Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture
Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture

Author: Michel Luc

Publisher: Cabi

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 871

ISBN-13: 9780851997278

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This book contains 22 chapters, 2 appendices (of the nematicides and species mentioned throughout the book) and 24 colour plates covering all aspects of practical plant nematology in subtropical and tropical agriculture, including rice, cereals, sweet potatoes, root and tuber crops, food legumes, vegetables, groundnut, citrus, tree and fruit crops, coconut and other palms, coffee, cocoa, tea, bananas, sugarcane, tobacco, pineapple, cotton, other tropical fibres, spices and medicinal plants. It provides practical guidance on the methods of extracting, processing and diagnosing different plant and soil nematodes and on integrated nematode management. This book is intended for those studying and working in the area of crop protection.

Screening of Banana Germplasm for Resistance and Tolerance to Nematode
Screening of Banana Germplasm for Resistance and Tolerance to Nematode

Author: Alagarsamy Nithya Devi

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9783843394925

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Banana is the most popular fruit in terms of per capita consumption and world's most widely traded fruit.Worldwide, nematodes are considered as the most important pest of bananas and plantains.The burrowing nematode, root-lesion nematode and root-knot nematode are economically important.The cost of nematode management using nematicides is quite prohibitive.Availability of nematode resistant or tolerant Musa cultivars could contribute to improve the productivity at a lesser cost with no pollution.More concerted efforts to identify nematode resistant or tolerant Musa genotypes is needed.The study aims at identifying nematode resistant diploid and triploid accessions, investigating histological and biochemical basis of resistance and identification of RAPD markers associated with the nematode resistance.The findings have been published in a book form entitled "Screening of Banana Germplasm for resistance and tolerance to nematodes."The key findings indicated that some of the accessions showed multiple resistance to nematodes.This book would be much useful to horticulturists, pathologists, biotechnologists, studen ts involved in biotic stress research, banana growers

Banana Nematodes and Weevil Borers in Asia and the Pacific
Banana Nematodes and Weevil Borers in Asia and the Pacific

Author: Ramón V. Valmayor

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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Opening remarks; Meeting rationale; Opening address; Introductory lecture - plant parasitic nematodes, a potential threat to connercial cultivation of banana in Malaysia; Status of nematode and weevil borer problems affecting banana in Australia; Status of nematode and weevil borer problems affecting banana in China; Status of nematode problems affecting banana in Indonesia; Status of nematode problems affecting banana in Malaysia; Status of nematode and weevil borer problems affectingbanana in the Philippines; Status of nematode and weevil borer problems problems affecting banana in some of the pacific Islands; Status of weevil borer problems affecting banana in thailand; Status of nematode and weevil borer problems affecting banana in Thailand; Control of the banana weevil borer, Cosmopolites sordidus, with entomopathogenic nematodes; Biological control of banana nematodes: development of BIOCON (BIOACT) and BIOCON II Technologies; A review of control strategies for banana pests as part of the research priorities at NRI and Associated Institutes in the UK; CIRAD-FLHOR research actions on nematodes andblack borer weevil of bananas and plantains; Assessment of banana weevils in East African Highland banana systems and strategies for controlAssessment of nematode damage in East African highland banana systems;Prospects to engineer nematode resistance in banana; Control strategies against burrowing nematode in bananas: A north queensland perspective; Plant quarantine measures for the movement of banana germplasm.