Compendium of Grape Diseases, Disorders, and Pests

About this book

Grapes are the most widely planted fruit crop with 7.5 million hectares grown throughout the world. They are also one of the most management intensive crops in existence. Couple this with the fact that a comprehensive diagnostic and pest management guide for grape crops has not been published since 1988, you have a book that is in very high demand.

The much anticipated Compendium of Grape Diseases, Disorders, and Pests, Second Edition meets those demands and more. This unique book fills an important need by wine-, table-, and juice-grape vineyard managers, their staff and consultants, as well as the researchers, extension agents, and diagnosticians who are all working in tandem to ensure these delicate crops make it safely through the growing season.

Almost twice as long as the first edition, the Compendium of Grape Diseases, Disorders, and Pests includes a tremendous amount of new research and the latest management recommendations to combat most diseases, insect pests, and abiotic disorders (weather-related damage, etc.) found in grape vineyards worldwide. And this book is truly applicable worldwide. More than 79 authors from 12 countries and 5 continents were recruited to update or prepare new sections.

The Compendium of Grape Diseases, Disorders, and Pests, Second Edition, is broken into four distinct parts:
- Part one covers diseases caused by biotic factors. It particularly addresses commonly occurring diseases caused by fungi and oomycetes, bacteria, phytoplasmas, viruses and viruslike agents (including nematode-transmitted viruses), and nematode parasites of grapevines.
- Part two discusses mites and insects that cause disease-like symptoms in grapes. Coverage includes leafhoppers and treehoppers, mealybugs, thrips, and much more.
- Part three discusses disorders caused by abiotic factors, with special emphases on chimeras, environmental stresses, nutritional disorders, the various causes of shriveled fruit, and pesticide toxicity.
- Part four offers two new sections that will help users save money and minimize pesticide use. The first, Grapevine Fungicides, discusses fungicides and cultural practices in the context of minimizing disease resistance. The second, Spray Technology for Grapevines, which emphasizes cost saving techniques and practices, helps users minimize pesticide use and ensures the chemical hits its target, not elsewhere in the environment.

In addition, the Compendium of Grape Diseases, Disorders, and Pests, Second Edition, includes an introduction that provides helpful overviews of the grape plant, its worldwide cultivation and varied uses, its history, rootstocks, morphology, and developmental stages.

Appendices include an updated list of common grapevine disease names caused by microbes, nematodes, and viruses; as well as a guide to the many equivalent names given to grapevine diseases and disorders in the English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish languages.

An expanded glossary of more than 800 terms used in Compendium of Grape Diseases, Disorders, and Pests, as well as a comprehensive index to make this resource accessible to anyone working in the grape industry, including diagnosticians, extension specialists; consultants; scientists; vineyard managers and staff; juice, fresh fruit, and raisin producers; and students.

Contents

Introduction
   The Grape, Its Diseases, and Its Pathogens
   The Genus Vitis, Its Species, and Its Rootstocks
   Grapevine Structure and Growth Stages
   Historical Significance of Grapevine Diseases

Part I. Diseases Caused by Biotic Factors
Diseases Caused by Fungi and Oomycetes
   Anthracnose
   Armillaria Root Rot
   Miscellaneous Berry Rots and Raisin Molds
   Bitter Rot
   Black Foot Disease
   Black Rot
   Botryosphaeria dieback
   Botrytis Bunch Rot and Blight
   Dematophora Root Rot
   Downy Mildew
   Esca, Petri, and Grapevine Leaf Stripe Diseases
   Eutypa Dieback
   Grapevine Leaf Rust
   Macrophoma Rot
Minor Foliage Diseases
   Leaf Blight
   Leaf Blotch
   Zonate Leaf Spot
   Septoria Leaf Spot
   Other Minor Foliage Diseases
   Phomopsis Cane and Leaf Spot
   Phymatotrichopsis Root Rot
   Phytophthora Crown and Root Rot
   Powdery Mildew
   Ripe Rot
   Rotbrenner and Angular Leaf Scorch
   Sour Rot
   Verticillium Wilt
   White Rot
Diseases Caused By Bacteria
   Bacterial Blight
   Crown Gall
   Pierce’s Disease
Diseases Caused by Phytoplasmas
   Grapevine Yellows Diseases
   Australian Grapevine Yellows
   Bois noir or Vergilbungskrankheit
   Flavescence dorée
   North American Grapevine Yellows
   Palatinate Grapevine Yellows
Diseases Caused by Viruses and Viruslike Agents
   Grapevine Virus Diseases
   Enation Disease
   The Fleck Complex
   Grapevine Berry Inner Necrosis
   Grapevine Leafroll Disease
   Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 2 and Graft Incompatibility
   Grapevine Red Blotch
Nematode-transmitted Virus Diseases
   European Nepoviruses and Strawberry latent ringspot virus
   North American Grapevine Nepoviruses
   The Rugose Wood Complex
   Vein Mosaic
   Vein Necrosis
   Minor Virus Diseases
   Other Viruses and Virus-like Agents
   Grapevine Viroids
Nematode Parasites of Grapevines
   Citrus Nematode
   Dagger and Needle Nematodes
   Ring Nematode
   Root-knot Nematodes
   Root-lesion Nematodes
   Miscellaneous Ectoparasitic Nematodes
   Nematode Management

Part II. Mites and Insects that Cause Diseaselike Symptoms in Grapes
Leafhoppers and Treehoppers
Mealybugs
Mites
Grape Phylloxera
Thrips

Part III. Disorders Caused by Abiotic Factors
Chimeras
Environmental Stress
Nutritional Disorders
Shriveled Fruit
Pesticide Toxicity

Part IV. Grapevine Disease Management
Grapevine Fungicides
Spray Technology for Grapevines
Certification and International Regulation of Planting Materials

Appendices
Appendix I: Diseases and Disorders of Grapevines
Appendix II: Equivalent Names (English and Other Languages) of Grapevine Diseases and Disorders

Glossary
Index

Customer Reviews