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Plant nematodes of agricultural importance: a colour handbook
Plant nematodes of agricultural importance: a colour handbook
Gowen, Simon
2007-01-01 00:00:00
Nematology , 2007, Vol. 9(6), 911 Book review B RIDGE , J OHN and S TAR R , J AMES L. Plant nematodes of agricultural importance: a colour handbook . Manson Publishing, London, UK, 2007, 152 pp. ISBN 13 978 1 84076 063 7. Price: £40.00. The authors have prepared this book as an aid to those who work with plants to understand the biology of para- sitic nematodes and to diagnose the symptoms that they cause. The introductory chapter gives some background to the ecology and biology of the plant-parasitic nematodes. The well established system of classification based on the mi- gratory ectoparasitic, migratory endoparasitic and seden- tary endoparasitic modes of parasitism is described. The most common and economically important representa- tives of each group are mentioned together with some clear diagrams of their life cycles. The succeeding chapters show the nematode symptoms on various plants: grain legumes, vegetables, flowers, ce- reals, root and tuber crops and tree, plantation and cash crops. In these chapters the authors have excelled in pre- senting some first class photographs of nematode damage symptoms. These images should enable crop protection- ists and agronomists to identify problems on plant speci- mens in the field or brought to an office. The likely iden- tity of key nematode pests encountered can be deduced from the symptoms with a reasonable judgement as to their presence or absence without necessarily extracting the causal organisms and observing them under high mag- nification. The final chapter gives some useful advice on the collection and processing of samples. The difficulty the authors will have had with this hand- book is to decide who the target readership might be. Gen- eral crop specialists may not have the time or equipment to take advantage of the photographs of microscopic nema- todes. These images are also of great clarity but are mean- ingful only to those who have the opportunity to make use of a high power microscope and are already aware of the size of these animals. The omission of a scale on these photographs is unfortunate. Similarly, the interest in this book is for a worldwide readership and many of the more striking symptoms are to be found on subtrop- ical and tropical crops. Nevertheless, this handbook will be a welcome addition to the libraries of those who teach and practise crop production and pest management. For applied crop scientists and, in particular, prospective ne- matologists wanting justification for this calling, this book will be of great interest and a useful reference. S I M O N R. G OW E N School of Agriculture, Policy and Development University of Reading Reading Berkshire RG6 6AH , UK e-mail: s.r.gowen@reading.ac.uk © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 911 Also available online - www.brill.nl/nemy
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands ISSN
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1568-5411 DOI
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Nematology , 2007, Vol. 9(6), 911 Book review B RIDGE , J OHN and S TAR R , J AMES L. Plant nematodes of agricultural importance: a colour handbook . Manson Publishing, London, UK, 2007, 152 pp. ISBN 13 978 1 84076 063 7. Price: £40.00. The authors have prepared this book as an aid to those who work with plants to understand the biology of para- sitic nematodes and to diagnose the symptoms that they cause. The introductory chapter gives some background to the ecology and biology of the plant-parasitic nematodes. The well established system of classification based on the mi- gratory ectoparasitic, migratory endoparasitic and seden- tary endoparasitic modes of parasitism is described. The most common and economically important representa- tives of each group are mentioned together with some clear diagrams of their life cycles. The succeeding chapters show the nematode symptoms on various plants: grain legumes, vegetables, flowers, ce- reals, root and tuber crops and tree, plantation and cash crops. In these chapters the authors have excelled in pre- senting some first class photographs of nematode damage symptoms. These images should enable crop protection- ists and agronomists to identify problems on plant speci- mens in the field or brought to an office. The likely iden- tity of key nematode pests encountered can be deduced from the symptoms with a reasonable judgement as to their presence or absence without necessarily extracting the causal organisms and observing them under high mag- nification. The final chapter gives some useful advice on the collection and processing of samples. The difficulty the authors will have had with this hand- book is to decide who the target readership might be. Gen- eral crop specialists may not have the time or equipment to take advantage of the photographs of microscopic nema- todes. These images are also of great clarity but are mean- ingful only to those who have the opportunity to make use of a high power microscope and are already aware of the size of these animals. The omission of a scale on these photographs is unfortunate. Similarly, the interest in this book is for a worldwide readership and many of the more striking symptoms are to be found on subtrop- ical and tropical crops. Nevertheless, this handbook will be a welcome addition to the libraries of those who teach and practise crop production and pest management. For applied crop scientists and, in particular, prospective ne- matologists wanting justification for this calling, this book will be of great interest and a useful reference. S I M O N R. G OW E N School of Agriculture, Policy and Development University of Reading Reading Berkshire RG6 6AH , UK e-mail: s.r.gowen@reading.ac.uk © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 911 Also available online - www.brill.nl/nemy
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Gowen, S. (2007). Plant nematodes of agricultural importance: a colour handbook. Nematology, 9(6), 911-911.
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Gowen, Simon. "Plant nematodes of agricultural importance: a colour handbook." Nematology 9.6 (2007): 911-911.
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