Compendium of Peanut Diseases, Second Edition is a guide to the identification, diagnosis, and control of peanut diseases and disorders. Bringing together color photographs and authoritative information in a single volume, this convenient compendium is a valuable resource for peanut growers and crop consultants around the world.This compendium has become a standard guidebook for the peanut industry. The contributors are an international group that includes 50 peanut experts from the United States, India, The Peoples Republic of China, Malawi, Australia, Israel, and South Africa. They offer advice on diseases and disorders found in each of the world's major peanut-growing regions.Detailed descriptions of 55 peanut diseases are the core of the book. Covering diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, nematodes, and viruses, these descriptions present detailed information on symptoms, causal organisms, disease cycle, control, host range, transmission, detection, and epidemiology. In addition to diseases, the compendium also describes peanut disorders caused by environmental stress, insects and arthropods, and parasitic flowering plants. Other sections of the compendium cover beneficial organisms, organisms with an undetermined relationship to peanuts, disease management strategies, genetic modification, and a listing of disease and insect resistant cultivars currently available for use by growers and breeders.

Foliar diseases; seed and seedling diseases; stem, root, and pod diseases; diseases caused by bacteria; diseases caused by viruses and a mycoplasma-like organism; diseases caused by nematodes; disease caused by a parasitic flowering plant.

These three volumes deal with the diseases of primarily cultivated annual edible oilseeds, i.e., peanut (groundnut), rapeseed-mustard, sesame, sunflower, safflower, and nigerseed. It is reliably believed that this book will be of great help not only to students, reseachers, and teachers but also to agricultural extension workers, field workers, seed growers, and seed crop inspectors, and subsequently to the farmers, to achieve the over-all objective of increase in oilseed crop yields throughout the world.

A practical reference and sourcebook addressing the identification, cause, disease cycle, epidemiology, and control of diseases in almond, hazelnut, pecan, pistachio, and English walnut crops in orchards worldwide. The volume is financially sponsored by Monsanto, the Northern Nut Growers Association, and Uniroyal Chemicals, and includes nearly 200 small color plates. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

Infectious diseases: Fungal diseases of subterranean parts; Fungal diseases of aerial parts; Diseases caused by bacteria; Diseases caused bynematodes; Diseases caused by viruses; Diseases caused by mycoplasmalike organisms. Noninfectious diseases. Seed Quality.