The role of plant pathology in food safety and food security
By: R.N. Strange, Maria Lodovica Gullino, editors
Contributors: Strange, Richard N.; Gullino, M. Lodovica (Maria Lodovica)
Series: Plant pathology in the 21st century -- 3
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781402089312; 9781402089329
Subjects: Plant-pathogen relationships; Safety measures; Food security; Congresses; Plant diseases; Food
Notes: Collection of papers given at the 9th International Congress for Plant Pathology held in Turin in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Plant diseases and the world's dependence on rice / R.S. Zeigler, S. Savary; title: Development of appropriate strategies to control cassava diseases in Ghana / E. Moses; title: Biosecurity in the movement of commodities as a component of global food security / N.A. van der Graaff, W. Khoury; title: ISPP and the challenge of food security / Peter Scott, Richard Strange; title: Globalisation and the threat to biosecurity / Harry C. Evans, James M. Waller; title: Genetic modification (GM) as a new tool in the resistance toolbox / Thomas Hohn, Gabriele Schachermayr; title: The role of plant pathology and biotechnology in food security in Africa / James M. Onsando, Florence Wambugu; title: The secondary metabolite toxin, Sirodesmin PL, and its role in virulence of the blackleg fungus / Barbara J. Howlett ... [et al.]; title: Biological and chemical complexity of Fusarium proliferatum / Robert H. Proctor, Anne E. Desjardins, Antonio Moretti; title: Bioterrorism : a threat to plant biosecurity? / J.P. Stack, F. Suffert, M.L. Gullino; title: The revised international plant protection convention : a new context for plant quarantine / William Roberts; title: Pest risk analysis as applied to plant pathogens / Françoise Petter, Sarah Brunel, Muriel Suffert.