Post Harvest Management of Plant Diseases

This book gives insight view about post harvest management in plant pathology which has changed its emphasis in recent years. Food safety has emerged as a key element in decay control programs.Continued failures to effectively control certain post harvest diseases and the need for more environmental friendly crop control materials is driving a new approach to disease control.Integrated postharvest decay control is the concept that offers the most promise for the future.Society can no longer rely on one or two control strategies but must enlist the entire spectrum of strategies to reduce post harvest losses.