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- The book offers necessary information on biotic and abiotic stresses that adversely affect the wheat production
- Includes several illustrations to comprehend their diagnosis and epidemiological aspects, and control
- It offers up dated information including re-occurrence of old diseases and emergence of new diseases as well as new races of pathogens, and their impact on global wheat production
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Wheat Diseases and Their Management addresses biotic and abiotic constrains to wheat production. Besides detailed illustrations and descriptions of the most important diseases of wheat in the world, it offers an updated view on the reemergence of some old diseases and the occurrence of new races of the pathogen. It deals with the sustainability of wheat production through precision agriculture and focuses on the importance of conservation tillage. The book also deals with pillars of integrated disease management which would be eco-friendly and reduce severity of diseases and yield losses, with acquired Latin-American experiences of more than 40 years.
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Book Title: Wheat Diseases and Their Management
Authors: Yeshwant Ramchandra Mehta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06465-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06464-2Published: 27 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35996-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06465-9Published: 13 August 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 256
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 76 illustrations in colour