Climate Change,Environment and Plant Diseases Development

Main Author: Damiri, Nurhayati
Format: BookSection PeerReviewed application/pdf
Terbitan: Sriwijaya University cooperation with CRISU and CUPT , 2011
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Online Access: http://eprints.unsri.ac.id/1051/3/cover_proc_internasional.pdf
http://eprints.unsri.ac.id/1051/4/CLIMATE_CHANGES_AND_DISEASE_DEVELOPMENT_fdf.pdf
http://eprints.unsri.ac.id/1051/
Daftar Isi:
  • Climate changes such as global temperature increase has become the topic of international conferences as well as regional scientific meetings including for Indonesian perspective. Climate changes affect environmental conditions in agricultural system, hence affect plant pests and diseases development. Weather components namely air temperature, humidity, soil temperature, rainy spell, wind, irrigation etc do affect the disease development in the plantations. The effect of weather components on its own or in togetherness can be negative in the form of pests and diseases outbreaking at a time of the year. Such effect can be the result of short term, middle term or even long term postponement. Globally, negative impact of climate changes namely weakening the ecosystem components that regulate the balance of plant pests and diseases, weakening the plant resistance and the formation of environmental condition that support the plant pests and diseases development in general.