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Phytobacteriology: Principles and Practice
Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9781845930257
Format: Hardback
Publisher: CABI Publishing
Edition: New edition
This book is a comprehensive manual of phytobacteriology is rich in illustrations, over 200 colour photographs and line illustrations. It starts by briefly outlining the history and science of bacteriology and gives an overview of the diversity and versatility of bacteria. It goes on to explain diagnosis of bacterial plant diseases, including detection, characterization and identification of plant-pathogenic bacteria using conventional and molecular methods, and furthermore how bacteria can cause disease and how plants react to this. More
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This comprehensive manual of "Phytobacteriology" is heavily illustrated with over 200 colour photographs and line illustrations. It begins by outlining the history and science of bacteriology and gives an overview of the diversity and versatility of complex bacteria. It then explains the characterization, identification and naming of complex bacteria, and explores how bacteria can cause disease, and how plants react to such disease. The book also discusses the economic importance of bacterial diseases as well as strategies for their control and the reduction of crop losses. It concludes with fifty examples of plant pathogenic bacteria and the diseases that they cause.
