The First Book to Fully Address the Systems Approach to Disease Management of Organic Crops
Managing diseases in organic cropping systems is a major challenge to growers in every country who must meet rigorous restrictions. And depending on the crop and climatic region, organic production methods can vary greatly.
Plant Diseases and Their Management in Organic Agriculture is the first comprehensive book that fully addresses the systems approach to organic plant disease management and is a must for any researcher, student, or practitioner involved in organics research, organics production, or regulation. And it is truly an international collaboration with contributing scientists from North America, the West Indies, Europe, and Africa.
The editors have assembled an expert team of authors who:
- Define many terms of the organic arena, as well as trends, regulations, and the many practices in organic agriculture throughout the world.
- Offer an overview of organic production methods, principles, and the various farming systems that affect microbial habitat conditions and, in turn, pathogen fitness and plant resistance. Systems and methods cover rotations, irrigation, resistance breeding, diversification strategies, and more.
- Explain the role of diseases in organic systems and how they are affected by the system itself, particularly in terms of bacterial and fungal pathogens (air- and soilborne), nematodes and viruses.
- Cover the general approaches and methods used for plant disease management in organic agriculture, including rotations, irrigation, resistance breeding, diversification strategies, seed health, direct control of airborne and soil borne pathogens, and chain management.
- Present nine case studies to illustrate the many management methods available in real-world agricultural settings. These case studies feature cropping systems for potatoes, small grains cereals, rice, leguminous crops, vegetables, apples, grapes, bananas and coffee.
Plant Diseases and Their Management in Organic Agriculture offers valuable, detailed information that helps users truly understand various organic farming systems and their effects on plant diseases, nutrients, soil fertility management, habitat management, and diversification strategies. Equally detailed color photographs of plant disease symptoms helps users visually identify a range of diseases that affect their crops, making this book a useful diagnostic aid, as well.
Plant Diseases and Their Management in Organic Agriculture is written by researchers and practitioners of organic plant protection who are bringing together decades of hands-on research and farming experience. It is a much needed addition to the textbooks on ecological agriculture and agroecology used by students, researchers and extension staff as well as for interested farmers, consultants, and other practitioners involved in organic agriculture.
It is not only of value for organic farming but will also be an inspiration for innovative research into other agricultural systems based on ecological methods.
Read the Foreword by Nicolas Lampkin and Sally Miller
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Plant Diseases and Their Management in Organic Agriculture
Foreword
Nicolas Lampkin and Sally Miller
Preface
Maria Finckh, Ariena van Bruggen, and Lucius Tamm
Part 1. General Introduction
General Introduction
Maria R. Finckh and Ariena H. C. van Bruggen
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Part 2. Organic Plant Production Practices
General Principles of Organic Plant Production
Ariena H. C. van Bruggen and Maria R. Finckh
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Organic Production of Annual Crops
Maria R. Finckh and Ariena H. C. van Bruggen
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Organic Perennial Crop Production
Lucius Tamm, Helga Willer, and Ariena H.C. van Bruggen
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Organic Greenhouse Production
Ariena H. C. van Bruggen
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Part 3. Plant Diseases in Organic Agriculture
Organic Management and Airborne Diseases
Maria R. Finckh and Lucius Tamm
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Soil Health and Soilborne Diseases in Organic Agriculture
Ariena H. C. van Bruggen and A. M. Semenov
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Diseases Caused by Nematodes in Organic Agriculture
Johannes Hallmann and Sebastian Kiewnick
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Vector-Borne Diseases
Thomas Felix Döring
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Part 4. Plant Disease Management in Organic Agriculture
Introduction to Plant Disease Management in Organic Agriculture
Ariena H. C. van Bruggen
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Crop Rotation
Carolina Leoni, Walter Rossing, and Ariena H. C. van Bruggen
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Water Management
Steven T. Koike and Michael D. Cahn
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Biodiversity Enhancement
Maria R. Finckh and Martin S. Wolfe
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Resistance and Resistance Breeding for Organic Farming
Walter A. J. de Milliano, Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren, Roeland E. Voorrips, and James R. Myers
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Health Management for Seeds and Other Organic Propagation Material
Eckhard Koch and Steven P. C. Groot
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Direct Control of Airborne Diseases
Lucius Tamm, Bernhard Speiser, and Imre Holb
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Direct Control of Soilborne Diseases
Dan O. Chellemi, Ariena H. C. van Bruggen, and Maria R. Finckh
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Organic Food Chain Management
Ariena H. C. van Bruggen, Eelco Franz, and Gabriela S. Wyss
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Part 5. Specific Crops
Organic Potato Disease Management
Maria R. Finckh, Lucius Tamm, and Christian Bruns
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Organic Small Grain Cereal Disease Management
Maria R. Finckh
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Organic Rice Disease Management
Maria R. Finckh
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Organic Temperate Legume Disease Management
Maria R. Finckh, Tapani Yli-Mattila, Arja Nykänen, Päivi Kurki, and Asko Hannukkala
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Organic Vegetable Disease Management
Steven T. Koike
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Organic Apple Disease Management
Imre Holb, Bart Heijne, and Lucius Tamm
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Organic Grape Disease Management
Lucius Tamm, Ilaria Pertot, and W. Douglas Gubler
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Organic Banana Disease Management
Luis E. Pocasangre, Luis Pérez-Vicente, and Howard Ferris
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Organic Coffee Disease Management
Holger Hindorf, Mekuria Tadesse, Jürgen Pohlan, Odette Weedon, and Maria R. Finckh
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Index
"...will prove to be a core addition to corporate agribusiness, governmental, and academic library agricultural reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists."
—Wisconsin Bookwatch
Publish Date: 2015
Format: 8.5” × 11” hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-89054-476-1
Pages: 414
Images: 249 images
Publication Weight: 4 lbs
Edited by Maria R. Finckh, Ariena H. C. van Bruggen, and Lucius Tamm