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The Role of Plant Pathology in Food Safety and Food Security
Title
The Role of Plant Pathology in Food Safety and Food Security [electronic resource] / edited by R.N. Strange, Maria Lodovica Gullino.
ISBN
9781402089329
Publication
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (VIII, 155 p).
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Summary
This book views the vulnerability of our crops in general to devastating diseases as well as specifically the disease problems of two important staples, rice and cassava. Increased travel and increased transport of plant material throughout the world pose ever more significant risks to the health of our plants. These include not only the destruction of our food crops by pathogens which may be imported accidentally or maliciously but also their contamination by fungi that produce powerful toxins (mycotoxins). How we should respond to these challenges is the subject of several papers. Clearly, quarantine is an important measure by which the spread of plant pathogens may be at least delayed, if not curtailed altogether, but breeding plants for resistance is the mainstay for maintaining the comparative health and productivity of our crops. However, adequate resistance may not be available in the gene pool of a given species or genus and therefore the possibility of genetic modification arises, a topic treated in two of the papers.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 17, 2018
Series
Plant Pathology in the 21st Century ; 3
Contents
The Role of Plant Pathology in Food Safety and Food Security
Plant Diseases and the World’s Dependence on Rice
Development of Appropriate Strategies to Control Cassava Diseases in Ghana
Biosecurity in the Movement of Commodities as a Component of Global Food Security
Global Food Security
ISPP and the Challenge of Food Security
Globalisation and the Threat to Biosecurity
Genetic Modification (GM) as a New Tool in the Resistance Toolbox
The Role of Plant Pathology and Biotechnology in Food Security in Africa
Mycotoxins
The Secondary Metabolite Toxin, Sirodesmin PL, and Its Role in Virulence of the Blackleg Fungus
Biological and Chemical Complexity of Fusarium proliferatum
Biosecurity and Quarantine
Bioterrorism: A Threat to Plant Biosecurity?
The Revised International Plant Protection Convention – a New Context for Plant Quarantine
Pest Risk Analysis as Applied to Plant Pathogens.
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