Books in the CABI Plant Protection Series series

Disease resistance can help sustain yield potential in cultivated crops. This book looks at disease resistance in wheat, concentrating on all of the economically important diseases - their economic impact and geographical spread, breeding for resistance, pathogen variability, resistance mechanisms and recent advances made on resistance genes.

Plant viruses are formidable foes for cultivated crops in tropical and sub-tropical areas; this book helps readers to understand their versatile interactions with the host and transmission vectors to agricultural production.

Members of the genus Phytophthora cause serious damage to an array of plants. This book provides an overview of species impacting crops, forests, nurseries, greenhouses and natural areas worldwide. It covers major hosts, identification, epidemiology, management, current research, future perspectives and impacts of globalization on Phytophthora.