Covering the important pathogens, this handbook provides concise descriptions of the symptoms and cycles of diseases, their distribution and economic importance and advice on their control. It also includes 'pest profiles' that identify with the use of colour photographs, the pe…
"Building on his earlier Colour Atlas of Fruit Pests, David Alford provides in this new book an authoritative illustrated account of fruit, hop and nut pests in temperate and subtropical climates. Pests of Fruit Crops focuses on insects and mites affecting pome fruits, stone fru…
The avocado: botany, production, and uses
The portending process of climate change, induced by the anthropogenic accumulations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, is likely to generate effects that will cascade through the biosphere, impacting all life on earth and bearing upon human endeavors. Of special concern is …
