Compendium of Lettuce Diseases and Pests (2^nd Ed.)

In recent years, consumer demands for more nutritious salad products have brought major changes in the types of lettuce produced and in the methods of their cultivation. These changes have also brought new challenges to disease and pest management in lettuce production. The new Compendium of Lettuce Diseases and Pests, Second Edition, addresses these changes and challenges by providing the most up-to-date and comprehensive resource available on lettuce diseases and pests, as well as their management. It offers solutions to help users identify and manage infectious diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, nematodes, viruses, as well as noninfectious disorders such as air pollution, allelopathy, bolting, mineral deficiencies, toxicities, pesticide related injury, rib blight, tipburn, and many others.

This concise yet comprehensive book is ideal for large and small commercial growing operations, as well as the advisors that serve them, including plant pathologists, entomologists, breeders, seed company personnel, crop production specialists, growers, diagnosticians, students, regulatory personnel, crop consultants, educators, researchers, extension personnel, and others involved in the diagnosis and management of lettuce diseases, pests, and disorders.

The highly anticipated second edition, published two decades after the first, offers the most practical, up-to-date, and comprehensive information in existence for diagnosing and managing diseases, pests and disorders of various lettuce crops.

The Compendium of Lettuce Diseases and Pests, Second Edition specifically offers :
- Nearly 210 images of symptoms caused by diseases, insects, and abiotic agents, enabling growers to visually identify diseases and other pests that affect their crops.
- Data on the distribution of pathogens and pests of lettuce within the United States and the world, giving users reliable information on geographic trends.
- Concise descriptions of laboratory techniques to recover pathogens and identify insects, allowing researchers to achieve a higher degree of accuracy in diagnoses.
- Succinct descriptions of management options for growers, researchers, and extension agents.
- Information on the causal organisms, disease cycle and epidemiology of each pathogen.
- Selected references that lead readers to important and relevant literature on each pathogen and pest of lettuce, as well as related crops.
- Science-based information from top researchers across the world, enabling users to more confidently scout, identify, and manage problems in the field before they become economically significant.

The Compendium of Lettuce Diseases and Pests, Second Edition is divided into four parts titled Infectious Diseases; Arthropod (insect) Pests; Injuries and Abiotic and Noninfectious Diseases and Disorders; and Postharvest Diseases and Disorders.

The book also offers useful information on the history of lettuce, evolution of different types of lettuce cultivation, conventional and biotechnological and genomic approaches to lettuce improvement, the food safety issues that have emerged as a major concern for the industry in recent years, and other relevant topics.

Introduction

Lettuce Production
. Cultivars
. Botany, Taxonomy, and Origin
. Evolution of the U.S. Lettuce Industry
. Production Factors
Lettuce Breeding
. Objectives of Lettuce Breeding
. Methods of Lettuce Breeding
Applications of Biotechnology and Genomics to Disease Resistance in Lettuce
. Tissue Culture
. Molecular Markers and Genome Sequencing
. Status of Molecular Markers for Resistance to Specific Diseases
. Transgenic Approaches
. Genome Editing
. Opportunities from Model and Other Species
. Metagenomics
. Conclusions
Lettuce Seed Germination Under Environmental Stress
. Maternal Environment During Seed Maturation
. Sensitivity to Temperature and Salinity Stress
. Seed Technology Enhances Germination—but at a Price
Lettuce Diseases and Disorders
. Infectious Agents
. Abiotic Diseases and Disorders
. Management of Lettuce Diseases and Disorders
Lettuce-Associated Microbiota
. Population Size, Structure, and Function of Lettuce Microbiota
. Plant Species, Cultivar, Age, and Growth
. Location, Climate, and Season
. Impact of Pathogens and Management Practices
. Conclusions and Outlook
Food Safety
. Plant-Associated Foodborne Pathogens
. Routes and Sources of Contamination
. Environmental Survival
. Factors Contributing to Pathogen Survival and Growth on Leaf Surfaces
. Improving Food Safety

