Author | : Henryk Czosnek |
File Size | : 50,8 Mb |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 23 September 2007 |
ISBN | : 9781402047695 |
Pages | : 437 pages |
Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Disease by Henryk Czosnek Book PDF Summary
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.