Phytophthora: Symposium of the British Mycological Society, the British Society for Plant Pathology and the Society of Irish Plant Pathologists held ... Society Symposia, Series Number 17)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 6/2/2011
EAN 9780521189767, ISBN10: 0521189764
Paperback, 466 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
The seventeenth symposium of the British Mycological Society was held jointly with the British Society for Plant Pathology and the Society of Irish Plant Pathologists. The subject of the symposium was Phytophthora, the organism responsible for many plant diseases, most notably potato blight. This 1991 book presents the results of the meeting in a wide-ranging volume incorporating chapters discussing the history of potato blight, host-pathogen reactions, systematics and intraspecific variation, molecular and genetic studies and the development of effective control methods. Arguably the most studied of all plant pathogens, Phytophthora remains a problem in modern agriculture.
1. The Rev. Miles Berkeley and the blight of the potato
2. Potato blight in Europe in 1845
the scientific controversy
3. Phytophthora infestans
the Mexican connection
4. Host-pathogen interactions
5. Ultrastructural and immunological studies of zoospores of Phytophthora
6. Surface-related host-pathogen interactions in Phytophthora
7. Molecular aspects of host-pathogen interactions in Phytophthora
8. Current questions in Phytophthora systematics
9. Relationships between non-papillate soilborne species of Phytophthora root rot of raspberry
10. Variation in the species of the Phytophthora megasperma complex
11. Molecular approaches in Phytophthora taxonomy using polymorphisms in mitochondrial and nuclear DNA
12. Relationships between Phytophthora species
evidence from isozyme analysis
13. Molecular mapping in Phytophthora infestans
14. Variation in ploidy in Phytophthora infestans
15. Inheritance of virulence and other phenotypic traits in Phytophthora infestans
16. Isozymes in Phytophthora infestans
17. Parasexual genetics in Phytophthora
18. Restriction fragment length polymorphisms in Phytophthora infestans
19. Transformation in Phytophthora parasitica
20. Towards gene-transfer systems and understanding gene structure in Phytophthora infestans
21. Forecasting and control strategies for potato late blight
22. Current problems in chemical control of late blight
the Northern Ireland experience
23. Phenylamides and Phytophthora
24. Synergism among fungicides for control of Phytophthora
25. Development and evaluation of blight resistant potato cultivars
26. Microbial suppression of Phytophthora cinnamomi
27. Chemical and biological control of Phytophthora species in woody plants
28. Strategies for the integrated control of soilborne Phytophthora species
Index.