Root Diseases and Soil-Borne Pathogens / edited by T. A. Toussoun, Robert Bega, and Paul E. Nelson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Toussoun, T. A., 1925- editor.

Bega, Robert V., 1928- editor.

Nelson, Paul E., 1927- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soil microbiology--Congresses.

Soil microbiology.

Roots (Botany)--Diseases and pests--Congresses.

Roots (Botany).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1970]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived.

Contents:

Root Diseases and Soil-Borne Pathogens

Frontmatter

Foreword

Preface

Chairmen of Symposium Sessions

Contents

PART I. INTRODUCTION

Recent Advances in the Study of the Ecology of Soil-borne Plant Pathogens

PART II. POPULATION DYNAMICS OF PATHOGENS IN SOIL

Use of Population Studies in Research on Plant Pathogens in Soil

Factors Affecting Plant Pathogen Population in Soil

Significance of Populations of Major Plant Pathogens in Soil: Bacteria Including Streptomyces

Significance of Populations of Pythium and Phytophthora in Soil

The Significance of Populations of Pathogenic Fusaria in Soil

Significance of Population Level of Verticillium in Soil

Significance of Population Level of Rhizoctonia solani in Soil

Measurement of Host Reactions to Soil-borne Pathogens

PART III. GENETICAL ASPECTS OF PATHOGENIC AND SAPROPHYTIC BEHAVIOR IN ROOT-INFECTING FUNGI

Genetical Aspects of Pathogenic and Saprophytic Behaviour of Soil-borne Fungi: BcLsidiomycetes with Special Reference to Thanatephorus cucumeris

Genetical Aspects of Pathogenic and Saprophytic Behavior of the Phycomycetes with Special Reference to Phytophthora

The Genetics of Asexual Phytopathogenic Fungi with Special Reference to Verticillium

Mechanisms of Variation in Culture and Soil

The Significance of Genetic Mechanisms in Soil Fungi

PART IV. EFFECT OF SOIL MOISTURE AND AERATION ON FUNGAL ACTIVITY WITH ROOT DISEASES

Effect of Soil Moisture and Aeration on Fungal Activity: an Introduction

Effect of Soil Water on Microbial Growth, Antagonism, and Nutrient Availability in Relation to Soil-borne Fungal Diseases of Plants

Effect of Aeration and of Concentration of Carbon Dioxide on the Activity of Plant Pathogenic Fungi in the Soil

PART V. EFFECT OF ROOT EXUDATES ON ROOT INFECTION

Nutrition and Pathogenesis of Fusarium solani /. sp. phaseoli

The Influence of Cottonseed Exudate on Seedling Infection by Rhizoctonia solani

Some Factors Involved in the Accumulation of Phycomycete Zoospores on Plant Roots

Tactic Responses of Zoospores of Phytophthora

Germination of Chlamydospores of Phytophthora

Factors Affecting the Prepenetration Phase of Infection by Rhizoctonia solani

Armillaria mellea Infection Structures: Rhizomorphs

The Significance of Vesicular-arbuscular Mycorrhizae in Plant Nutrition

Response of Resting Structures of Root-Infecting Fungi to Host Exudates: An Example of Specificity

The Influence of Root Exudates on the Activity of Some Plant-parasitic Nematodes

PART VI. ROOT DISEASES OF FOREST CROPS

The Role of Basidiospores in Stump Infection by Armillaria mellea

The Ecology of Armillaria mellea: Rhizomorph Growth Through Soil

Armillaria mellea (Vöhl ex Fries) Kummer in Central Africa: Studies on Substrate Colonisation Relating to the Mechanism of Biological Control by Ring-barking

Fomes annosus in the Southern United States

Fomes annosus in Eastern Canada

The Role of Resin in the Resistance of Conifers to Fomes annosus

Poria Root Rot: Problems and Progress in the Pacific Northwest

Root Rot Induced by Polyporus tomentosus in Pine and Spruce Plantations in Wisconsin

The Influence of Soil Bacteria on the Mode of Infection of Pine Roots by Phytophthora cinnamomi

Phytophthora cinnamomi in New Zealand

PART VII. ROOT DISEASES OF TROPICAL PLANTATION CROPS

A Comparison of Methods of Dispersal, Survival, and Parasitism in Some Fungi Causing Root Diseases of Tropical Plantation Crops

Studies on the Parasitism and Control of Tea Root Disease Fungi in Ceylon

Economics of Control of the White Root Disease (Fomes lignosus) of Hevea brasiliensis in Ceylon

Some Factors in the Control of Root Diseases of Oil Palm

Banana Root Diseases Caused by Fusarium oxysporum /. sp. cubense, Pseudomonas solanacearum, and Radopholus similis: A Comparative Study of Life Cycles in Relation to Control

PART VIII. CROP GROWTH RESPONSES TO SOIL FUMIGATION

One Centennium of Soil Fumigation: Its First Years

A Concept of Rootlet Health of Strawberries in Pathogen-free Field Soil Achieved, by Fumigation

Increased and Decreased Plant Growth Responses Resulting from Soil Fumigation

Nutrition of Young Conifers and Soil Fumigation

Growth Response of Rice to Soil Fumigation

Physical Soil Factors and Soil Fumigant Action

Selective Killing of Soil Microorganisms by Aerated Steam

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780520339941

0520339940

OCLC:

1198929806