Managing Diseases in Greenhouse Crops

Managing Diseases in Greenhouse Crops

This hardcover book explains holistic disease control through management of your structure, equipment, environment and procedures.

Contents

Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Greenhouse Production Systems: The Pathologist's View; Greenhouse Structures and Equipment; Sitting and Form; Greenhouse Structures; Covering Materials; Heating and Cooling Systems; Air Circulation and Ventilation; Growing Systems; Soil Groundbed; Peat Bags; Rock Wool and Other Inert Substrates; Nutrient Film Technique; Benches and Containers; Crop Spacing and Training Systems; The Greenhouse Environment and Crop Protection; Algorithms for Productivity; Algorithms for Disease Escape; Temperature; Humidity and Vapor Pressure Deficit; Practical Control of the Environment; Environmental Stress and Predisposition to Disease; Temperature Stress; Water Stress; Osmotic Stress; Fertilizers and pH; Soil Compaction and Oxygen Stress; Low-Light Stress and the Partition of Assimilates; Diseases in Hydroponic Systems; Part 2: Strategy for Disease Control; Eliminating Inoculum; Sterilizing Media; Disease-Free Planting Materials; Pesticides; Limiting Disease Spread; Limiting Inoculum Production; Limiting Inoculum Dispersal; Controlling Pathogen Vectors; Limiting Pathogen Survival; Greenhouse Hygiene; Disease Escape; Manipulating the Environment to Prevent Infection; Plant Spacing and Habit; Cultural Operations; Fertilizers, pH, and Salinity; Quiescent Infections; Resistant Germ Plasm; Biological Control; Allelopathy; Antibiosis; Competitive Saprophytic Ability; Composts and Other Soil Amendments; Cross Protection, Induced Resistance, and Passive Exclusion; Hyperparasitism; Hypovirulence; Suppressive; Soils; Delivery Systems; Integrated Disease Management; References; Index; Color plates