Tropical Diseases of Legumes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tropical Diseases of Legumes write by Julio Bird. This book was released on 2012-12-02. Tropical Diseases of Legumes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tropical Diseases of Legumes consists of papers presented at a workshop held at Rio Piedras Agricultural Station, University of Puerto Rico, in June 1974. Legumes are group of plants that provide an important and often sole source of protein in the diet of millions of people. In the growing problem of hunger, there is an immediate need to raise the production of legumes through better knowledge of plant diseases, by ultimate prevention of these diseases, and through improved crop production. Consequently, a workshop is organized and the presented papers, grouped into four parts, are shown in this book. The first two parts describe the rugaceous and mosaic diseases. Bacterial diseases, chemical control, and ecology of pathogens are explained in the third part of this book. The last part explores the origin and improvement of the common bean, as well as its diseases in the tropical Americas. This book aims to provide a stimulating forum for discussion of the findings and observations in tropical legume disease research.
Tropical Plant Diseases
Tropical Plant Diseases - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tropical Plant Diseases write by H. David Thurston. This book was released on 1998. Tropical Plant Diseases available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book incorporates several new developments since the publication of the first edition. Use this reference as a guide to the identification and control of tropical plant diseases. Includes special emphasis on molecular biology, genetic engineering, and integrated pest management. Includes new coverage of: Rice, Maize, Sorghum, Root Crops, Cassava, Sweet Potatoes, Legumes, Soybeans, Peanuts, Bananas, Coffee, Fruit and Nuts, Sugarcane, Vegetables, Cotton, Spices, Tobacco, among others.
Tropical Legumes
Tropical Legumes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tropical Legumes write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2002-06. Tropical Legumes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This National Academy of Sciences report describes plants of the family Leguminosae, all of them greatly underexploited. Some are extensively used in one part of the world but unknown elsewhere; others are virtually unknown to science but have particular attributes that suggest they could become major crops in the future; a few are already widespread but their possibilities are not yet fully realized.Most of the plants described in this book have the capacity to provide their own nitrogenous fertilizer through bacteria that live in nodules on their roots; the bacteria chemically convert nitrogen gas from the air into soluble compounds that the plant can absorb and utilize. As a result, legumes generally require no additional nitrogenous fertilizer for average growth. This is advantageous because commercial nitrogenous fertilizers are now extremely expensive for peasant farmers. This report demonstrates how farmers in developing countries, by using leguminous plants, can grow useful crops while avoiding that expense. However, the plants to be discussed here should be seen as complements to, not as substitutes for, conventional tropical crops.
Compendium of Bean Diseases
Compendium of Bean Diseases - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Compendium of Bean Diseases write by Robert Hall. This book was released on 1991. Compendium of Bean Diseases available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Infectious diseases: Fungal diseases of subterranean parts; Fungal diseases of aerial parts; Diseases caused by bacteria; Diseases caused bynematodes; Diseases caused by viruses; Diseases caused by mycoplasmalike organisms. Noninfectious diseases. Seed Quality.
Integrated Pest Management of Tropical Vegetable Crops
Integrated Pest Management of Tropical Vegetable Crops - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Integrated Pest Management of Tropical Vegetable Crops write by Rangaswamy Muniappan. This book was released on 2016-11-23. Integrated Pest Management of Tropical Vegetable Crops available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is an edited book with chapters written by multi-disciplinary specialists in their specific subject areas. It covers development of IPM components and packaging them for individual vegetable crops specifically targeted to tropical countries. Scientific background for IPM components or tactics will be included. There will be case studies of IPM packages developed and implemented in different countries. The concept of IPM has been in existence for the past six decades; however, a practical holistic program has not been developed and implemented for vegetable crops, in the developing countries. Currently the IPM adoption rate in the tropics is minimal and there is a need for implementation of IPM technologies that are environmentally safe, economical, and socially acceptable. We believe that adoption and implementation of IPM provided in this book will lead to significant reduction in crop losses and mitigate adverse impacts of pesticide use in the tropics. This book is an outcome 20 years of research, development and implementation of the IPM CRSP, a project supported by USAID and administered by Virginia Tech in several developing countries along the tropical belt in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
