Plant Resistance to Pests and Diseases

As of March, CIAT's Library is exhibiting books, thesis, reports and other documents on "Plant Resistance to Pests and Diseases”. The exhibition includes: natural resistance of plants, plant resistance mechanisms, breeding for plant resistance, plant defenses against pathogens and pests, among others. Some of the publications are listed below:

• Induced plant defenses against pathogens and herbivores : Bochemistry, ecology and agriculture. Agrawal, Anurag A.; Tuzun, Sadik; Bent, Elizabeth (eds.). 1999.



• Whitefly and whitefly-borne viruses in the tropics : Building a knowledge base for global action. Anderson, Pamela K.; Morales, Francisco José (eds.). 2005.



• Breeding for resistance to soil-borne pathogens of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Beebe, S. 1978.



• Interactions of plant resistance and parasitoids and predators of insects. Boethel, David J.; Eikenbary, Raymond D. (eds.). 1986.



• Methods of investigating : Plant resistance to pests. Chesnokov, P.G. 1962.



• Regional Workshop for Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (1994, Njoro, Kenya). Breeding for disease resistance with emphasis on durability : Proceedings. Danial, Daniel L. (ed.). 1994.



• Insect pest management. Dent, David. 1991.



• Natural resistance of plants to pests : Roles of allelochemicals. Green, Maurice Berkeley; Hedin, Paul A. (eds.). 1986.



• Mejoramiento de plantas resistentes a insectos. Maxwell, Fowden G.; Jennings, Peter Randolph (comps.). 1984.



• Exploiting biodiversity for sustainable pest management. Mew, Twan Wah; Borromeo, E.S.; Hardy, Bill (eds.). 2000.



• Host plant resistance to insects. Panda, Niranjan; Khush, Gurdev S. 1995.



• Plant breeding for pest and disease resistance. Russell, G.E. 1981.



• Plant resistance to insects : a fundamental approach. Smith, C. Michael. 1989.



• Techniques for evaluating insect resistance in crop plants. Smith, C. Michael; Khan, Zeyaur R.; Pathak, M.D. 1994.



• The ecology of agricultural pests : Biochemical approaches. Symondson, W.O.C.; Liddell, J. Eryl (eds.). 1996.



• Physiology of disease resistance in plants. Vidhyasekaran, P. 1988.



• Plant disease control : Resistance and susceptibility. Staples, Richard C.; Toenniessen, Gary H. (eds.). 1981.



• Breeding for disease resistance. Johnson, R.; Jellis, G.J. (eds.). 1992.



• Resistance of crop plants against fungi. Hartleb, H.; Heitefuss, Rudolf; Hoppe, H.H. 1997.

A complete list of the exhibition's publications can be found in PDF (39 kb).