Este compendio cubre las enfermedades y los desórdenes del crisphead, del romaine o de la lechuga romana, del butterhead, y de la lechuga de la hoja (todos los tipos del Lactuca
sativa L.).

Plagas y Enfermedades de la Lechuga (Lettuce Diseases)

Introduction

Origin and History of Lettuce
Types of Lettuce
Production
Lettuce Diseases
Applications of Biotechnology to Disease Resistance in Lettuce

Part I: Infectious Diseases

Diseases Caused by Fungi

Anthracnose
Bottom Rot
Cercospora Leaf Spot
Damping-off
Downy Mildew
Drop
Fusarium Wilt
Gray Mold
Powdery Mildew
Pythium Wilt and Leaf Blight
Septoria Leafspot
Southern Blight
Stemphylium Leaf Spot
Texas Root Rot
Verticillium Wilt

Diseases Caused by Bacteria

Bacterial Leafspot
Corky Root
Marginal Leafblight
Soft Rot of Lettuce
Varnish Spot

Diseases Caused by Nematodes

Lesion Nematode
Needle Nematode
Root-knot Nematode
Spiral Nematode
Stunt Nematode

Diseases Caused by Viruses and a Phytoplasma

Alfalfa Mosaic
Beet Western Yellows
Beet Yellow Stunt
Bidens Mottle
Broad Bean Wilt
Cucumber Mosaic
Dandelion Yellow Mosaic
Lettuce Big-Vein
Lettuce Chlorosis
Lettuce Infectious Yellows
Lettuce Mosaic
Lettuce Mottle
Lettuce Necrotic Yellows
Sonchus Yellow Net
Sowthistle Yellow Vein
Tobacco Rattle
Tobacco Ringspot
Tobacco Streak
Tomato Spotted Wilt
Turnip Mosaic
Aster Yellows

Vectors

Aphids
Leafhoppers
Thrips
Whiteflies
Other Means of Dispersal

Part II: Postharvest Diseases

Brown Stain
Gray Mold
Pink Rib
Russet Spotting

Part III: Injuries and Abiotic and Noninfectious Biotic Diseases

Air Pollution
Allelopathy
Ants
Bird Damage
Bolting
Genetic Abnormalities
Mineral Deficiencies and Toxicities
Pesticide Related Injury
Rib Blight
Soil Crack and Shatter
Soil pH and Salinity
Tipburn
Weather Related Injury