Chapter 4. Daniel Altman Roberts. 1981. Using regulatory programs, biological methods, cultural practices, and resistant varieties to control diseases of plants. Pages 69-78. In: David Pimentel (editor). CRC Handbook of Pest Management in Agriculture. Volume 2, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 501 pages.

Keywords: plant disease control, the principles of plant disease control, the practices of plant disease control, controlling plant diseases without using chemicals, using regulatory programs to control plant diseases, quarantines for plant disease control, certification of propagative material, using pathogen-free propagative parts of plants for disease control, using biological methods to control plant diseases, corn seedling blights with Bacillus subtilis, Chaetomium globosum, oat seedling blight and C. globosum and C. cochliodes for Victoria blight, using farm management and cultural practices to control plant diseases, using disease resistant varieties of crop plants, plant disease control and integrated pest management, examples of cultural control practices on banana for moko by crop rotation, on beans for bacterial blight, white mold, and anthracnose by crop rotation, by lime amendment for club root and black rot by thermotherapy of seed, on cacao for pod rot and virus diseases by sanitation, on celery for early blight by wide spacing, on citrus canker by sanitation, on corn leaf blights, stalk rot, and seedling blight by plant in a warm soil, on cotton for angular leaf spot by crop rotation and charcoal rot by irrigation, and Texas root rot by acidifying the soil, on elm for Dutch elm disease by sanitation, on flax for rust with sanitation, on oats for halo blight by crop rotation, on onion for downy mildew by crop rotation and white rot by irrigation, on pea for root rot by crop rotation, on pepper for mosaic by barrier crops such as corn, on pine for blister rusts to isolate from primary hosts and root diseases by ensuring infection by mycorrhizae, and brown spot by burning long leaved pine, on potato for scab by crop rotation and acidify the soil, on rice for blast by sanitation, on rubber for root rots by soil amendment, on rye for ergot by crop rotation and sanitation, on sugar beet for leafspot by wide spacing and crop rotation, on sugarcane for ratoon slanting by thermotherapy, on tobacco for mosaic by sanitation, and black shank by crop rotation, and for bacterial wilt by crop rotation, for vegetables in general for cottony rot by flooding, on wheat for eyespot by crop rotation, for leaf blotch by crop rotation and sanitation, on take-all by crop rotation, and seedling blight by plant in a cool soil, there are resistant varieties for banana Panama disease, barley for net blotch and covered smut, on bean for anthracnose and rust, on cabbage for wilts and downy mildew, on citrus for foot rot, on clover for scorch downy mildew and bud rot, on coconut for lethal yellowing, on cotton for Fusarium wilt and

angular leaf spot, on cucumber for scab and wilt, on cucurbits for wilts, downy and powder mildews, on flax for rust, on oat for Victoria blight, on peanut for rosette viral disease, on potato for ring spot, scab, late blight, on rice for blast, brown spot, root rot, Gibberella ‘bakanae’ disease, on rubber for south American leaf blight, on sugar beet for leaf spot, on sugar cane for lead scald and mosaic, on tobacco for black shank, black root rot, and bacterial wilt, on tomato for Fusarium wilt, on wheat for stem rust, yellow rust, brown rust, bunt, loose smut, and powedery mildew.