Plant Nematodes of Agricultural Importance: A Color Handbook
This comprehensive color handbook is about soil and plant nematodes that are parasitic to crop plants. In order to diagnose these damaging nematodes, associating them with crop damage is dependent on determining the symptoms of their effects on plants or plant growth. These microscopic soil and plant nematodes are generally not visible to the naked eye. Symptoms seen above ground are poor growth and yield of the plants, but the specific nematode can only be seen if examining the plant organs including the roots, rhizomes, bulbs, corns, and tubers.
The information presented here addresses nematode damage that affects major crops including: legumes, vegetables, flowers, cereals, fruit and nut trees, tobacco, coffee, sugarcane, banana, and root and tuber crops. The book aims to help people working with these crops to identify and improve the diagnosis of nematodes of agricultural importance. Each nematode is described and specific information is provided on its distribution, symptoms and diagnosis, damage and economic importance, management, and identification. An introductory chapter on biology and parasitism provides an excellent primer on the varying types of parasitic nematodes and their mechanisms for attacking crops.
This essential tool will be useful to a range of professionals including growers, agricultural engineers, nematologists, entomologists, soil scientists, plant pathology, and those working in crop protection, and related agricultural disciplines.
Special Features
# Over 200 color images integrated throughout this hardcover book
# Includes easy diagnosis techniques
# Coverage includes identification, distribution, symptoms, and control
# A glossary of nematological terms and a bibliography of important nematology texts and papers, as well as a helpful index
CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1: Plant Nematode Biology and Parasitism
Chapter 2: Grain Legumes
Chapter 3: Vegetables
Chapter 4: Flowers
Chapter 5: Cereals
Chapter 6: Root and Tuber Crops
Chapter 7: Tree, Plantation, and Cash Crops
Chapter 8: Collection, Extraction, and Preservation of Plant Nematodes for Diagnosis
