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This book highlights recent advances in the field of plant-biotic interactions and explores current serious issues in the crop production industry. It is intended to attract more attention to these important, but often overlooked areas, and to stimulate new ideas for future research. Plants are constantly under attack by pathogens, pests, and parasites, which can significantly impact worldwide food production and human health. While pathogens and pests attack and interconnect with their hosts in a variety of ways, plants have developed sophisticated immune systems to fight infections. In the field of plant-biotic interactions, most of the studies to date have focused on the function and signaling pathways of plant disease resistance proteins and pattern recognition receptors, as well as pathogen effector proteins. In contrast, this book presents new and emerging research areas, and introduces students, researchers, academics, and policy advisors to the latest trends in e.g. microbial technology, environmental microbiology, agricultural science, the health sciences, biological sciences and other related disciplines.

Microbiology. --- Plant Sciences. --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Microorganisms --- Biomedical engineering. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology. --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Natural history --- Plants --- Clinical engineering --- Medical engineering --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Engineering --- Medicine --- Floristic botany --- Patologia vegetal --- Fitopatologia --- Malalties de les plantes --- Patologia botànica --- Plagues agrícoles --- Fongs en l'agricultura --- Malalties de la vinya --- Malalties i plagues dels arbres --- Malalties i plagues postcollita --- Malalties víriques en les plantes --- Micosi vegetal --- Plantes hostes --- Tumors en les plantes --- Microorganismes fitopatògens --- Paràsits de les plantes

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Plant diseases. --- Plant diseases --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Botany --- Communicable diseases in plants --- Crop diseases --- Crops --- Diseases of plants --- Microbial diseases in plants --- Pathological botany --- Pathology, Vegetable --- Phytopathology --- Plant pathology --- Plants --- Vegetable pathology --- Agricultural pests --- Crop losses --- Diseased plants --- Phytopathogenic microorganisms --- Plant pathologists --- Plant quarantine --- Pathology --- Diseases and pests --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries --- Patologia vegetal --- Fitopatologia --- Malalties de les plantes --- Patologia botànica --- Plagues agrícoles --- Fongs en l'agricultura --- Malalties de la vinya --- Malalties i plagues dels arbres --- Malalties i plagues postcollita --- Malalties víriques en les plantes --- Micosi vegetal --- Plantes hostes --- Tumors en les plantes --- Microorganismes fitopatògens --- Paràsits de les plantes

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Plant diseases. --- Botany --- Communicable diseases in plants --- Crop diseases --- Crops --- Diseases of plants --- Microbial diseases in plants --- Pathological botany --- Pathology, Vegetable --- Phytopathology --- Plant pathology --- Plants --- Vegetable pathology --- Agricultural pests --- Crop losses --- Diseased plants --- Phytopathogenic microorganisms --- Plant pathologists --- Plant quarantine --- Pathology --- Diseases and pests --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries --- Crucíferes --- Patologia vegetal --- Fitopatologia --- Malalties de les plantes --- Patologia botànica --- Plagues agrícoles --- Fongs en l'agricultura --- Malalties de la vinya --- Malalties i plagues dels arbres --- Malalties i plagues postcollita --- Malalties víriques en les plantes --- Micosi vegetal --- Plantes hostes --- Tumors en les plantes --- Microorganismes fitopatògens --- Paràsits de les plantes --- Brassica --- Brassicàcies --- Cruciferae --- Àrabis --- Col --- Naps --- Raves

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Phytoplasma III is the last of three books in the series covering all the aspects of phytoplasma-associated diseases. Phytoplasmas are a major limiting factor in the quality and productivity of many ornamental, horticultural and economically important agriculture crops worldwide, and losses due to phytoplasma diseases have disastrous consequences for farming communities. As there is no effective cure for these diseases, management strategies focus-on exclusion, minimizing their spread by insect vectors and propagation materials, and developing host plant resistance. This book provides an update on genomics, effectors and pathogenicity factors toward a better understanding of phytoplasma-host metabolic interactions. It offers a comprehensive overview of biological, serological and molecular characterization of the phytoplasmas, including recently developed approaches in diagnostics, such as transcriptomics studies, which have paved the way for analyzing the gene expression pattern in phytoplasmas on infection and revealed the up-regulation of genes associated with hormonal response, transcription factors, and signaling genes. Although phytoplasmas remain the most poorly characterized pathogens, recent studies have identified virulence factors that induce typical disease symptoms and have characterized the unique reductive evolution of the genome. Reviewing the advances in cultivation in axenic media together with the perspectives for future research to reduce the global incidence of these pathogens and the associated agricultural losses, the book is a valuable resource for plant pathologists, researchers in agriculture and PhD students. .

