Diseases of Vegetable Crops

Contents: Introduction. 1. Field diseases of beans and lima beans/W.J. Zaumeyer and H. Rex Thomas. 2. Root rots, wilts and blights of peas/W.T. Schroeder. 3. Blights and other ills of celery/A.G. Newhall. 4. The important diseases of Lettuce/Guy Weston Bohn. 5. Cauliflower, cabbage and others/J.C. Walker. 6. Hazards to onions in many areas/J.C. Walker. 7. Control of diseases of potatoes/Eugene S. Schultz. 8. The fungi that cause rot in sweetpotatoes/Harold T. Cook. 9. Preventing the diseases of peanuts/Coyt Wilson. 10. Ways to combat disorders of tomatoes/S.P. Doolittle. 11. Transplants grown in the South/Huey I. Borders. 12. Disease in peppers/S.P. Doolittle. 13. Diseases of beets/Glenn S. Pound. 14. Diseases of carrots/Glenn S. Pound. 15. Diseases of spinach/Glenn S. Pound. 16. Diseases of the common mushroom/Edmund B. Lambert and Theodore T. Ayers. 17. Cucumbers, melons, squash/John T. Middleton and Guy Weston Bohn. 18. Developing healthier vegetables/H. Rex Thomas and W.J. Zaumeyer. Index.

"Knowledge of vegetable crops diseases is several thousand years old and it is not known exactly when man come to know realise their prevalence. The damage caused by diseases of vegetable crops have affected man all through the ages. Besides the recurrence of rusts and mildews of vegetable crops of diseases which caused large scale of death and famine.

This book shall be of great help to the researchers, teachers and students in the field of plant pathology." (jacket)