Agricultural Technical Series - Seed-borne Diseases of Crops

Author: Liu Tibo (Compiler)
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features:
- Official Release – Preface written by the Minister of Agriculture, edited by the Deputy Minister, with a editorial committee composed of leaders from agricultural administration and extension departments, scholars, and nearly 100 senior experts.
- Broad Coverage – Includes crop planting, fruit and vegetable, flowers, edible mushrooms, plant protection, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, animal husbandry, feed, and more, comprising 69 books.
- Accurate Positioning – Serves 1.2 million agricultural technicians and tens of millions of science demonstration and professional households, delivering what technicians want to know and writing in a way that professional households can understand.
This book comprehensively and systematically introduces the sources of pathogens, conditions for occurrence, types of diseases, and control techniques of seed-borne crop diseases. It also elaborates in detail on the characteristics and modes of transmission of seed diseases, the relationship between seed diseases and seed-borne diseases, seed disease testing, field surveys for seed-borne diseases, seed treatment fungicides, and crop seed coatings. The book is rich in content, up-to-date, and practical. It not only explains the pathogenesis of seed-borne and seed diseases from a theoretical perspective but also provides systematic control techniques for these diseases, as well as introducing recently developed crop seed coatings. Seed-borne diseases of crops can serve as a reference for students and teachers in agricultural universities, agricultural technicians, seed professionals, and plant protection workers.