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Author Blancard, Dominique, author

Title Tomato diseases : identification, biology and control / Dominique Blancard in collaboration with Henri Laterrot, Georges Marchoux and Thierry Candresse ; consultant editor (English edition) John Fletcher ; translated from the French by Denise McGee
Edition Second edition
Published London ; Waltham, MA ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, 2012
©2012
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Description 1 online resource (688 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map
Series Color handbook
Color handbook.
Contents Machine generated contents note: The tomato plant and its culture -- Lycopersicon esculentum and related species -- Cultural diversity of the tomato plant and phytosanitary consequences: from extensive to hyperintensive crop production -- Diagnosis of parasitic and nonparasitic diseases -- Symptoms on leaflets and leaves -- Plant growth irregularities and/or deformed leaflets and leaves -- Plants with abnormal growth (dwarfed, stunted, and proliferated vegetation) -- Leaves, leaflets partially or totally distorted (blistered, curled, curved, rolled) -- Leaves and leaflets with abnormal proportions and shapes (smaller, filiform, serrated) -- Perforated, cut, shredded, mined leaflets -- Leaflet and leaf discoloration -- Mottled leaflets and leaves (mosaics and related symptoms) -- Partially or completely yellow (chlorotic), sometimes white, leaflets and leaves -- Leaflets, leaves with other discolorations (silver, bronze, blue-tinge, dull) -- Spots on leaflets and leaves -- Small brown, beige spots, often necrotic in advanced stages -- Brown and beige discoloration, often with necrosis in advanced stages -- Yellow spots with chlorosis -- Spots with powdery, velvety patches; presence of mould -- Wilting, necrosis, and dried leaflets and leaves (with or without yellowing) -- Symptoms on roots and stem base -- Symptoms of roots and/or stem base -- Yellowing, browning, blackening of the roots, sometimes accompanied by stem base symptoms -- Other root symptoms (superficial suberization, black spots, cysts, galls) -- Various symptoms at the stem base and lower stem -- Internal and external symptoms of the stem -- Cankers on the stem (often starting from pruning wounds) -- Other stem symptoms (browning, bronzing, cracks, and growth of adventitious roots) -- Symptoms of vessels and/or pith (yellowing, browning) -- Fruit symptoms -- Fruit distortions (cracks, splits, punctures) -- Fruit discoloration (external and internal mottling, yellowing, browning) -- Fruit spots and other symptoms -- Small spots -- Spots and other symptoms with a specific location (exposed side, peduncular or stylar scars) -- Spots and other symptoms gradually evolving into rot -- Spots in rings, circles, and various patterns -- Principal characteristics of pathogenic agents and methods of control -- Fungi and related organisms -- Air-borne fungi -- 1.Alternaria tomatophila (ex-Alternaria solani) -- 2.Botrytis cinerea -- 3.Didymella lycopersici -- 4.Mycovelosiella fulva (Fulvia fulva) -- 5.Leveillula taurica -- 6.Oidium neolycopersici -- 7.Phytophthora infestans -- 8.Stemphylium spp -- 9.Main other fungi attacking the leaves -- Soil fungi -- 10.Colletotrichum coccodes -- 11.Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. radicis-lycopersici -- 12.Pythium spp. and Phytophthora spp -- 13.Pyrenochaeta lycopersici -- 14.Rhizoctonia solani and Thanatephorus cucumeris -- 15.Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Sclerotinia minor -- 16.Sclerotium rolfsii and Athelia rolfsii -- 17.Thielaviopsis basicola and Chalara elegans -- 18.Other main fungi attacking the roots and/or the stem base -- Vascular fungi -- 19.Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici -- 20.Verticillium dahliae and Verticillium albo-atrum -- Main fungi responsible for fruit rot -- Main control methods influencing the susceptibility of fruit and the development of pathogens -- Bacteria -- Air-borne bacteria -- 21.Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato -- 22.Xanthomonas spp -- Endophytic, vascular, and/or soil-borne bacteria -- 23.Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- 24.Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis -- 25.Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum -- 26.Pseudomonas corrugata -- 27.Raalstonia solanacearum -- Phytoplasmas -- 28.Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris, Candidatus Phytoplasma solani -- Viruses -- Viruses transmitted by contact -- 29.Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV) -- 30.Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) -- 31.Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV) -- 32.Other viruses transmitted by contact -- Viruses transmitted by aphids -- 33.Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) -- 34.Beet western yellows virus (BWYV) -- 35.Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) -- 36.Potato virus Y (PVY) -- 37.Tobacco etch virus (TEV) -- 38.Other viruses transmitted by aphids -- Viruses transmitted by whiteflies -- 39.Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV) -- 40.Tomato infectious chlorosis virus (TICV) -- 41.Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) -- 42.Other viruses transmitted by whiteflies -- Viruses transmitted by thrips -- 43.Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) -- 44.Other viruses transmitted by thrips -- 45.Viruses transmitted by leafhoppers and other insects -- 46.Viruses transmitted by nematodes and fungi -- 47.Virus mode of transmission unknown -- Viroids -- 48.Other viroids -- Nematodes -- 49.Globodera spp -- 50.Meloidogyne spp -- 51.Pratylenchus spp -- 52.Main other nematodes affecting tomato -- Summary tables of control methods against pests -- Resistance to diseases and pests in tomato -- Sources of resistance -- Level of effectiveness and durability of resistance -- Available resistance in cultivated varieties and rootstocks -- Grafting and resistant rootstocks -- Hopes of further resistance in the short term -- Glossary -- Main works of reference
Summary Following the successful first edition, this revised edition, contains 680 pages and 900 color photos and diagrams, covering every imaginable symptom, pest and disease affecting the tomato. This is the definitive work on the diseases and disorders of the tomato, a worldwide crop of significant economic importance. Includes over 300 high quality colour photographsExplains how to examine and identify diseases of the foliage, roots, neck, stalk and fruitEnables readers to diagnose and combat both parasitic and non-parasitic diseases of the tomato plant and fruit
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 669) and index
Notes Translated from French
Description based on print version record
Subject Tomatoes -- Diseases and pests -- Control.
Tomatoes -- Diseases and pests -- Identification.
Genre/Form Guidebooks.
Form Electronic book
Author Candresse, Thierry, author
Fletcher, J. T., 1933- editor
Laterrot, Henry, author
Marchoux, Georges, author
McGee, Denise, translator
Other Titles Maladies de la tomate. English