Plant Diseases: Fruits and Nuts

The book entitled “Plant Diseaes: Fruits and Nuts” includes 35 chapters contributed by eminent researchers in their respective fields. Efforts have been to incorporate information on diseases of apples, pears, peach, stone fruits, citrus, grapevines, grapes, strawberry, blueberries, cranberries, pecans, walnuts, apricot and almond.

Contents: Preface. 1. Scab of apples/G.W. Keitt. 2. Blotch of apples/John C. Dunegan. 3. Bitter rot of apples/John C. Dunegan. 4. Rust diseases of apple/D.H. Palmiter. 5. Sooty blotch and fly speck/A.B. Groves. 6. Powdery mildew on apples/Roderick Sprague. 7. Stony pit of pears/J.R. Kienholz. 8. Scab on the pear/J.R. Kienholz. 9. Fire blight of pears in California/C. Emlen Scott. 10. Phony peach and peach mosaic/A.E. Cavanagh and C.H. Rothe. 11. Brown rot of peach/John C. Dunegan. 12. Scab or black spot on peach/John C. Dunegan. 13. Bacterial spot of peach/John C. Dunegan. 14. Anthracnose of peach/Donald H. Petersen. 15. Cheryy leaf spot/F.H. Lewis. 16. Two root rots of fruit trees/H. Earl Thomas, Stephen Whilhelm and Neil Allan Maclean. 17. Coryneum blight of stone fruits/E.E. Wilson. 18. Root rots in the east/C.N. Clayton. 19. Virus diseases of stone fruits/L.C. Cochran and E.L. Reeves. 20. Bacterial canker of stone fruits/E.E. Wilson. 21. The tristeza disease of citrus/T.J. Grant, L.J. Klotz and J.M. Wallace. 22. Root rot in citrus trees/L.J. Klotz and J.F.L. Childs. 23. Virus diseases of citrus fruits/J.M. Wallace and T.J. Grant. 24. Virus diseases of grapevine/W.B. Hewitt. 25. Ills of the American bunch grapes/Alvin J. Braun. 26. Red Stele disease of strawberry/W.F. Jeffers and D.H. Scott. 27. Virus diseases of the strawberry/Harold E. Thomas and C.P. Marcus….