Diseases of Plantation Crops

Contents: Introduction. Cotton: 1. Fusarium and Nematodes on cotton/Albert L. Smith. 2. The rot that attacks 2,000 species/Lester M. Blank. 3. Verticillium Wilt of Cotton/J.T. Presley. 4. Anthracnose and some blights/Albert L. Smith. 5. Bacteria and fungi on seedlings/David C. Neal. 6. The leaf spots of cotton plants/Lester M. Blank. 7. Nonparasitic disorders of cotton/W. Hardy Tharp. Food and feed grains: 8. Root rots of wheat, oats, rye, barley/J.J. Christensen. 9. The rusts of wheat, oats, barley, rye/John H. Martin and S.C. Salmon. 10. Leaf and head blights of cereals/James G. Dickson. 11. Virus diseases of cereal crops/H.H. McKinney. 12. The smuts of wheat, oats, barley/C.S. Holton and V.F. Tapke. 13. Four enemies of sorghum crops/R.W. Leukel and John H. Martin. 14. Infections of corn seedlings/Paul E. Hoppe. 15. Some of the leaf blights of corn/Alice L. Robert. 16. Some smuts and rusts of corn/Arnold J. Ullstrup. 17. Several ear rots of corn/Arnold J. Ullstrup. Sugar crops: 18. Some problems in growing sugar beets/George H. Coons. 19. Rots, blights, and leaf diseases of Sorgo/E.V. Abbott and P.E. Bouchereau. 20. Sugarcane and its diseases/E.V. Abbott. 21. Red rot of sugarcane/E.V. Abbott. The tobacco plant: 22. Developments in growing tobacco/E.E. Clayton. 23. The genes that mean better tobacco/E.E. Clayton. 24. Crop rotations and tobacco/J.G. Gaines and F.A. Todd. 25. Soil fumigation to control root ills/J.G. Gaines and T.W. Graham. Miscellaneous: 26. Wilt, rust, and pasmo of flax/H.H. Flor. 27. Some important diseases of coffee/Frederick L. Wellman. Index.

"This book of "Diseases of Plantation Crops" has been written to meet the requirement of students, teachers and researchers in the field of plant pathology.

This work has been divided into 27 chapters related to diseases of cotton, food and feed grains, sugar crops, tobacco plant, flax and coffee. In presenting the information of an each crop diseases the information cited is proportional to its importance. Thus, the information and view have been arranged in an orderly sequence. It has been written in a simple language. It is hoped that this will prove quite useful to students and researchers." (jacket)