Ascochyta blights of grain legumes [Paperback]

Ascochyta blights consistently affect large areas of grain legume production (pea, lentil, chickpea and faba bean) in all countries where they are cultivated. These diseases are capable of causing large yield losses. This book considers the state-of-the-art by taking a comparative approach of Ascochyta blight diseases of cool season food and feed legumes. Topics considered are pathogen diversity, legume genetics and breeding, and integrated disease management.

Ascochyta blights consistently affect large areas of grain legume production (pea, lentil, chickpea and faba bean) in all countries where they are cultivated. These diseases are capable of causing large yield losses under conducive environmental conditions. This book considers the state of the art by taking a comparative approach of Ascochyta blight diseases of cool season food and feed legumes. Topics considered are pathogen diversity, legume genetics and breeding, and integrated disease management.

Reprinted from European Journal of Plant Pathology, Volume 119, No. 1, 2007

Foreword: B. Tivoli et al.1. Towards identifying pathogenic determinants of the chickpea pathogen Ascochyta rabiei: D. White, W. Chen.2. Biotic factors affecting the expression of partial resistance in pea to ascochyta blight in a detached stipule assay: C. Onfroy et al.3. Validation of a QTL for resistance to ascochyta blight linked to resistance to fusarium wilt race 5 in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.): M. Iruela et al.4. Genetic relationships among chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes based on the SSRs at the quantitative trait loci for resistance to ascochyta blight: B. Taran et al.5. Inheritance of resistance to Mycosphaerella pinodes in two wild accessions of Pisum: S. Fondevilla et al.6. Comparison of the epidemiology of ascochyta blights on grain legumes: B. Tivoli, S. Banniza.7. Development of ascochyta blight (Ascochyta rabiei) in chil#4