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Title: Diseases and Their Management

Author
item Chen, Weidong
item BASANDRAI, ASHWANI - INDIA
item BASANDRAI, DAISY - INDIA
item BANNIZA, SABINE - CANADA
item BAYAA, BASSAM - SYRIA
item BUCHWALDT, LONE - CANADA
item DAVIDSON, JENNY - AUSTRALIA
item Larsen, Richard
item RUBIALES, DIEGO - SPAIN
item TAYLOR, PAUL - AUSTRALIA

Submitted to: Lentil
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/20/2009
Publication Date: 6/20/2009
Citation: Chen, W., Basandrai, A., Basandrai, D., Banniza, S., Bayaa, B., Buchwaldt, L., Davidson, J., Larsen, R.C., Rubiales, D., Taylor, P. 2009. Diseases and Their Management, pages 262-281 in: The Lentil: Botany, Production and Uses, Erskine, W., Muehlbauer, F.J., Sarker, A. and Sharma, B. (eds.). CAB International, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

Interpretive Summary: Review of important lentil diseases around the world, and management practice of the lentil diseases, for a book on lentil.

Technical Abstract: Important diseases and their management practices of lentil were reviewed. The diseases reveiwed include Ascochyta blight (Ascochyta lentis), Anthracnose (Colletotrichum truncatum), White mold (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum), rust (Uromyces viciae-fabae), Botrytis gray mold (Botrytis cinerea and B. fabae), Stemphylium blight (Stemphylium botryosum), Fusarium wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lentis), and nematode diseases including root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne incognita, M. javanica), cyst nematode (Heterodera ciceri), and root-lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus thornei, P. penetrans, and P. mediterraneus), and stem nematode (Ditylenchus dipsaci).