This book is part of the "CABI Invasive Series", which addresses all topics relating to invasive species, including biosecurity surveillance, mapping and modelling, economics of invasive species and species interactions in plant invasions. Aimed at researchers, upper-level stude…
Management of viral diseases relies on the prevention measures. The current methods for many important crops, both those propagated by seed and those propagated vegetatively, will be outlined, describing the most up-to-date state of knowledge. The chapters were written by expe…
This volume covers control of vegetative propagated crops and follows the previous one on control in seed-propagated ones. While in many seed-propagated plants the virus is not transmitted through seed, plantings from vines, tubers, cuttings from a virus-carrying plant will alm…
This text presents a spectrum of views on the benefits and risks in the use of biotechnology in integrated pest management. It assesses the likelihood of new technologies being usefully incorporated into IPM programmes, and discusses types of new biotechnologies.
The potato: botany, production and uses
A gradual increase in global potato production will help address future food supply and nutrition issues, especially when combined with modern breeding techniques. The major focus of many potato breeding programmes is to improve yield and quality while using fewer production res…