Agriculture. --- Plant pathology. --- Bacteriology. --- Plant physiology. --- Plant Pathology. --- Plant Physiology. --- Botany --- Plants --- Physiology --- Microbiology --- Communicable diseases in plants --- Crop diseases --- Crops --- Diseases of plants --- Microbial diseases in plants --- Pathological botany --- Pathology, Vegetable --- Phytopathology --- Plant pathology --- Vegetable pathology --- Agricultural pests --- Crop losses --- Diseased plants --- Phytopathogenic microorganisms --- Plant pathologists --- Plant quarantine --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Pathology --- Diseases and pests --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries --- Phytoplasmas. --- MLOs (Plant pathogens) --- Mycoplasma-like organisms --- Mycoplasma-like organisms, Phytopathogenic --- Yellows viruses --- Prokaryotes --- Patologia vegetal --- Fitopatologia --- Malalties de les plantes --- Patologia botànica --- Plagues agrícoles --- Fongs en l'agricultura --- Malalties de la vinya --- Malalties i plagues dels arbres --- Malalties i plagues postcollita --- Malalties víriques en les plantes --- Micosi vegetal --- Plantes hostes --- Tumors en les plantes --- Microorganismes fitopatògens --- Paràsits de les plantes --- Plant diseases.

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This book examines entomovectoring, which employs crop pollinators to spread biocontrol protections against plant pathogens. The book describes research and development of the process, also known as apivectoring and beevectoring, for use both in pollination and in the delivery of biocontrol agents against crop and pollinator diseases, pests, and parasites. The opening chapters show how design of agrosystems can support the activity of pollinator networks, and describe bee pollination as a natural and cost-free ecological service. Individual chapters cover bumble bees and solitary bees as pollinators. The book outlines ways that entomovectoring can be used to increase biocomplexity and biodiversity in agriculture. Also included is a chapter on the threat of Drosophila suzukii, an invasive fruit fly that infests ripening fruit, and the prospect of improved control using entomovectoring. Another chapter discusses the prospect of using a species of fungus gnat as a potential vector of microbial control agents, to suppress pathogens that they also spread. A wide variety of crops are covered, including apples, strawberries, coffee, and sunflowers. The book describes studies on use of entomovectoring in both open fields and greenhouse settings. Another case study reviews the use of a commercial biofungicide via entomovectoring, to combat storage rot diseases in apples. Coverage also includes Flying Doctors, a precision pollination system that uses pre-collected pollen delivered by bumble bees to replace artificial pollination via dusting or phytohormones. Entomovectoring for Precision Biocontrol and Enhanced Pollination of Crops benefits graduate-level students in agriculture, plant pathology and entomology, as well as academics, researchers, working horticulturists and apiculturists, and those involved in formulating agricultural policy and regulations.

Pollination by insects. --- Insect pollination --- Fertilization of plants by insects --- Entomology. --- Agriculture. --- Plant pathology. --- Plant Pathology. --- Botany --- Communicable diseases in plants --- Crop diseases --- Crops --- Diseases of plants --- Microbial diseases in plants --- Pathological botany --- Pathology, Vegetable --- Phytopathology --- Plant pathology --- Plants --- Vegetable pathology --- Agricultural pests --- Crop losses --- Diseased plants --- Phytopathogenic microorganisms --- Plant pathologists --- Plant quarantine --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Insects --- Zoology --- Pathology --- Diseases and pests --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries --- Pol·linització per insectes --- Patologia vegetal --- Control de plagues --- Control químic de plagues --- Exterminació de plagues --- Lluita contra plagues --- Protecció de les plantes --- Control biològic de plagues --- Control integrat de plagues --- Plaguicides --- Fitopatologia --- Malalties de les plantes --- Patologia botànica --- Plagues agrícoles --- Fongs en l'agricultura --- Malalties de la vinya --- Malalties i plagues dels arbres --- Malalties i plagues postcollita --- Malalties víriques en les plantes --- Micosi vegetal --- Plantes hostes --- Tumors en les plantes --- Microorganismes fitopatògens --- Paràsits de les plantes --- Pol·linització --- Insectes pol·linitzadors --- Plant diseases. --- Pol·linització per insectes.