Citation:

9 General approaches to disease control. Chapter 9. Pages 118-128. 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: avoidance of the pathogen, choice of geographic area, choice of planting site in a local area, choice of planting date, use of disease-free planting stock, modification of cultural practices, exclusion of the pathogen, treatment of propagules of plants, inspection and certification, exclusion or restriction by plant quarantine, elimination of insect vectors, eradication of the pathogen, biological control of plant pathogen, crop rotation, removal and destruction of susceptible plants or diseased parts of plants, roguing diseased plants, elimination of alternate hosts and weed hosts, sanitation, heat and chemical treatments applied to diseased plants, soil treatments, protection of the plant, spraying or dusting and treatment of propagules to protect against infection, controlling the insect vectors of pathogens, modification of the environment, inoculation with a benign virus to protect against a more virulent form, modification of nutrition, development of resistant hosts, selection and breeding for resistance,

resistance by chemotherapy, resistance through nutrition, therapy applied to the diseased plant, chemotherapy, heat treatment, surgery