Abaca Virus Diseases: Epidemics and Control discusses the dynamics of abaca virus diseases, reviews integrated disease management options, and provides sustainable and holistic strategies to effectively further control and manage abaca virus diseases. A product of comprehensive research, analysis, and assembly of information and literature on abaca virus epidemiology as well as abaca virus control and management from various sources over the last one hundred years, the book is a thorough, compelling, and inspiring addition to the available literature on Philippine abaca that abaca stakeholders and the general public will find very useful.

                                                                                —From the Foreword by UPLB Chancellor Jose V. Camacho Jr.

Abaca Virus Diseases: Epidemics and Control is an excellent resource on the various available methods developed to protect and enhance our country’s abaca—from quarantine and control of abaca insect vectors to breeding abaca disease-resistant varieties. The epidemiology of the abaca bunchy top virus and the abaca mosaic virus are also discussed in depth, providing readers maps, models, and simulation outbreaks of the diseases’ effects on our country’s abaca supply and industry.

                                                   —From the Foreword by former UPLB Chancellor Fernando C. Sanchez Jr.