Part I. Infectious Diseases

Diseases Caused by Fungi and Oomycetes
. Anthracnose
. Black Root Rot
. Black Rot
. Bottom Rot
. Cercospora Leaf Spot
. Damping-Off
. Downy Mildew
. Drop
. Fusarium Wilt
. Gray Mold
. Phoma Leaf Spot and Basal Rot
. Phytophthora Stem and Root Rot
. Powdery Mildew
. Pythium Wilt, Leaf Blight, and Root Rot
. Septoria Leaf Spot
. Southern Blight
. Stemphylium Leaf Spot
. Texas Root Rot
. Verticillium Wilt
Diseases Caused by Bacteria
. Bacterial Leaf Spot
. Bacterial Soft Rot
. Corky Root
. Marginal Leaf Blight
. Varnish Spot
Diseases Caused by Phytoplasmas
. Lettuce Yellows (Aster Yellows), Lettuce Phyllody, and Australian Lettuce Phyllody
Diseases Caused by Viruses
. Alfalfa Mosaic
. Beet Western Yellows
. Beet Yellow Stunt
. Bidens Mottle
. road Bean Wilt
. Cucumber Mosaic
. Dandelion Yellow Mosaic
. Impatiens Necrotic Spot
. Lettuce Big Vein
. Lettuce Chlorosis
. Lettuce Dieback
. Lettuce Mosaic
. Lettuce Mottle
. Lettuce Necrotic Yellows
. Sonchus Yellow Net
. Sowthistle Yellow Vein
. Tobacco Rattle
. Tobacco Ringspot
. Tobacco Streak
. Tomato Spotted Wilt
. Turnip Mosaic
Minor Viruses of Lettuce
. Endive necrotic mosaic virus
. Lettuce necrotic leaf curl virus
. Lettuce yellow mottle virus
. Lettuce virus X
. Sonchus virus
Diseases Caused by Nematodes
. Lesion Nematode
. Needle Nematode
. Root-Knot Nematodes
. Spiral Nematode
. Stunt Nematode
Parasitic Plant
. Broomrape

Part II. Arthropod Pests

Class: Insecta
. Order: Hemiptera
Family: Aphididae
. Aphids
Family: Aleyrodidae
. Whiteflies
Family: Cicadellidae
. Leafhoppers
Family: Membracidae
. Treehoppers
Family: Lygaeidae
. Seed Bugs
Family: Miridae
. Plant Bugs
. Order: Diptera
Family: Agromyzidae
.Leafminers
Family: Anthomyiidae
.Seedcorn Maggot
.Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae, Subfamily: Alticinae
. Flea Beetles
Family: Chrysomelidae, Subfamily: Chrysomelinae
. Leaf Beetles
Family: Elateridae
. Wireworms
Family: Tenebrionidae
. Darkling Beetles
. Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
. Caterpillars
. Armyworm
. Beet Armyworm
. Loopers
. Cutworms
. Corn Earworm and Tobacco Budworm
Family: Arctiidae
. Saltmarsh Caterpillar
. Order: Thysanoptera
Family: Thripidae
. Thrips
. Order: Orthoptera
Family: Gryllidae
. Field Crickets
. Order: Dermaptera
Family: Forficulidae
. Earwigs
. Order: Collembola
. Springtails
Class: Symphyla
. Order: Symphyla
Family: Scutigerellidae
. Garden Symphylan
Class: Arachnida
. Order: Acari
Family: Acaridae
. Bulb Mites
. Spider Mites
Class: Malacostraca
. Order: Isopoda
. Sowbugs and Pillbugs

Part III. Injuries and Abiotic and Noninfectious Diseases and Disorders

Mineral Deficiencies and Toxicities
. Macronutrients and Micronutrients
Noninfectious Physiological Disorders
. Tipburn
. Bolting
. Rib Discoloration
. Weather-Related Injury
. Ammonium Toxicity
. Soil pH and Salinity
. Bird Damage
. Herbicide Injury

Part IV. Postharvest Diseases and Disorders

. Bacterial Soft Rot
. Russet Spotting
. Gray Mold
. Brown Stain
. Pink Rib
. Other Postharvest Diseases and Disorders

Appendix
Glossary
Index