The authors:
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lukomets, doctor of agricultural sciences, academician of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Vasily Timofeevich Piven, doctor of agricultural sciences, professor, the honoured scientist of the Russian Federation.
Nikolay Mikhailovich Tishkov, doctor of agricultural sciences.
Sunflower diseases (Under the editorship of V.M. Lukomets, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, doctor of agricultural sciences, VNIIMK)
The book describes the most common fungal, bacterial, viral and nonparasitic diseases of sunflower, their prevalence, harmfulness, symptoms expression, pathogen biology, diseases monitoring, dates and methods of recording and factors limiting them. The book is meant for phytopathologists, plant protection specialists, agronomists, postgraduate students and students of biological and agronomic faculties.
Contains 25 tables and 101 pictures. 2011, 210 pages.
| Table of Contents | Page |
|---|---|
| Introduction | 5 |
| Fungal diseases of sunflower | 7 |
| Downy mildew | 10 |
| White rot | 33 |
| Grey rot | 54 |
| Verticillium wilt | 68 |
| Phoma blight | 72 |
| Dry rot of heads | 78 |
| Rust | 84 |
| Brown leaf blight (Septoria blight) | 88 |
| Alternaria | 91 |
| Charcoal rot | 97 |
| Phomopsis blight | 102 |
| Other fungal diseases | 123 |
| White rust | 124 |
| Powdery mildew | 126 |
| Ascochyta leaf blight (black leaf blight) | 128 |
| Cercospora blight | 128 |
| Brown leaf blight | 129 |
| Wilting of sprouts and young plants | 130 |
| Bacterial wilt | 132 |
| Bacterial rot | 134 |
| Other bacterial diseases | 136 |
| Viral diseases | 138 |
| Orobanche | 141 |
| Diseases of seeds | 146 |
|
Symptoms of deficiency and excess of nutrition elements of sunflower plants |
151 |
| Measures for sunflower diseases control | 161 |
| Monitoring of sunflower diseases | 167 |
| Dates and methods of diseases recording | 170 |
| Bibliography | 202 |
You can study the book at the VNIIMK's library
For purchase, please, address to BASF:
Leshtaeva Ekaterina Anatolievna, Marketing Manager of the Russia region, Department of plant protection
tel.: (+7)(495)225-6446, Fax: (+7)(095)231-7172
Alexander Bykov, Marketing Manager for the region of North Caucasus, Department of plant protection
Tel.: (+7)(861)252-47-86, Fax: (+7)(861)210-01-89, E-mail: alexander.bykov@basf.com