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Holliday, P., 1990

A Dictionary of Plant Pathology

A dictionary of pests and diseases afflicting the World's plants, especially crops and trees. Entries for the pathogens include a short description, often with many abbreviations which are obscure at first, host(s), distribution, vector.

Publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Pages 369
ISBN 0-521-42475-5
Edition Reprint with corrections
Comments and Corrigenda Since the dictionary covers such a broad taxonomic range it would have been helpful to use the entomological convention of citing Order and Family against Latin binomials.

Malcolm Storey

Taxonomic Scope

ANIMALIA (animals) Background Reading Current Species causing plant diseases.
OOMYCOTA Arx, 1967 (a group of mainly plant-parasitic fungi) Background Reading Current Species causing plant diseases.
MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) Background Reading Current Species causing plant diseases.
SPERMATOPHYTA (vascular plants) Background Reading Current Pest and Diseases of the world.
MONERA (prokaryotes) Background Reading Current Species causing plant diseases.
Mycoplasma Background Reading Current Species causing plant diseases.
VIRUSES (viruses) Background Reading Current Species causing plant diseases.

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