Plant Pathology and Disease Management: Principles and Practices [Hardcover]

This book introduces the nature, causes and impact of plant diseases. It briefly describes the history of plant pathology as a scientific discipline and introduces the disease cycle as the key tool for understanding disease development and devising appropriate management strategies.

This book introduces the nature, causes and impact of plant diseases. It briefly describes the history of plant pathology as a scientific discipline and introduces the disease cycle as the key tool for understanding disease development and devising appropriate management strategies.

It addresses the mechanisms of pathogenicity and immunity. It explores the biology of the interactions between plants and plant pathogens from the cellular level to the population level, with the chapter addressing epidemiology. The book then concerns the approaches we can take to alleviate the effects of plant pathogens.

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Preface

About the Authors

1 Introduction

2 History of Plant Pathology

3 Symptoms of Plant Diseases

4 Characters and Structures of Fungi and Related Organisms

5 Asexual Reproduction in Fungi and Chromista

6 Sexual Reproduction in Fungi and Chromista

7 Taxonomy of Plant Pathogenic Fungi and related Eukarya

8 Protozoa

9 Chromista

10 Fungi: Chitridiomycota

11 Fungi: Zygomycota

12 Fungi: Ascomycota

13 Fungi: Basidiomycota

14 Bacteria

15 Mollicutes

16 Virus

17 Viroids

18 Phanerogamic Parasites

19 Algal Plant Parasites

20 Pathogenesis - Infection Process

21 Pathogeneslˆ