Citation:

10 Cultural and biological control of disease. Chapter 10. Pages 129-143. In: Charles E Palm (editor). 1968. Plant-Disease Development and Control. Principles of Plant and Animal Pest Control. Volume 1. Publication No. 1596. Agricultural Board, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, 205 pages. ISBN 6860085

Keywords: producing and using pathogen—free propagating material, disadvantages of overhead irrigation in raising clean seed, arid sites for producing pathogen-free seed, use of isolation culture in maintaining uninfected planting stock, disinfection and disinfestation by heat therapy, aging of seed, avoiding seed infestation by early harvest, adjusting crop culture to minimize disease, disadvantages of monoculture, adjusting time of planting, reducing exudate accumulation, making use of differential temperature optima for plant and pathogen, plant spacing, disease increase through intercropping, spread of pathogens during crop cultivation, effects of excessive irrigation, effects of soil nutrients and pH on disease incidence, crop injury at or before harvest and disease, crop rotation as a control measure, sanitation, destruction of crop residues, roguing infected plants, the protective value of crop—free periods, barriers of nonhost or killed host plants, controlling vectors can control some diseases