Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Disease
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| Publisher: | Springer Netherlands |
| Subject: | Tomatoes--Diseases and pests, Tomatoes--Breeding, Tomatoes--Disease and pest resistance |
| Authors: | Henryk Czosnek |
| Pages: | 448 pages |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| ISBN: | 9781402047688 |
| Call No: | SB 608. T75 T655 2007 |
Ideally suited to horticulturalists and plant virologists, this highly useful text offers a multidisciplinary view on one of the major diseases of tomato crops, the tomato yellow leaf curl disease. It deals with epidemiological aspects of the disease as well as integrated pest management in the field. Coverage discusses the efforts aimed at breeding tomato plants resistant to the virus by classical breeding, by marker-assisted breeding and by genetic engineering.