Palti, Josef <br/><br/>
Cultural Practices and Infectious Crop Diseases 

 - New York:  Springer- Verlag,  2011 
 - xvi, 243p. 
<br/><br/>1 Climate, Cropping and Crop Disease <br/>1.1 Agro-Ecosystems, the Cultural Practices They Have Generated, and the General Impact of Such Practices on Crop Disease --<br/>1.2 Microclimate and Crop Climate --<br/>1.3 The Collective Approach to Disease Control: Epidemiological Considerations and the Role of Cultural Practices in Regional Management of Inoculum <br/>1.4 Soil, Soil Microbiota, and Soil-Borne Disease <br/>1.5 Stress, Strain and Predisposition<br/>1.6 Crop Age, Injury and Disease on Leaf and Fruit, with Special Reference to Disease in the Ageing Crop <br/>1.7 Weeds and Crop Disease --<br/>2 Major Cultural Practices and Their Effect on Crop Disease <br/>2.1 Cost/Benefit and Risk Assessment and the Complexity of Multiple Choice in Pest Control Decisions on the Farm <br/>2.2 Sanitation <br/>2.3 Crop Sequence <br/>2.4 Soil Amendments and Mulches <br/>2.5 Tillage <br/>2.6 Crop Nutrition --<br/>2.7 Moisture Management in Non-Irrigated Crops <br/>2.8 Irrigation --<br/>2.9 Rate of Sowing and Planting, and Density of Stand <br/>2.10 Sowing and Planting Dates and Manipulation of Flowering and Fruiting Periods <br/>2.11 Harvesting Dates and Practices --<br/>2.12 Planning to Minimize Influx of Air- or Vector-Borne Inoculum to Neighbouring Crops <br/>2.13 Pruning and Grafting --<br/>2.14 Effects of Physical Barriers on Crop Infection and of Optical Means on Virus Vector Control <br/>3 Interactions Between Cultural Practices, Resistance Breeding, and Application of Chemicals: Integrated Control <br/>3.1 Keep Inoculum Out <br/>by Any Available Means <br/>3.2 Prevent Multiplication and Spread of Inoculum <br/>3.3 The Proper Place for Cultural Practices in Integrated Disease Control <br/>3.4 Profit in Fungicide Applications, as Related to Cultural Factors <br/>3.5 Cultural Practices and the Use of Herbicides and Physiologically Active Chemicals <br/>3.6 Hop Wilt in England: Success of Integrated Control <br/>3.7 Some Thoughts on the Future of Integrated Disease Control and its Components in World Crop Production <br/>French, German and Spanish Translation of Some of the English Terms Used in this Book  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>‎ 9783642682681 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Life sciences. Agriculture. Ecology.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>630  / PAL/C