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Diseases of Hydrangea

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Handbook of Florists' Crops Diseases

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Abstract

Hydrangea, a native to Asia and America, is a popular ornamental plant due to its interesting large, showy flowers with different colors and inflorescence forms. Many hydrangea species are often used to design landscapes and gardens. In greenhouses, nurseries, and landscapes, hydrangea production and values are affected by fungal, bacterial, and viral diseases. In this chapter, the biology of pathogens, development of diseases, and strategies for their control of common diseases of hydrangea were described.

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 123 Huntington St., New Haven, CT, 06511, USA

    Yonghao Li

  2. Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Tennessee State University, 3500 John A Merritt Blvd, Nashville, TN, 37209, USA

    Margaret T. Mmbaga, Jacqueline Joshua, Emily Rotich & Lipi Parikh

  3. Department of Forest Protection, Northeast Forestry University, 26 Hexing Rd, Harbin, China, 150040

    Boru Zhou

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Li, Y., Mmbaga, M.T., Zhou, B., Joshua, J., Rotich, E., Parikh, L. (2016). Diseases of Hydrangea . In: McGovern, R., Elmer, W. (eds) Handbook of Florists' Crops Diseases. Handbook of Plant Disease Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32374-9_36-1

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