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DISEASES OF LINSEED AND FIBRE FLAX*

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Year: 1997

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About the Book

Linseed and flax are the varieties of the same plant (Linum usitatissimum L). When the plants are grown commercially for oilseed purposes, the crop is often referred to as linseed or flax seed or oilseed flax crop. It is only recently some edible grade linseed varieties have been developed. The plants grown commercially for high quality fibres in the stem, the crop is referred to as the fibre flax crop. They are grown all over the world in tropical, sub-tropical and temperate areas covering main countries like Argentina, Canada, Egypt, Ethiopia, former Czechosolovakia and USSR, France, India, Romania, UK and USA.


About Author

S J Kolte, Professor of Plant Pathology, G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttar Pradesh, India, is Project Leader of the Oilseeds Pathology Project at Pantnagar. He is the author of four other books and has written many book chapters, review papers, published in journals & bulletins. He has written 54 research papers in field of oilseed crop diseases. He received the Ph.D (1971) in Plant Pathology from Pantnagar University. He has visited Canada, USA, UK, Sweden, Ethiopia and China, as part of his research responsibilities on oilseed crop diseases. Bruce D L Fitt, oilseed Pathologist of IACR-Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts, is internationally known for his work on epidemiology and management of diseases of oilseed crops especially linseed. He has visited Canada, USA, several European countries and India.


Contents

Introduction: The Linseed (Flax) Crop. The Linseed Plant: Botanical Characteristics, Economic Importance and uses, Cultivation Practices and Crop Management. Trends in World Production, Production Constraints, Disease Problems, References. Linseed and Fibre Flax Diseases: Fungal Diseases. Seed Rot and Seedling Blight. Rust, Fusarium wilt.


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