This fully updated second edition covers all aspects of practical plant nematology in subtropical and tropical agriculture. It covers the major food and cash crops including; rice, cereals, solanum and sweet potatoes and other root and tuber crops, food legumes, vegetables, peanut, citrus, tree and fruit crops, coconut and other palms, coffee, cocoa, tea, bananas, sugarcane, tobacco, pineapple, cotton, other tropical fibres, spices, condiments and medicinal plants. It provides practical guidance on methods of extraction, processing and diagnosing of different plant and soil nematodes and on integrated pestmanagement.

Table of Contents:
1: Foreword 2: Preface to 1st Edition, J N Sasser 3: Reflections on Nematology in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture, M Luc, J Bridge and R A Sikora 4: Identification, Morphology and Biology of Plant Parasitic Nematodes, D J Hunt, CABI Bioscience, Egham, UK, M Luc, and R H Manzanilla-López, Rothamsted Research, UK 5: Methods for Extraction, Processing and Detection of Plant & Soil Nematodes, D Hooper, Lymington, UK, J Hallmann, Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture & Forestry Nematology, Germany, & S Subottin, Russian Academy of Sciences 6: Nematode Parasites of Rice, J Bridge, R A Plowright, Soil Association, UK, and D Peng, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China 7: Nematode Parasites of Cereals, A H McDonald, ARC-Grain Crops Institute, Republic of South Africa, and J M Nicol, International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center, Turkey 8: Nematode Parasites of Solanum Potato, M L Scurrah, Lima, Peru, B Niere, Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Germany, and J Bridge 9: Nematode Parasites of Tropical Root and Tuber Crops, J Bridge, D L Coyne, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria, and C K Kwoseh, University of Science and Technology, Ghana 10: Nematode Parasites of Food Legumes, R A Sikora, N Greco, CNR Istituto per la Protezione delle Piante, Italy, and J F V Silva, Embrapa, Brazil 11: Nematode Parasites of Vegetables, R A Sikora, and E Fernández, Instituto de Investigaciones de Sanidad Vegetal, Cuba 12: Nematode Parasites of Peanut, D W Dickson, University of Florida, USA, N A Minton, US Department of Agriculture, and D De Waele, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 13: Nematode Parasites of Citrus, L W Duncan, University of Florida, USA 14: Nematode Parasites of Subtropical and Tropical Tree and Fruit Crops, F E El-Borai, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel, and L W Duncan 15: Nematode Parasites of Coconut & other Palms, R Griffith, Natural Resource Development Institute, West Indies, R Giblin-Davis, University of Florida, USA, P Koshy & V Sosamma, Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, India 16: Nematode Parasites of Coffee and Cocoa, V P Campos, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil, and L Villain, CIRAD TA, France 17: Nematode Parasites of Tea, N C Gnanapragasam, Hatton, Sri Lanka, and K M Mohotti, Tea Research Institute of Sri Lanka 18: Nematode Parasites of Bananas and Plantains, S Gowen, University of Reading, UK, P Quénéhervé, Pôle de Recherche Agronomique de la Martinique, France, & R Fogain, Centre Africain de Recherche sur Bananiers et Plantains, Cameroon 19: Nematode Parasites of Sugarcane, P Cadet, Institute de Recherche pour le Dévelopment, France and V W Spaull, South African Sugar Association Experiment Station 20: Nematode Parasites of Tobacco, C S Johnson, Southern Piedmont AREC, USA, J Way, Tobacco Research Board, Zimbabwe, and K R Barker, North Carolina State University, USA 21: Nematode Parasites of Pineapple, B S Sipes, University of Hawaii, USA, E P Caswell-Chen, University of California, Davis, J-L Sarah, CIRAD/UMR BGPI, France, and W J Apt 22: Nematode Parasites of Cotton and other Tropical Fibre Crops, J L Starr, Texas A & M University, USA, R G Carneiro and O Ruano, Instituto Agronômico do Paraná, Brasil 23: Nematode Parasites of Spices, Condiments and Medicinal Plants, P K Koshy, R Pandey, Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, India, and S J Eapen, Indian Institute of Spices Research, India 24: Management Practices: An Overview of Integrated Nematode Management Technologies, R A Sikora, J Bridge and J L Starr 25: Plate Section 26: Appendix A: Nematicides, R A Sikora 27: Appendix B: Nematode Genera and Species, M Luc"