Compendium of Wheat Diseases, Second Edition

124 pages, 74 col photos, 115 b+w photos and illus  ISBN 0890540764      £57.00

The most comprehensive wheat disease identification guide in print. Covers more than 100 diseases, disorders, and pests.

Table of Contents

Introduction; The Wheat Plant, Wheat Diseases; Part 1: Infectious Diseases; Diseases Caused by Bacteria and Mycoplasmas; Aster Yellows; Bacterial Mosaic; Basal Glume Rot; Black Chaff; Bacterial Leaf Blight; Pink Seed; Spike Blight; White Blotch; Diseases Caused by Fungi; Fungal Diseases Principally Observed on Seed and Heads; Storage Molds; Black Point (Kernel Smudge); Black (Sooty) Head Molds; Ergot; Scab (Head Blight); Smuts, Common Bunt (Stinking Smut); Dwarf Bunt; Karnal Bunt; Loose Smut; Fungal Diseases Principally Observed on Foliage; Flag Smut; Alternaria Leaf Blight; Ascochyta Leaf Spot; Cephalosporium Stripe; Anthracnose; Dilophospora Leaf Spot (Twist); Powdery Mildew; Snow Molds; Pink Snow Molds; Speckled Snow Mold (Typhula Blight); Sclerotinia Snow Mold (Snow Scald); Snow Rot; Downy Mildew (Crazy Top); Rusts; Stem Rust; Leaf Rust; Stripe Rust; Tan Spot (Yellow Leaf Spot); Halo Spot; Septoria Leaf and Glume Blotches; Tar Spot; Platyspora Leaf Spot; Phoma Spot; Leptosphaeria Leaf Spots; Fungal Diseases Principally Observed on Lower Stems and Roots; Foot Rot (Eyespot); Aureobasidium Decay; Root-Associated Agaricales; Rhizoctonia Root Rot; Sharp Eyespot; Take-All; Pythium Root Rot; Common (Dryland) Root and Foot Rot and Associated Leaf and Seedling Diseases; Primitive (Zoosporic) Root Fungi; Diseases Caused by Nematodes; Cereal Cyst Nematode; Grass Cyst Nematode; Root-Gall Nematode; Root-Knot Nematodes; Root-Lesion Nematodes; Seed-Gall Nematode; Stubby-Root Nematodes; Stunt Nematode; Stem Nematode; Other Nematodes Associated with Wheat; Diseases Caused by Viruses and Viruslike Agents; Agropyron Mosaic; Barley Stripe Mosaic; Barley Yellow Dwarf; Barley Yellow Striate Mosaic; Barley Yellow Stripe; Brome Mosaic; Northern Cereal Mosaic; African Cereal Streak; Cereal Tillering; Cocksfoot Mottle; Enanismo; Maize Streak; Oat Sterile Dwarf; Rice Black-Streaked Dwarf; Rice Hoja Blanca; Tobacco Mosaic; Wheat Chlorotic Streak; Wheat Dwarf; Soilborne Wheat Mosaic; Wheat (Cardamom) Mosaic Streak; Wheat Spot Mosaic; Wheat Streak Mosaic; American Wheat Striate Mosaic; Chloris Striate Mosaic (Australian Wheat Striate Mosaic); Eastern Wheat Striate; European Wheat Striate Mosaic; Wheat Yellow Leaf; Wheat Yellow Mosaic (Wheat Spindle Streak Mosaic); Russian Winter Wheat Mosaic; Other Viruses; Seedborne Wheat Yellows; Diseases Caused by Parasitic Plants; Witchweeds; Part 2: Noninfectious Diseases; Inects and Other Animal Pests; Insects; Loose (White) Ear; Birds; Mammals; Disorders Caused by Environmental (Abiotic) Factors Air Pollution Injury, The Bends (Crinkle Joint); Chemical Injuries; Color Banding; Hail Damage; Frost and Winter Injury; Melanism (Brown Necrosis); Physiologic Leaf Spots; Sprouting, Water Stress (Flooding and Drought); Wind Damage (Lodging); Yellow Berry; Nutrient Imbalances; Soil Compaction; Soil pH; Glossary; Index; Color Plates