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- More than 1500 plant entries and their diseases, including trees and shrubs, native flowers and weeds, garden flowers, fruit and vegetables and grasses and forage
- More than 150 new diseases reported each year
- Reliable diagnoses described including illustration plates of 34 key diseases and 40 black and white illustrations
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Table of contents (54 entries)
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Front Matter
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Garden Chemicals and Their Application
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Classification of Plant Pathogens
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Plant Diseases and Their Pathogens
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About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Dept. of Plant Pathology, and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
R. Kenneth Horst
About the author
Dr. Horst received his BS degree from Ohio University in Plant Science in 1957; his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State University in Plant Pathology in 1959 and 1962 respectively. He was Director of the Plant Pathology Laboratory at Yoder Bros. in Barberton, Ohio, 1962-1968. In 1968 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology at Cornell University. He subsequently became Associate Professor in 1974 and Full Professor in 1980. In addition to research, teaching and extension responsibilities, he also served as advisor for masters and doctoral students. He has authored or co-authored more than 230 articles which include books, book chapters and invitational papers, and has guest lectured nationally and internationally. Horst wrote the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th editions of Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook, the 1st edition of the Compendium of Rose Diseases, the Compendium of Chrysanthemum Diseases and the 2nd edition of the Compendium of Rose Diseases and Pests. He is presently President and CEO of H&I Agritech, Inc., which develops biocompatible (environmentally safe) pesticides for disease and pest control.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook
Authors: R. Kenneth Horst
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2141-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2140-1Published: 30 July 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2141-8Published: 19 July 2013
Edition Number: 8
Number of Pages: XXII, 826
Number of Illustrations: 74 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Pathology, Agriculture, Life Sciences, general, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Virology, Biological Microscopy