This comprehensive manual of phytobacteriology is heavily illustrated with over 200 colour photographs and line illustrations. It begins by outlining the history and science of bacteriology and gives an overview of the diversity and versatility of complex bacteria. It then explains the characterization, identification and naming of complex bacteria, and explores how bacteria can cause disease and how plants react to such disease. The book also discusses the economic importance of bacterial diseases as well as strategies for their control and the reduction of crop losses. It concludes with fifty examples of plant pathogenic bacteria and the diseases that they cause.

About the Author
(1953) studied Plant Pathology (specialisations in bacteriology, virology and general microbiology) at Wageningen University, The Netherlands and holds a PhD in plant bacteriology (the use of fatty acids in the taxonomy of plant pathogenic Pseudomonas species). From 1986-2007 head of the Dept Bacteriology of the Dutch Plant Protection Service, specializing in (molecular) diagnostics and taxonomy of plant pathogenic bacteria and the biology of plant pathogenic bacteria, especially bacterial brown rot (Ralstonia solanacearum). Chair of the newly founded European Association of Phytobacteriologists. Advisor to the European Plant Protection Organisation, senior editor of the Journal of Plant Pathology, referee for various plant pathology journals and teaching phytobacteriology and microscopy all over the world and at a regular basis at CIHEAM Bari, Italy. Since 2007 senior advising bacteriologist at the Dutch National Inspection Service, Emmeloord


Book Information
ISBN 9781845930257
Author Jacob Janse
Format Hardback
Page Count 368
Imprint CABI Publishing
Publisher CABI Publishing