Corn and Wheat Pest and Disease Control Atlas

Author: Chen Guokun et al.
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Publish Date: 2000-06-01
Features: The southern regions of China, located in tropical and subtropical zones, have a wide variety of crops and complex types of plant diseases and pests, which pose significant threats to agricultural production. Under the conditions of a socialist market economy, the variety of pesticides is updated rapidly, and the production of cash crops has developed quickly. Especially with the growing popularity of green food, people are paying increasing attention to integrated pest management and biological control, particularly the use of high-efficiency, low-toxicity pesticides for chemical control. Therefore, accurately identifying various plant diseases and pests and then applying targeted treatments to effectively control them is crucial to achieving the goal of eliminating pests and diseases with the right measures. This set of illustrated guides was organized and compiled by plant protection experts from the Institute of Plant Protection, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences. It is divided into separate volumes based on crop types, including rice, corn, wheat, soybeans, sweet potatoes, sugarcane, vegetables, peanuts, rapeseed, citrus, longan and lychee, bananas and pineapples, tobacco, and tea. Each volume adopts a "text and illustration" format, introducing the morphological characteristics, pathogens, occurrence patterns, and control methods of plant diseases and pests. The color illustrations are aesthetically pleasing and lifelike, while the text is easy to understand. The descriptions of morphological characteristics are accurate, and the occurrence patterns and control methods are straightforward to grasp. Readers can identify and determine the types of plant diseases and pests in the field by comparing them with the ( does not need translation) in the illustrations and then find effective control methods in the book.