PLANT PROTECTION 1 – Pests, Diseases and Weeds

PLANT PROTECTION 1 – Pests, Diseases and Weeds
Vertebrate Pests 239..
Biology 240
No. species in Australia 240
Damage 240
List of some vertebrate pests 241
Spread, conditions favouring 242
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) 243
Control methods 243
Legislation 243
Cultural methods 244
Sanitation 244
Biological control 244
Resistant, tolerant varieties 245
Animal quarantine 245
Pest-damaged planting material 245
Physical and mechanical methods 246
Pesticides 247
Repellents, avicides (Table 49) 248
Rodenticides (Table 50) 249
Review questions and activities 250
Selected references 250
Nematode Diseases 251.
Biology and Identification 252
No. diseases in Australia 252
Some distinctive features 252
Life cycle 252
Method of feeding 253
Symptoms 253
Classification 256
Identification and sampling 256
List of some species 257
Distribution within plants 259
Disease cycle 259
Overwintering, oversummering 260
Spread 260
Conditions favouring 261
Integrated Disease Management (IDM) 262
Control methods 263
Legislation 263
Cultural methods 263
Sanitation 263
Biological control 263
Resistant, tolerant cultivars and rootstocks 264
Plant quarantine 264
Disease-tested planting material 264
Physical and mechanical methods 264
Nematicides 265
Non-fumigant nematicides (Table 51) 266
Fumigants (Table 52) 267
Example of a nematode disease 268
Root knot 268
Review questions and activities 272
Selected references 272
Virus and Virus-like Diseases 273.
Biology and Identification 274
No. diseases in Australia 274
Some distinctive features 274
"Life cycle" 274
Symptoms 275
How viruses infect host plants 276
Distribution within a plant 276
Detection and identification 276
Virus names and classification 277
List of some virus and virus-like diseases 278
Disease cycle 280
Overwintering, oversummering 281
Spread 282
Conditions favouring 283
Integrated Disease Management (IDM) 283
Control methods 284
Legislation 284
Cultural methods 284
Sanitation 284
Biological control 284
Resistant, tolerant varieties 284
Plant quarantine 284
Disease-tested planting material 284
Physical and mechanical methods 285
Pesticides (viricides, insecticides) 285
Examples of virus and virus-like diseases 286
Tomato spotted wilt 286
Tomato big bud (greening, virescence) 289
Virus diseases of roses (rose "mosaic") 291
Review questions and activities 292
Selected references 292
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