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Title: Diseases and Their Management

Author
item Chen, Weidong
item BASANDRAI, ASHWANI
item BASANDRAI, DAISY
item BANNIZA, SABINE
item BAYAA, BASSAM
item BUCHWALDT, LONE
item DAVIDSON, JENNY
item Larsen, Richard
item RUBIALES, DIEGO
item TAYLOR, PAUL

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).