Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Disease Management, Molecular Biology, Breeding for Resistance
Description
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.
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ScienceLife SciencesBotany
2007Book
Author(s)Henryk Czosnek
PublisherSpringer Netherlands
ISBN9781402047688
LanguageEnglish
