Compendium of Sweet Potato Diseases

Compendium of Sweet Potato Diseases

Author: C.A. Clark, J.W. Moyer
ISBN: 9780890540893
Pages: 128
Format: 21 Χ 27
Binding: Paperback
Pub. Year: 1988


Contents

Introduction; Importance and Utilization of Sweet Potato, The Sweet Potato Plant, Cultivation and Storage, General Disease Control, Sweet Potato Diseases; Historical Perspective; Part 1: Infectious Diseases; Bacterial Diseases; Soil Rot (Pox), Bacterial Stem and Root Rot, Bacterial Wilt; Disease Caused by a Mycoplasmalike Organism; Fungal Diseases: Plant Bed Diseases; Sclerotial Blight, Slime Molds, Rhizoctonia Stem Canker; Foliar Diseases; Alternaria Lef Spot and Stem Blight, Cercospora Leaf Spot, Phyllosticta Leaf Blight, Septoria leaf Spot, Red Rust, Leaf and Stem Scab, White Rust; Field and Storage Diseases; Black Rot, Charcoal Rot, Circular Spot, Foot Rot, Fusarium Root Rot and Stem Canker and Surface Rot, Fusarium Fibrous Root Rot, Fusarium Wilt, Mottle Necrosis, Phymatotrichum Root Rot, Rootlet Rot, Scurf, Violet Root Rot; Storage Rots; Rhizopus Soft Rot, Java Black Rot, Dry Rot, Punky Rot, Alternaria Rot, Blue Mold Rot, Gray Mold Rot; Floral, Seed, and Seedling Diseases: Nematode Diseases; Root-Knot Nematode, Reniform Nematode, Lesion Nematode, Brown Ring, Spiral Nematode, Sting Nematode, Stubby-Root Nematodes; Virus Diseases; Sweet Potato Feathery Mottle Virus, Sweet Potato Vein Mosaic Virus, Sweet Potato Latent Virus, Sweet Potato Mild Mottle Virus, Sweet Potato Yellow Dwarf Virus, Diseases Caused by Other Whitefly-Transmitted Agents, Caulimo-like Virus, Other Viruslike Diseases of Unknown Etiology, Other Viruses Isolated from Sweet Potato; Part 2: Noninfectious Disorders; Somatic Mutations; Disorders Caused by Adverse Environment in the Field; Souring, Water Blisters, Intumescence, Storage Root Cracking, Chilling and Freezing Injury in the Field, Skinning, Sunscald, Lightning Damage, Herbicide Injury; Disorders Caused by Adverse Environment in Storage; Chilling Injury and Hardcore Internal Breakdown (Pithiness); Nutrient Deficiencies and Toxicities; Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Sulfur, Iron, Boron, Manganese, Aluminum; Part 3: Disorders of Unknown Etiology; Distal End Rot, False Broomrape, Fasciation, Subcutaneous Roots, Alligator Skin; Glossary; Index; Color Plates