"On 24 August 1987, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, issued a Press Notice announcing the first recorded occurrence in the United Kingdom of the sugar beet disease, rhizomania...By chance, this discovery in Britain coincided with an International Symposium on Viruses with Fungal Vectors, which was held at St. Andrews University on 25-27 August 1987."-pref.

"This book is...based on a conference organized jointly by the Association of Applied Biologists and the British Society for Plant Pathology."

At head of title: Association of Applied Biologists.

Includes bibliographical references.