Cultural Practices and Infectious Crop Diseases

1 Climate, Cropping and Crop Disease
1.1 Agro-Ecosystems, the Cultural Practices They Have Generated, and the General Impact of Such Practices on Crop Disease --
1.2 Microclimate and Crop Climate --
1.3 The Collective Approach to Disease Control: Epidemiological Considerations and the Role of Cultural Practices in Regional Management of Inoculum
1.4 Soil, Soil Microbiota, and Soil-Borne Disease
1.5 Stress, Strain and Predisposition
1.6 Crop Age, Injury and Disease on Leaf and Fruit, with Special Reference to Disease in the Ageing Crop
1.7 Weeds and Crop Disease --
2 Major Cultural Practices and Their Effect on Crop Disease
2.1 Cost/Benefit and Risk Assessment and the Complexity of Multiple Choice in Pest Control Decisions on the Farm
2.2 Sanitation
2.3 Crop Sequence
2.4 Soil Amendments and Mulches
2.5 Tillage
2.6 Crop Nutrition --
2.7 Moisture Management in Non-Irrigated Crops
2.8 Irrigation --
2.9 Rate of Sowing and Planting, and Density of Stand
2.10 Sowing and Planting Dates and Manipulation of Flowering and Fruiting Periods
2.11 Harvesting Dates and Practices --
2.12 Planning to Minimize Influx of Air- or Vector-Borne Inoculum to Neighbouring Crops
2.13 Pruning and Grafting --
2.14 Effects of Physical Barriers on Crop Infection and of Optical Means on Virus Vector Control
3 Interactions Between Cultural Practices, Resistance Breeding, and Application of Chemicals: Integrated Control
3.1 Keep Inoculum Out
by Any Available Means
3.2 Prevent Multiplication and Spread of Inoculum
3.3 The Proper Place for Cultural Practices in Integrated Disease Control
3.4 Profit in Fungicide Applications, as Related to Cultural Factors
3.5 Cultural Practices and the Use of Herbicides and Physiologically Active Chemicals
3.6 Hop Wilt in England: Success of Integrated Control
3.7 Some Thoughts on the Future of Integrated Disease Control and its Components in World Crop Production
French, German and Spanish Translation of Some of the English Terms Used in this Book