Sustainable Pest Management in Date Palm: Current Status and Emerging Challenges
Date palm, Phoenix dactylifera L. (Arecales: Arecaceae), is an important palm species cultivated since pre-historic times in the arid regions of the world and traditionally associated with the life and culture of the people in the Middle-East and North Af
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Waqas Wakil Jose Romeno Faleiro Thomas A. Miller Editors
Sustainable Pest Management in Date Palm: Current Status and Emerging Challenges
Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection Series editor Aurelio Ciancio, Sezione di Bari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto per la Protezione delle Piante, Bari, Italy
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Waqas Wakil • Jose Romeno Faleiro Thomas A. Miller Editors
Sustainable Pest Management in Date Palm: Current Status and Emerging Challenges
Editors Waqas Wakil Department of Entomology University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
Jose Romeno Faleiro Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations IPM (Red Palm Weevil) Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
Thomas A. Miller Department of Entomology University of California Riverside, CA, USA
Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection ISBN 978-3-319-24395-5 ISBN 978-3-319-24397-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24397-9
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This book is dedicated to John B. Carpenter in recognition of his pioneering work and worldwide reputation as an authority on date palm culture, particularly with regard to pathology and integrated pest management. He was born in 1915 and graduated from the
University of Idaho. He received his PhD in plant pathology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1941. His initial research was on fire blight of apples and Phytophthora diseases of potatoes. After working as Senior Plant Pathologist for the USDA Rubber Diseas
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