Virus-Insect-Plant Interactions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123276810 ISBN 13: 9780123276810

Publisher: Academic Press, 2001

Synopsis

In Virus-Insect-Plant Interactions, the world's leading scientists discuss the latest breakthroughs in understanding the biological and ecological factors that define these complex transmission systems and how this knowledge might be used to our advantage in producing innovative, user and environmentally friendly approaches to controlling the spread of plant pathogens by insects. This is an invaluable reference work for researchers, teachers, and students. There are many quick-reference figures and tables, the contents pages include individual chapter abstracts, and each chapter ends with its own bibliography.

• Presents the most significant research breakthroughs of the past two decades
• Contains eighteen chapters by forty-two world-renowned researchers
• Invaluable reference work for researchers, teachers and students
• Each chapter ends with its own bibliography
• Contents pages of forematter include individual chapter abstracts
• Contains many quick-reference figures and tables

About this title

About the Author

Kerry Harris, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.A.
Oney Smith, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, U.S.A.
James Duffus, United States Department of Agriculture, Salinas, California, U.S.A.

From the Back Cover

In the past two decades, researchers have made greater strides in understanding virus-insect-plant interactions then the totality of knowledge gained during the previous fifty years. Much of this progress has resulted from the development and application of new technologies, as well as novel improvements and applications of old ones, to understanding and resolving problems caused by a variety of plant virus-insect vector transmission systems. Forty-two of the world's leading and most respected authorities in this field of research present and discuss these recent breakthroughs and, when possible, their significance with respect to devising innovative approaches to interrupting or suppressing transmission cycles and, hence, preventing or lessening disease spread. The book is comprised of eighteen chapters organized under four subtitles: virus localization in plants and vectors; elucidation of transmission mechanisms; molecular aspects of virus-vector interactions; ecology, epidemiology and control. The volume would be a valuable addition to the library of any researcher, teacher or student of pathogen-insect-host interactions.

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The world's leading scientists and the latest breakthroughs

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0123276810
• ISBN 13: 9780123276810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Harris Kerry F., Smith Oney P., Duffus James E.