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New Book from APS PRESS is a Complete Update on Strategies to Control Fusarium Wilts in the Greenhouse to Protect High-Value Vegetable and Ornamental Crops.
St. Paul, Minn. (June, 2012)–Fusarium wilts have always presented a challenge to greenhouse growers of vegetable and ornamental crops and an update of the current management practices and recent research results is long overdue.
M. Lodovica Gullino, Jaacov Katan, and Angelo Garibaldi have led this effort to bring together the leading scientists for a worldwide perspective of the topic as reflected by both the international assortment of chapter authors and the research cited. Fusarium Wilts of Greenhouse Vegetable and Ornamental Crops reflects the current thinking fusarium wilts in the context of the greenhouse—an agricultural setting that is increasingly prevalent, particularly for crops both economically important and environmentally significant and their care is vital to our world economy and food supply.
The book begins with a current review of the genus Fusarium, its biology and epidemiology, genetics, and diagnosis. This includes coverage of improved diagnostic tools that permit better discrimination of the formae speciales, a crucial advance that is vital in this century long battle with Fusarium wilts.
Management strategies, cultural practices, and genetic approaches for either preventing or containing the disease are covered in depth and provide an integrated arsenal of tactics—from breeding for resistance, to irrigation, to chemical controls. The case studies in the book provide specific discussions of key greenhouse crops giving the reader applied knowledge for diagnostic and prevention strategies by crop or crop type. Greenhouse growers and those that advise them will gain valuable insight to put into practice right away.
Anyone studying the impact of fusarium wilts will consider this book a major addition to our scientific knowledge on the topic. This text provides a very complete overview of fusarium wilt diseases and many of the most important hosts afflicted by them. The book will be a core resource for students, researchers, and extension professionals worldwide.
Book Specifications and Data
©2012; 8.5" x 11" hardcover; 256 pages; 69 images; 4 pounds; ISBN: 978-0-89054-401-3
This book is published by The American Phytopathological Society (APS) and may be purchased for $169 plus S&H from APS PRESS. To order this book go to http://www.shopapspress.org or call toll-free 1.800.328.7560 USA/Canada or +1.651.454.7250 elsewhere.
Review copies of Fusarium Wilts of Greenhouse Vegetable and Ornamental Crops are available. If you are interested in reviewing this book in your publication and can forward a copy of the published review within six months of receiving the book, please send your request with details of your publication to us here.
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