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George L McNew. 1966. Progress in the battle against plant disease. Pages 73-101. In: CE Palm (editor). 1966. Scientific Aspects of Pest Control. National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council. A symposium held February 1-3, 1966. Washington DC, Publication 1402, 470 pages.
Keywords: plant disease escaping tactics, field location selection, low humidity, plant quarantine, alternate hosts, common barberry for black stem rust of wheat, currents and gooseberries for white pine rust, buckthorn for crown rust, buckthorn for crown rust of oats, red cedar for cedar-apple rust, insect vector of plant diseases, swollen shoot virus of cacao by mealybugs, soil type, Panama disease of banana, suppression of inoculum potential, crop rotation, Crotalaria spectabilis suppressant of root-knot nematode, sanitation and the prediction of disease potential, modified environment—use of chemicals, fungicides, increased host resistance and tolerance