Pests, Diseases and Beneficials

Pests, Diseases and Beneficials

Author: F David Hockings AM

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2014-03-03

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1486300227

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Helps gardeners identify and deal with common insects and small animals that are found in every Australian garden.


Australian Native Plants

Australian Native Plants

Author: Mark Webb

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2013-06-12

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0643106995

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Australian Native Plants provides a comprehensive guide to the horticulture of our native plants. Based on nearly 50 years of experience at Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth, the book describes the necessary growing conditions for mainly Western Australian native plants and covers some of the more technical aspects such as plant propagation and grafting, the use and benefits of tissue culture, methods of seed collection and storage, and the role of smoke in improving germination. Western Australia is home to about five per cent of the world’s vascular plants and contains Australia’s only terrestrial ‘biodiversity hotspot’. Written by experts with an in-depth knowledge of how to grow these plants outside their natural habitat, Australian Native Plants provides the more technically minded professional or enthusiast with information based on decades of research, experimentation and application. It aims to encourage the growing of Australian plants so that they can be used more widely and contribute to interesting, attractive and diverse private gardens and public landscapes in a changing environment.


Pests, Diseases, and Ailments of Australian Plants, with Suggestions for Their Control

Pests, Diseases, and Ailments of Australian Plants, with Suggestions for Their Control

Author: David Lloyd Jones

Publisher: Lothian Children's Books

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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"All common problems suffered by Australian plants are covered as well as many that are not so common. Each pest is listed with its physical description, regional occurrence, host plants, habits and control methods. The emphasis is on natural rather than chemical control so that your plants and garden benefit from minimal ecological interference. You will find information on: integrated pest control; pest feeding habits; beneficial insects; parasitic plants; nutritional deficiencies and toxicities; spraying equipment."--BOOK COVER.


Native plant or weed? 2

Native plant or weed? 2

Author: Ann Loughran

Publisher: NSW Agriculture

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 1760582336

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By popular demand. This book starts where volume 1 finishes. Pick the difference between Australian native plants and weeds. Full colour side-by-side photos of weed and native 'look alikes' with explanatory notes. An essential field guide for land carers, farmers and bush regenerators in coastal and high-rainfall areas


Pests, Diseases and Ailments of Australian Native Plants

Pests, Diseases and Ailments of Australian Native Plants

Author: David Lloyd Jones

Publisher: Reed New Holland

Published: 2015-02-09

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9781877069970

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Amateur and professional gardeners, horticulturists, commercial nurseries and students will find this book invaluable. Pests, Diseases and Ailments of Australian Plants is an authoritative reference on pests, diseases and nutritional disorders of Australian plants, with the authors beingacknowledged experts in this field. This book describes over 300 introduced and native pestsand diseases. To find out what pest or disease is causing a problem, simply check the chart for symptoms. Each symptom is cross-referenced to the text, with colour photographs and detailed line drawings of pests, insect life cycles and damage symptoms on plants to help identify yourproblem. All common and uncommon problems suffered by Australian plants are covered in this book, with each pest being listed with its physical description, regional occurrence, host plants,habits and control methods. The emphasis is on natural rather than chemical control sothat your plants and garden benefit from minimal ecological interference.


Australian Native Plants

Australian Native Plants

Author: Yasmina Sultanbawa

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-12-19

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1315355124

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Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries provides a comprehensive overview of native food crops commercially grown in Australia that possess nutritional and health properties largely unknown on a global basis. These native foods have been consumed traditionally, have a unique flavor diversity, offer significant health promoting effects, and contain useful functional properties. Australian native plant foods have also been identified for their promising antioxidant and antimicrobial properties that have considerable commercial potential. This book is divided into three parts: The first part reviews the cultivation and production of many Australian native plants (ANP), including Anise Myrtle, Bush Tomato, Desert Raisin, Davidson’s Plum, Desert Limes, Australian Finger Lime, Kakadu Plum, Lemon Aspen, Lemon Myrtle, Muntries, Native Pepper, Quandong, Riberry, and Wattle Seed. It then examines the food and health applications of ANP and discusses alternative medicines based on aboriginal traditional knowledge and culture, nutritional characteristics, and bioactive compounds in ANP. In addition, it reviews the anti-obesity and anti-inflammatory properties of ANP and discusses food preservation, antimicrobial activity of ANP, and unique flavors from Australian native plants. The third section covers the commercial applications of ANP. It focuses on native Australian plant extracts and cosmetic applications, processing of native plant foods and ingredients, quality changes during packaging, and storage of Australian native herbs. The final few chapters look into the importance of value chains that connect producers and consumers of native plant foods, new market opportunities for Australian indigenous food plants, and the safety of using native foods as ingredients in the health and food sectors.


Diseases and Pathogens of Eucalypts

Diseases and Pathogens of Eucalypts

Author: PJ Keane

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2000-10-25

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 0643098844

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Over the last fifty years, there has been an increasing recognition that eucalypts are vulnerable to a wide range of diseases. They have suffered destructive epidemics, particularly of dieback caused by the cinnamon fungus in native forests, of foliar diseases and cankers in plantations, and of dieback of remnant trees on agricultural and grazing land. This has stimulated intensive research into the causes and management of diseases of the eucalypts. This work represents a comprehensive review of our current knowledge of the health and diseases of eucalypts.


The Manual of Australian Agriculture

The Manual of Australian Agriculture

Author: Robert L Reid

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 911

ISBN-13: 1483100340

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The Manual for Australian Agriculture is a collection of information related to agriculture gathered from different Australian government agencies that are directly or indirectly concerned with agriculture. The book covers related topics such as land utilization and resource use; government assistance to Australian farmers; the physical and chemical properties of soil; soil mapping; plant nutrition, and fertilizers; and the growing of grain crops. The book also covers agro-industrial, fruit, and vegetable crops; kinds of seeds and their processing and storage; plant pests and diseases; and livestock and poultry. The text is recommended for agriculturists who are engaged in business, as well as those who would like to know more about agriculture in Australia.


Pests, Diseases and Beneficials

Pests, Diseases and Beneficials

Author: F David Hockings AM

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2014-03-03

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 1486300235

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Pests, Diseases and Beneficials helps gardeners to identify and deal with those common insects and small animals (such as bugs, beetles, caterpillars, thrips and mites) that are found in every Australian garden. It offers clear descriptions and full colour images to aid in identifying insects or other organisms, and provides useful advice on how to recognise and treat problems. The book also covers feeding habits, life cycles and insect biology. Based on the 1980 book Friends and Foes of Australian Gardens, this new work has been revised and expanded to include general garden situations as well as Australian native plants, and provides further information on plant diseases, harmless and beneficial fungi, bacteria and viruses, physiological disorders and problems caused by horticultural mismanagement.