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| Other authors / contributors: | Bailey, Bryan A. (Bryan Alan), 1958- editor.
Meinhardt, Lyndel W., editor.
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| ISBN: | 9783319247892
3319247891
3319247875
9783319247878
9783319247885
3319247883
9783319796796
3319796798
9783319247878
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
PDF
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| Notes: | Includes index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 29, 2016).
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| Summary: | This book reviews the current state of knowledge concerning cacao pathogens and methods for their management. Topics discussed include the history, biology and genetic diversity of Moniliophthora (which causes witches' broom and frosty pod rot) and Phytophthora species (which causes black pod rot) that cause diseases resulting in major losses to cacao production. Emerging pathogens such as Cacao swollen shoot virus and Ceratobasidium theobromae (which causes vascular streak dieback) are also discussed in detail, along with many pathogens of significant local concern. Most of these pathogens represent major risks to global cacao production should they expand into new areas, breaking out of their current limited distributions. By considering cacao diseases as a group, similarities in the available tools and techniques used in their management become apparent, as do their limitations. Gaps in our current knowledge of cacao pathogens and the management of the diseases they cause are detailed, and suggestions for future research directions are provided. This insight allows readers to consider cacao disease threats from a more comprehensive, global perspective and paves the way for an improved synergy of efforts between the various research programs, agencies, and industries, both private and public, with vested interests in cacao production, and cacao farmers.
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| Other form: | Printed edition: 9783319247878
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-24789-2
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