Plant Disease Control(Paperback)

Despite our vaunted technological progress in industry and agriculture, the provision of sufficient food for ourselves and for others in the immediate future is a cause for vrave concern for agricultural scientists and for the governments of developing nations with exploding populations. The future provision of our daily bread will be no easy task and few people appreciate the technology that is required to provide the thousands of processed food items displayed in the average supermarket. There are many factors that may and do limit world food production. For the commercial grower of wheat, rice, soybeans, maize (corn), and fruits and vegetables—the farmer—a crop failure or a significant reduction in productivity may mean the difference between profit and loss.

In this book an attempt has been made to organize the available in formation on modern tools for the prevention of losses caused by plant diseases. It is hoped that this compilation of fungicide facts will help to draw aside the curtain of confusion and misinformation generated by overzealous environmentalists and misinformed conservationists that has cast a stigma of unfounded belief that chemicals for plant disease control.

For more than a quarter of a century the author served as the “Hoosier Plant Doctor” at Purdue University with the major responsibility for preparing plant disease control recommendations for Hoosier farms and backyard gardens. This reference was prepared with the assistance of many professional friends in land-grant universities and the agricultural chemical industry. Their help and contributions are recognized in the Acknowledgements.

Introduction to Plant Disease Control • General principles of Plant Disease Control • Principles of Plant Disease Control with Chemicals • Chemical Control of Plant Disease Through the Years • Identity and Nomenclature of Modern Fungicides • Protective Fungicides for Plant Disease Control • Chemical Control of Plant Diseases by Seed Protection • Antibiotics for Plant Disease Control • Laboratory Bioassay of Chemicals for Plant Disease Control • Compatibility of Fungicides • The Toxicity and Safe Use of Fungicides • Appendix • Index.