Fundamentals of Plant Pathology

ISBN-10
0716715058
ISBN-13
9780716715054
Category
Plant diseases
Pages
432
Language
English
Published
1984
Publisher
W H Freeman & Company
Authors
Daniel Altman Roberts, Carl William Boothroyd

Description

Disease in plants; Plant pathology and the diseased plant; Prologue to part I: the nature and consequences of disease in plants; An introduction to the principles of plant pathology; Morphological symptoms of disease in plants; Infectious agents of disease in plants; Viruses and viroids as plant pathogens; Plant-pathogenic prokaryotes; Plant-pathogenic fungi, algae, and seed plants; Plant-pathogenic protozoans, nematodes, and insects; Cyclic events that culminate in plant disease; Production and dispersal of the inocula of plant pathogens, Penetration of plants by pathogens; Infection and disease in plants; Controlling disease in populations of plants; The epidemiology of plant diseases; Plant-disease control by reducing amounts of inocula; Plant-disease control by reducing rates of disease development; Epilogue to part I: plant pathology as a science of plant-pest control; Diseases of plants; Prolegue to part II: how diseases disrupt the vital functions of plants; Rots of plant products; Blights of seedlings; Rots of the roots of plants in the field; Bacterial and fungal gall diseases of plants; Smut fungi and plant diseases they cause; Nematode-induced diseases of plants; Vascular-wilt diseases in plants; Bacterial spots and blights of foliage; Fungal spots and blights of foliage; Downy-mildew fungi and plant diseases they cause; Powdery-mildew fungi and plant diseases they cause; Rust fungi and plant diseases they cause; Plant diseases caused by viruses and mycoplasmalike organisms; Plant diseases with noninfectious causes; Epilogue to part II: chronology and practice of plant-disease control; Techniques for diagnosis of plant diseases; Use of the literature of plant pathology.

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