Infectious forest diseases / edited by Paolo Gonthier and Giovanni Nicolotti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gonthier, Paolo.

Nicolotti, Giovanni.

C.A.B. International.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trees--Diseases and pests.

Trees.

Forest health.

Forest protection.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : CABI, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book reviews the most serious infectious diseases in both forest and urban environments, and in landscape settings, and provides practical guidelines for their management based upon both basic and applied scientific research. It was conceived as a comprehensive reference manual for biotic forest diseases, dealing not only with the better known fungal and fungal-like pathogens, but also with viruses, phytoplasmas, bacteria, higher parasitic plants and nematodes. Following the opening two chapters of Part I, which cover concepts of epidemiology and the management of disease in forests, the book is divided into four further parts. Part II has four chapters on non-fungal infectious diseases, and Part III has 20 chapters on diseases caused by fungi or fungal-like organisms, which are logically arranged on the basis of the tree tissues attacked: root and butt tots, stem rots, vascular diseases, cankers, branch and tip blights, foliar diseases, and then the highly important oomycete and rust diseases. Part IV, with one chapter, covers diseases in forest nurseries. Finally, Part V, also with one chapter, focuses on invasive alien species (introduced pathogens), which figure among the greatest threats to the integrity of forest ecosystems worldwide.

Contents:

Concepts of epidemiology of forest diseases / J. Oliva ... [and others]

General strategies of forest disease management / R.L. Edmonds

Forest diseases caused by viruses / C. Büttner ... [and others]

Forest diseases caused by prokaryotes: phytoplasma and bacterial diseases / H.M. Griffiths

Forest diseases caused by higher parasitic plants / D.C. Shaw and R.L. Mathiasen

Pine wilt disease and other nematode diseases / N. Kamata and Y. Takeuchi

Annosus root and butt rots / P. Gonthier and M. Thor

Armillaria root rots / J.-J. Guillaumin and P. Legrand

Laminated and tomentosus root rots / K.J. Lewis

Heart rots, sap rots and canker rots / R. Vasaitis

Ceratocystis diseases / T.C. Harrington

Dutch elm disease and other ophiostoma diseases / T. Kirisits

Blackstain root disease and other leptographium diseases / L.G. Eckhardt

Cankers and other diseases caused by the botryosphaeriaceae / J.W.M. Mehl ... [and others]

Chestnut blight / S. Prospero and D. Rigling

Other cankers caused by cryphonectria and sibling species / M. Gryzenhout

Cypress canker / R. Danti, G. Della Rocca and A. Panconesi

Pitch canker / T.R. Gordon

Larch canker / T.L. Cech

Hypoxylon canker / M.E. Ostry

Branch and tip blights / P. Capretti, A. Santini and H. Solheim

Dothistroma needle blight / L.S. Bulman ... [and others]

Other foliar diseases of coniferous trees / M. Bednárová ... [and others]

Foliar diseases of broadleaf trees / T. Kowalski

Oomycete diseases / K.J. Hayden, G.E.St.J. Hardy and M. Garbelotto

Tree rusts / R.C. Hamelin

Seed, seedling and nursery diseases / A. Lilja and M. Poteri

Responding to diseases caused by exotic tree pathogens / M. Pautasso.

Notes:

Description based on print record version.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Infectious forest diseases.

OCLC:

850864958

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.