species presently implicated in transmitting plant viruses and an index which makes it possible to locate drawings of one or more representatives of a particular genus and a description of the general characteristics of the genus.

Agronomy, forestry, and horticulture specialists will find this reference book helpful for improving their diagnostic skills in the field, laboratories, and plant clinics.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Plant-Parasitic Nematodes; Survival of Nematodes; Nematodes and Soil Ecology; Symptoms of Plant Injury Caused by Nematodes; Feeding Habits of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes; General Description of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes; Generalized Life Cycles of Nematodes; Diagnosing Plant Diseases Caused by Nematodes; de Man€s Measurement Code; References; Methods; Collection and Submission of Soil and Plant Samples for Nematode Analysis; Laboratory Methods; Mailing and Shipping Nematode Speciemens; Inoculating Plants to Demonstrate Pathogenicity; References; Classification Descriptions of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes; Abbreviated Taxonomic Classification of Important Plant-Parasitic Nematodes; Description of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes; Anguina; Aphelenchoides; Aphelenchus; Belonolaimus; Bursaphelenchus; Criconemella; Criconemoides and Mesocriconema; Ditylenchus; Dolichodorus; Globodera; Helicotylenchus; Hemicycliophora; Heterodera; Hirschmanniella; Hoplolaimus; Longidorus; Macrotrophurus; Meloidodera; Meloido gyne; Nacobbus; Paratrichodorus and Trichodorus; Paratylenchus; Pratylenchus; Radopholus; Rhadinaphelenchus cocophilis; Rotylenchulus; Rotylenchus; Scutellonem; Sphaeronema; Tylenchorhynchus; Tylenchulus; Xiphinema; References; Appendix; Nematode Vectors of Plant Viruses; Virus Transmission Test Procedures; Sites of Virus Retention in Nematode Vectors; References; Glossary; Index; Color Plates