B.M. Cooke
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Ascochyta blights of grain legumes
Bernard Tivoli, Alain Baranger, Fred J. Muehlbauer, B.M. Cooke
- Springer
- 4 Septembre 2007
- 9781402060656
Ascochyta blights consistently affect large areas of grain legume production (pea, lentil, chickpea and faba bean) in all countries where they are cultivated. These diseases are capable of causing large yield losses under conducive environmental conditions. This book considers the state of the art by taking a comparative approach of Ascochyta blight diseases of cool season food and feed legumes. Topics considered are pathogen diversity, legume genetics and breeding, and integrated disease management.
Reprinted from European Journal of Plant Pathology, Volume 119, No. 1, 2007 -
Sustainable strategies for managing Brassica napus (oilseed rape) resistance to Leptosphaeria maculans (phoma stem canker)
B.D.L. Fitt, N. Evans, B.J. Howlett, B.M. Cooke
- Springer
- 10 Juillet 2006
- 9781402045257
Control of phoma stem canker in oil rapeseed crops typically depends on cultivars resistant to L. Maculans, the virus that causes it. Recently, virus populations have overcome resistance, causing serious canker outbreaks in Australia and Europe. There is an urgent need to find sources of resistance to L. maculans. This book synthesizes studies in management of resistance genes control L. maculans, and will stimulate further research on this important model system.
