Diseases of Edible Oilseed Crops

Diseases of Edible Oilseed Crops presents an unprecedentedly thorough collection of information on the diseases of cultivated annual oilseed crops, including peanut, rapeseed-mustard, sesame, soybean, sunflower, and safflower. Written by internationally recognized researchers, this book covers and integrates worldwide literature in the field up to 2014, setting it apart from other books that are only of regional importance. The book focuses on major diseases of economic importance to each crop. Each chapter is devoted to a type of crop and a profile of affecting diseases according to geographical occurrence, epidemiology, symptoms, causal pathogens, host-pathogen interactions, biotechnological aspects, and the latest approaches to understanding host-pathogen interactions. It also includes discussions on developments on controversial subjects in research in order to stimulate thinking and further conversation with an eye toward improvements and resolutions. Research on oilseed crop diseases has expanded tremendously in the past 30 years, primarily as an effort to reduce losses to various stresses, including crop diseases. In the war against hunger and malnutrition, it is necessary to enhance and update knowledge about crop diseases and managing them. By compiling decades of information from previously scattered research into a single globally minded volume, Diseases of Edible Oilseed Crops provides these much-needed updates and enhancements

Effect of some epidemiological factors on occurrence and severity of alternaria blight of rapeseed and mustard

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Diseases of Linseed and Fibre Flax

S. J.. Kolte & Bruce D. L. Fitt, Diseases of Linseed and Fibre Flax, Shipra Publications, Cornell University, 1997 ISBN 8185402957, 9788185402956Linseed and flax are the varieties of the same plant (Linum usitatissimum L). When the plants are grown commercially for oilseed purposes, the crop is often referred to as linseed or flax seed or oilseed flax crop. It is only recently some edible grade linseed varieties have been developed. The plants grown commercially for high quality fibres in the stem, the crop is referred to as the fibre flax crop. They are grown all over the world in tropical, sub-tropical and temperate areas covering main countries like Argentina, Canada, Egypt, Ethiopia, former Czechosolovakia and USSR, France, India, Romania, UK and USA

Disease problems in Brassicas and research activities at Pantnagar

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The response of oilseed rape (Brassica napus ssp oliefera ) accessions with different glucosinolate and erucic acid contents to four isolates of Peronospora parasitica (downy mildew) and the identification of new sources of resistance

A total of 101 Brassica napus ssp. oleifera accessions with seed differing in glucosinolate and erucic acid contents were screened for resistance to four isolates of Peronospora parasitica at the cotyledon stage. Two groups of accessions with different resistance factors were identified. Lines that were homogeneous for resistance were selected from seedling populations of accessions that exhibited a heterogeneous reaction to some isolates. The resistance of one group differs from that of cv. Cresor, the only oilseed rape cultivar reported to have an isolate-specific gene for resistance to P. parasitica. The isolate specificity of the second group was identical to that of cv. Cresor. A comparison of the response of host accessions which expressed moderate to full susceptibility at the cotyledon stage, with no clear differential response to any of the four P. parasitica isolates, indicated that those with high glucosinolate and high erucic acid contents (12 accessions) were slightly but significantly less susceptible than those with high glucosinolate and low erucic acid (19 accessions), or low glucosinolate and low erucic acid contents (28 accessions). The mean differences between accessions with low erucic acid but differing in glucosinolate content were inconsistent. The last result was further confirmed by investigating the expression of resistance to three isolates of P. parasitica at three different seedling growth stages among 11 accessions of oilseed rape with seeds low in erucic acid but differing in glucosinolate content